The Real Reason Schools Give Kids Summers Off - Cheddar Explains - YouTube
The problem with post-pandemic work · Recode
Back to the Office: What Businesses Should Know About Employees’ Views on the Return to In-Person Work - Morning Consult
Assessment of Prolonged Physiological and Behavioral Changes Associated With COVID-19 Infection | Infectious Diseases | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network
This cohort study examines the duration and variation of recovery among COVID-19–positive verses COVID-19–negative individuals.
The world is worried about the Delta virus variant. Studies show vaccines are effective against it.
Israel reported that the Pfizer vaccine was 64 percent effective against the Delta variant. Other studies suggest a higher rate.
5 Psychological Benefits of Walking
Recently, I had gone through a bout of stress - I had taken on too much work, injured my back, and was generally feeling out of touch with myself. I’ll admit that there were times when I was preaching the importance of self-care to a crowd...in the middle of a 60-hour work week. And the clumps
What Is Vulvodynia, a Little-Known Chronic Pain Condition
I have the little-known gynaecological condition, and no one can help me.
Mad Men. Furious Women.
Far from dissipating over the last decade, misogyny in the ad industry has simply mutated into something insidious, invisible, lurking in the shadows. It’s time to fire up the floodlights.
'Some Hope Is Better Than Having No Hope' · The New York Times
Meal kit sales will sharply decelerate this year, report predicts
Coresight Research expects industry growth to slow from 70% in 2020 to roughly 18% in 2021 as pandemic-fueled interest wears off.
Beware Of 'Shrinkflation,' Inflation's Devious Cousin
Products are shrinking. Only some people are noticing.
Wildlife, air quality at risk as Great Salt Lake nears low
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The silvery blue waters of the Great Salt Lake sprawl across the Utah desert, having covered an area nearly the size of Delaware for much of history. For years, though, the largest natural lake west of the Mississippi River has been shrinking.
June brings jump in jobs, pickup in pay
It comes even as businesses say they can’t find workers.
Calculated Risk: Denver Real Estate in June: Sales Down 1% YoY, Active Inventory Down 51% YoY
Sales slumped in April and May 2020, so the year-over-year (YoY) increases were large for the previous two months. However, in June 2020, ...
Shorter working week trial in Iceland hailed as an ‘overwhelming success’
A long-running trial of a shorter working week in Iceland has been hailed an "overwhelming success."
Opinion | Generation labels mean nothing. It’s time to retire them.
Categories such as "baby boomers" and "Millennials" do nothing to capture social change.
Massive DNA study finds rare gene variants that protect against
People with a disrupted GPR75 gene weighed less and were less likely to be obese
The economic value of targeting aging | Nature Aging
An economic analysis suggests that targeting aging offers potentially larger economic gains than eradicating individual diseases. Slowing aging to increase life expectancy by 1 year is worth US$38 trillion, and by 10 years, US$367 trillion.
The Labor Market May Be Tighter than the Level of Employment Suggests
With payroll employment remaining well below its prior peak, slow job growth would typically suggest weak demand for labor from firms and limited employment opportunities for job seekers. Current conditions in the labor market, however, may be far from typical.
Container Shipping Prices Skyrocket as Rush to Move Goods Picks Up
Prices to ship containers from Asia to the U.S. and Europe are rising at a historic pace as cargo owners bid up rates in a search for ocean transportation capacity that shipping industry executives expect to remain tight for the rest of the year.
Climate change: Planting extra trees will boost rainfall across Europe
Converting agricultural land to forestry would boost summer rains by 7.6% on average, a study finds.
The Gender Divide in Transport Is Starting to Crumble
Cities across Europe are working to unwind a focus on the traditional male commuter to more inclusive forms of mobility.
In crosshairs of ransomware crooks, cyber insurers struggle
BOSTON (AP) — In the past few weeks, ransomware criminals claimed as trophies at least three North American insurance brokerages that offer policies to help others survive the very network-paralyzing, data-pilfering extortion attacks they themselves apparently suffered.
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Knowing What Your Co-Worker Makes Doesn’t Close the Pay Gap
Salary transparency is intended to help address inequities. But making the number public doesn’t seem to move the needle.
Opinion | 7 Charts That Explain the Economic Recovery So Far
Friday's jobs report, and a slew of other data, shows going big and going early works.
Assessing the Association Between Social Gatherings and COVID-19 Risk Using Birthdays | Public Health | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network
This cross-sectional study uses administrative health care data on 2.9 million households from the first 45 weeks of 2020 to assess the association between social gatherings and SARS-CoV-2 transmission by studying whether COVID-19 rates increase after birthdays in a household.
Birthday Parties as Virus Vector
Just how much Covid was spreading behind closed doors last year? Quite a lot, as a new study with a simple yet creative approach found out.
Calculated Risk: Homebuilder Comments in June: “It’s not fun to be a builder anymore.”
Some twitter comments from Rick Palacios Jr. , Director of Research at John Burns Real Estate Consulting: Analyzing June new home sales & pr...
Calculated Risk: Housing Inventory July 5th Update: Inventory Increased Week-over-week
Tracking existing home inventory will be very important this year . Click on graph for larger image in graph gallery. This inventory gra...