Digital Gems

Characteristics like the kinds of households that we live in can influence, our health, or even the gender of our children can affect our investing decisions.

Cryptocurrency users lost at least $7.7 billion to scams in 2021, an 81% over 2020

Researchers projected that in 35 to 60 years, the Mountain West will be nearly snowless for years at a time if worldwide greenhouse gas emissions are not rapidly reduced. The Mountain West has already lost 20% of its snowpack since the 1950s and could lose another 50% by the end of this century.

The US is averaging nearly 120,000 new Covid-19 cases a day, which is a 40% increase from last month, and deaths have increased 12% over November.

Women undergoing common elective or emergency surgeries had a 15% higher chance of dying or experiencing a major complication within 30 days than when male surgeon performed the surgery compared to when a female surgeon did.

Learn abouot upbringing of Ayn Rand, the Russian American philosopher and writer that described selfishness a virtue and capitalism as the ideal system.

Self-identified Christians make up 63% of the U.S. population in 2021, down from 75% a decade ago.

The agency’s advisers cited concerns about the increased incidence of a rare but potentially serious blood clotting condition among those who received the company’s shot.

With the future of office work deeply uncertain, the debate has sharpened about what downtowns should be.

Volume 45, Number 13 July 7, 2021 By Deborah J. Cloutier, CRE Photo: fokke baarssen/Shutterstock.com ESG at a Tipping Point was listed as the #3 issue in the 2021-22 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. Introduction Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) has reached a tipping point. In a 2019 McKinsey …

Venture capital investments in South Florida rocketed higher in the second quarter of 2021. In the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro area, companies raised $831.4 million, a 271% increase in dollar value over the first quarter, according to  the Q2 Venture Monitor report. Yet, that Q2 haul was across 50 deals, down from 52 in Q1.

Swimply, an online platform for renting private pools, reports a surge in demand amid the pandemic and rising costs for pool chemicals.

Having been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, women have found alternate financial success by hosting on Airbnb.

Compared with homes in primarily white neighborhoods, homes in primarily Black areas have consistently been undervalued by tens of thousands of dollars over the last decade, after accounting for fundamental factors that contribute to home values SEATTLE , April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- (NASDAQ:

Americans got a stark warning from the government this week: Expect higher heating bills this winter. Here is what you can do to contain costs.

The historian Guillaume Blanc discusses the notion of “green colonialism” at the root of conservation policies in Africa.

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Single-family homes represented a record 74% of investor purchases. Low-priced properties made up 36% of purchases, an all-time low.

You know the saying: “There are no shortcuts in life.” What if that saying is just wrong? In his new book Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life, the mathematician Marcus du Sautoy argues that shortcuts can be applied to practically anything: music, psychotherapy, even politics.

Elizabeth Hargrave’s Wingspan might also transform the way you think about games—and art.