Digital Gems

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

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.

Coresight Research expects industry growth to slow from 70% in 2020 to roughly 18% in 2021 as pandemic-fueled interest wears off.

Products are shrinking. Only some people are noticing.

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.

It comes even as businesses say they can’t find workers.

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, ...

A long-running trial of a shorter working week in Iceland has been hailed an "overwhelming success."

Categories such as "baby boomers" and "Millennials" do nothing to capture social change.

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.

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.

Converting agricultural land to forestry would boost summer rains by 7.6% on average, a study finds.

Cities across Europe are working to unwind a focus on the traditional male commuter to more inclusive forms of mobility.

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.

Salary transparency is intended to help address inequities. But making the number public doesn’t seem to move the needle.

Friday's jobs report, and a slew of other data, shows going big and going early works.

Some twitter comments from Rick Palacios Jr. , Director of Research at John Burns Real Estate Consulting: Analyzing June new home sales & pr...

Tracking existing home inventory will be very important this year . Click on graph for larger image in graph gallery. This inventory gra...

Notes: This CoreLogic House Price Index report is for May . The recent Case-Shiller index release was for April. The CoreLogic HPI is a th...

iss065e083929 (June 1, 2021) --- This long exposure photograph, taken from the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above the Democratic Republic of Congo, reveals city lights on the African continent, Earth's atmospheric glow and star trails.

About two-thirds of Americans (65%) say their best guess is that intelligent life exists on other planets.

The text and figures of this short paper are below, and it’s also available as a PDF on SocArXiv, in more citable form. The Stata code and other materials are up as well, here. It’s pre…