On September 26, Target announced it was closing nine stores "because theft and organized retail crime are…contributing to unsustainable business performance." Target said that before making the decision to shutter the stores, it had "invested heavily in strategies to prevent and stop theft and organized retail crime." But ultimately, Target claimed, those efforts failed to make those stores "successful."
Meanwhile… Taco Bell Haircut | Lil Wayne’s Wax Figure | Pepper X | NYC Not the Rattiest City
Meanwhile… A Taco Bell employee was spotted getting a haircut at work, rapper Lil Wayne’s wax figure is terrifying, Pepper X is the world’s hottest chili pepper, and New York City has fewer rats than LA and Chicago.#Colbert #Comedy #MeanwhileSubscribe To "The Late Show" Channel: http://bit.ly/ColbertYouTubeWatch full episodes of "The Late Show": http://bit.ly/1Puei40Listen to "The Late Show Pod Show" podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/Awagtx95?sid=ytLike "The Late Show" on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1df139YFollow "The Late Show" on X: http://bit.ly/1dMzZzGFollow "The Late Show" on Instagram: http://bit.ly/29wfREjWatch The Late Show with Stephen Colbert weeknights at 11:35 PM ET/10:35 PM CT. Only on CBS.---Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT, the #1 show in late night, where he talks with an eclectic mix of guests about what is new and relevant in the worlds of politics, entertainment, business, music, technology and more. Featuring bandleader Louis Cato and “THE LATE SHOW band,” the Peabody Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated show is broadcast from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater. Stephen Colbert took over as host, executive producer and writer of THE LATE SHOW on Sept. 8, 2015.
“In 2000, private-equity firms managed about 4 percent of total U.S. corporate equity. By 2021, that number was closer to 20 percent. In other words, private equity has been growing nearly five times faster than the U.S. economy as a whole.” The Atlantic (Gift Article): The Secretive Industry Devouring the U.S. Economy.
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Most of us would sacrifice one person to save five. It’s a pretty straightforward bit of moral math. But if we have to actually kill that person ourselves, the math gets fuzzy. That’s the lesson of the classic Trolley Problem, a moral puzzle that fried our brains in an episode we did almost 20 years ago, then updated again in 2017. Historically, the questions posed by The Trolley Problem are great for thought experimentation and conversations at a certain kind of cocktail party. Now, new technologies are forcing that moral quandary out of our philosophy departments and onto our streets. So today, we revisit the Trolley Problem and wonder how a two-ton hunk of speeding metal will make moral calculations about life and death that still baffle its creators. Special thanks to Iyad Rahwan, Edmond Awad and Sydney Levine from the Moral Machine group at MIT. Also thanks to Fiery Cushman, Matthew DeBord, Sertac Karaman, Martine Powers, Xin Xiang, and Roborace for all of their help. Thanks to the CUNY Graduate School…
Going Deep with Dan Harris — Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Dan Harris is a smart, hungry skeptic looking for ideas you can count on in the worst of times, like say when you have a panic attack while you’re anchoring the news for ABC. He’s been thinking out loud with some very wise people for many years now through books and a podcast called 10% Happier that I find invaluable. Some topics we break open are uncertainty, humility and practices to keep us connected. Thanks to our many friends at the Aspen Ideas Festival for making this conversation possible. This was recorded before the SAG-AFTRA strike.
In the late nineteenth century, many workers labored 7 days a week, sometimes up to a grueling 100 hours in poor conditions.Workers in the mining, printing, and railroad industries eventually won 8-hour workdays.Then came Frances Perkins, and with her, the 40-hour work week.
Have you ever set a goal and had a really difficult time sticking to it? Maybe you decide you want to save more money, or go to the gym more often. This week on the show, psychologist Hal Hershfield explains why it can be difficult to set our “future selves” up for success. Plus, he shares tools to help us make commitments that will benefit us in the years to come.
Think about how often you hold back honest opinions of someone else because you don’t want to hurt their feelings. But there are times when this well-intended restraint can be a mistake. This week, in the second part of our series on failure and feedback, psychologist Taya Cohen helps us understand when — and how — to be honest.
The Dark Side of Being Obsessed With Productivity — Plain English with Derek Thompson
“Productivity is a trap. Nobody in the history of humanity has ever achieved work-life balance. The real problem isn’t our limited time. The real problem—or so I hope to convince you—is that we’ve unwittingly inherited, and feel pressured to live by, a troublesome set of ideas about how to use our limited time, all of which are pretty much guaranteed to make things worse.” That’s how Oliver Burkeman, the author of ‘Four Thousand Weeks,’ explains our relationship to happiness and time. In this episode, he and Derek talk about his philosophy, the downside of constantly living for some future achievement, goals versus habits, and making peace with our finitude. Host: Derek Thompson Guest: Oliver Burkeman Producer: Devon Manze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Commentary: The tech industry's most interesting ideas always show up at the annual confab in Las Vegas, but sometimes we have to ask what the heck they were thinking.
Sustainable Development Goals explained with 3 useful tips | Environment SDG Sustainability
In this whiteboard animation, I explain how the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are interconnected (the SDG wedding cake) and how you can use them to understand how sustainable your country or your business is.
0:00 Introduction
0:41 The SDG wedding cake
3:04 Which country is more sustainable?
5:02 Using the SDGs for your business
6:07 Sponsor & Endcard
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Triple bottom line: https://youtu.be/2f5m-jBf81Q
https://dashboards.sdgindex.org/
Ecological & social sustainability principles: https://youtu.be/BO9_hQO9nTo and https://youtu.be/o6lSuwJw0pk
https://futurefitbusiness.org/sdgs/
Coronavirus & Environment: https://youtu.be/R1h1L6vj3BI
A simple, yet comprehensive, sustainability self-assessment tool that also generates company scores on the SDGs: open-source 3-in-1 Sustainability Assessment Toolkit: https://sustainabilityadvantage.com/frameworks/science-based-reporting-tools/
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https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2016-06-14-how-food-connects-all-the-sdgs.html
https://dashboards.sdgindex.org/
https://youtu.be/tah8QlhQLeQ
Cracking/Crunching sound by InspectorJ on Freesound.org
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Music/guitar: Alexandre Magnin inspired by Paul Davids’ finger picking https://youtu.be/m6b371mNkCw
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Unionization efforts are shaking up the gaming industry — Marketplace Tech
Unions have come to the video game industry. They started small at just one indie developer about a year ago, then those efforts started to spread. Workers at some of the biggest names in the business have started organizing — at Activision Blizzard and recently at ZeniMax, a company owned by Microsoft. This sudden upswell is shaking up an industry that has long been known for grueling hours, low pay and a workforce that is not especially diverse. So how did the union movement go from 0 to 60, and where is it headed from here? Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Nicole Carpenter, a senior reporter for Polygon, a gaming and entertainment news site. She recently wrote an explainer about unions in the industry. She said a turning point came in 2021 when California sued Activision for an alleged pattern of sexual harassment and discrimination, which set off a chain of investigations and lawsuits that brought the problems of the industry into the public eye.