Digital Gems

Meet the executives who burn millions daily and enrich themselves while creating no real value

Cryptocurrency investors are beginning to think about the afterlife of their digital assets — and a burgeoning industry awaits them.

The aurora borealis, or northern lights, could easily be described as Earth's greatest light show. A phenomenon that's exclusive to the higher latitudes, has had scientists in awe and wonder for centuries. The theory of how the aurora is created has been speculated but never proven, until now.

Black Knight released their Mortgage Monitor report for April today. According to Black Knight, 4.66% of mortgage were delinquent in April...

Reports of a decline in male fertility rely on flawed assumptions, a new study contends.

The ebbing of the pandemic has brought price increases, supply bottlenecks and labor shortages. Key indicators will show whether it’s just a stage.

“Employers are becoming much more cognizant that yes, it’s about money, but also about quality of life.”

Rizky Eka Valdano spent years building up his travel business, but the Covid-19 pandemic destroyed it in 10 months, echoing a plight that has played out across the developing world.

Job seekers are hesitating to relocate, a trend accelerated by the pandemic but also related to family and financial factors.

ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

See the 922 faces of power behind Hollywood, the justice system, big businesses and more; 180 of them identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, multiracial or otherwise a person of color.

At some top companies, Asian Americans are overrepresented in midlevel roles and underrepresented in leadership. The root of this workplace inequality could stem from the all-too-common experience of being confused for someone else.

Generally lost in the national narrative about corporate diversity is a discussion of the issues facing Asian Americans. Lost In Aggregation: The Asian Reflection in the Glass Ceiling report takes a closer analysis of U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) workplace data sets disaggrega

It’s a problem in a number of sectors, from tech and finance to law and government.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Just a year ago, the financial future looked bleak for state governments as governors and lawmakers scrambled to cut spending amid the coronavirus recession that was projected to pummel revenue.

Seeking more than representation, a critic tries to make sense of a fragmented, disparate musical tradition

Psychotherapist April Preston speaks with Tonya Mosley of NPR's Here and Now about what racial trauma is, how it can be passed down, and how to address it.

Air travel has been in existence for over one hundred years. Since its inception, thousands of airports runways have been built – each one of them designed site specifically, and according to landscape and natural conditions.

Street networks may be planned according to clear organizing principles or they may evolve organically through accretion, but their configurations and orientations help define a city’s spatial logic and order. Measures of entropy reveal a city’s streets’ order and disorder. Past studies have explored individual cases of orientation and entropy, but little is known about broader patterns and trends worldwide. This study examines street network orientation, configuration, and entropy in 100 cities around the world using OpenStreetMap data and OSMnx. It measures the entropy of street bearings in weighted and unweighted network models, along with each city’s typical street segment length, average circuity, average node degree, and the network’s proportions of four-way intersections and dead-ends. It also develops a new indicator of orientation-order that quantifies how a city’s street network follows the geometric ordering logic of a single grid. A cluster analysis is performed to explore similarities and differences among these study sites in multiple dimensions. Significant statistical relationships exist between city orientation-order and other indicators of spatial order, including street circuity and measures of connectedness. On average, US/Canadian study sites are far more grid-like than those elsewhere, exhibiting less entropy and circuity. These indicators, taken in concert, help reveal the extent and nuance of the grid. These methods demonstrate automatic, scalable, reproducible tools to empirically measure and visualize city spatial order, illustrating complex urban transportation system patterns and configurations around the world.

The drive to get people back into offices is clashing with workers who’ve embraced remote work as the new normal.

FlexJobs surveyed over 2,100 people who worked remotely during the pandemic about various remote work topics. Here's what the stats say!