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Women now outnumber Men at work but not because Men are getting Fired
For eight straight months, women have outnumbered men in the US workforce — the longest such stretch since 2010. But the reason is the opposite of what it was b

The Job market where nobody hires and nobody leaves
A $150-an-hour remote assistant job drew 2,000 applicants in days. That's not a fluke — it's the shape of a labor market economists now call "low-hire, low-fire

This startup is trying to make it rain for $100 million
A three-year-old company just raised $100 million to fly drones into clouds and squeeze rain out of them. Rainmaker says its Alaska tests pulled 19 million gall

A Dead Star Is Doing Something Physics Can't Explain
730 light-years away, the burnt-out core of a dead star is blasting a shock wave across space — a structure it has no known way of producing. No disk to feed it

A Daughter changes how a Man runs a Company
Economists found something unsettlingly specific in Danish payroll data: when a male manager has his first daughter, the women who work for him start getting hi

A strong El Niño actually means fewer Atlantic hurricanes, but the Pacific has been extra stormy
It's late September, peak hurricane season, and the Atlantic hasn't produced a single hurricane — something that hasn't happened in over a century. Meanwhile th

Do you know that Walter White and Jesse Pinkman served alcohol at Downtown Disney?
Yes, really. Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, who played Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad, were spotted behind a bar at the “happiest place on Earth

AI won a Nobel but still can't prescribe you anything
A recent NBC News/Decision Desk poll found 70% of US adults are more worried than excited about AI, and it polls badly in nearly every corner of life — with one

Spotify just handed you full control of its algorithm
Spotify recommendation engine used to be a mystery box; it would follow your choices of music and recommend the next one for you automatically without any input

The SIP Generation Is About to Meet Its First Real Bear Market
A whole cohort of Indian investors started investing after 2020 and has never seen a sustained fall. What they do in the first bad quarter matters far more to t
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