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The Mirage hotel in Las Vegas
Success

Las Vegas’ legendary Mirage casino is closing to make room for a 700-foot tall Hard Rock hotel that’s shaped like a guitar

By The Associated Press and Rio Yamat
May 16, 2024
Duolingo cofounder and CTO Severin Hacker.
Leadership

Language learning app Duolingo is taking on music and math lessons

By
May 10, 2024
Bettany Hughes, historian and broadcaster
Lifestyle

Never apologize for double-packing and always buy a scarf and a pot of honey – 8 travel hacks from historian Bettany Hughes

By Mark Ellwood and Bloomberg
April 6, 2024
Meet the ‘Witch of Wall Street,’ a black-clad pioneering value investor who became the world’s richest woman—but is wrongly remembered as a cheapskate
Finance

Meet the ‘Witch of Wall Street,’ a black-clad pioneering value investor who became the world’s richest woman—but is wrongly remembered as a cheapskate

By
March 17, 2024
Image of the tea clipper Cutty Sark in Greenwich, England.
Newsletters

What the latest flurry of AI news has in common with the Great Tea Race

By
February 20, 2024
Why America should be celebrating entrepreneurs, not presidents
Commentary

Why America should be celebrating entrepreneurs, not presidents

By Jonathan Bean and Blaine McCormick
February 19, 2024
250 years after the Boston Tea Party, America still struggles to navigate its complex relationship with tax
Commentary

250 years after the Boston Tea Party, America still struggles to navigate its complex relationship with tax

By
December 15, 2023
Research shows that grandparents are great personal finance teachers. Here’s what my poppa who became an accountant during the Great Depression tried to teach me about money
Commentary

Research shows that grandparents are great personal finance teachers. Here’s what my poppa who became an accountant during the Great Depression tried to teach me about money

By
November 23, 2023
George Takei's "My Lost Freedom"
Success

George Takei is releasing ‘My Lost Freedom,’ a picture book about when the government sent his family to an internment camp

By
October 4, 2023
Men thinking about Roman Empire
Commentary

Men can’t stop thinking about the Roman Empire. It’s because of the masculinity polycrisis

By
September 30, 2023
The psychology behind some men’s obsession with the Roman Empire, according to these brain experts
Life

The psychology behind some men’s obsession with the Roman Empire, according to these brain experts

By
September 23, 2023
Warehouse worker
Success

The idea of a meaningful job, or a ‘calling,’ was invented by Christian reformers 500 years ago, religion professor says

By Garrett Potts and The Conversation
September 12, 2023
Prof. Yuval Noah Harari, speaks during a demonstration in Tel Aviv.
Tech

‘Sapiens’ author says AI is an alien threat that could wipe us out: ‘Instead of coming from outer space, it’s coming from California’

By
September 12, 2023
A new hotel model turns ghost towns from Provence to Colorado into luxe resorts
Magazine

A new hotel model turns ghost towns from Provence to Colorado into luxe resorts

By
August 8, 2023
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Politics

The author of ‘Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect’ explains why American culture fixates more on him than the horror of Hiroshima

By Charles Thorpe and The Conversation
August 1, 2023

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