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Ox Delivers' Flatpack EV Truck Creates Prosperity in Africa - Core77
How do you create wealth? One answer is by enabling trade. British company Ox Delivers observed that the Global South is hamstrung in this regard; entrepreneurial individuals are hampered by unreliable transportation networks, and without an efficient way to ship goods, prosperity through trade is impossible. The company thus designed
OX Delivers | Supercharging Trade for the Global South
Slow, expensive, and unreliable transport is stifling trade in the Global South. OX Delivers is removing these barriers with a complete transport & trade solution to unlock opportunity and create wealth.
The Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Under owner Elon Musk, the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has become a hotbed of white supremacist and neo-Nazi content. A recent
How Silicon Valley is disrupting democracy
Two books explore the price we’ve paid in handing over unprecedented power to Big Tech—and explain why it’s imperative we start taking it back.
The New Jersey Drone Mystery May Not Actually Be That Mysterious
A flurry of drone sightings across New Jersey and New York has sparked national intrigue and US government responses. But experts are pouring cold water on America’s hottest new conspiracy theory.
Opinion | Three Columnists Wrestle With the Lionizing of Luigi Mangione
What other kind of company inspires this sort of hatred?
The Age When 17 Self-Made Billionaires Earned Their First Million
Not all of them found success as quickly as Mark Zuckerberg, who became a millionaire at 22.
The Reason Why This U.S. Navy Destroyer Flies a Pirate Flag
You usually don't see warships rocking the Jolly Roger.
The tax penalty on married women hiding in plain sight
Millions would be better off if the US changed its joint filing system.
Crypto’s Legacy Is Finally Clear
An anti-establishment technology for an anti-establishment age
Decivilization May Already Be Under Way
The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed.
How philosopher Shannon Vallor delivered the year's best critique of AI
The author of 'The AI Mirror' worries about what we're doing to our moral muscles as we grow more reliant on machines.
The Day I Turned Against DEI Programs
Sometimes, the quickest way to kill something is to give it a name
The Great Grocery Squeeze
How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert
Zizek Gets a Business Loan
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
Skeptical of God-Kings
The political designation “the left” originated during the French Revolution in 1789. In the National Assembly, those who opposed the king’s veto and supported change sat on the l…
Why Are Huge Tech Companies Getting Into the Book Business?
Do they want to help writers or destroy them?
Ambos Nogales - Wikipedia
Ambos Nogales refers to the two cities of Nogales, Arizona, United States, and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. They lie 60 miles directly south of Tucson, Arizona, divided by the Mexico–United States barrier. Though divided by the border between their respective nation states, the two municipalities have historically shared a sense of community alluded to in their description as "Ambos Nogales," as well as other sayings and phrases alluding to this camaraderie. The motto of Nogales, Sonora, is Juntos por amor a Nogales, meaning "United by the love of Nogales". Ambos Nogales has become a subject of anthropological and archaeological research due to the ways in which the material presence of the border wall has impacted the lives of those living in these cities. Investigation of community, migration, immigration, drug trafficking, gang violence, and all of the activities associated with these has occurred at Ambos Nogales due to its unique identity and geographic position.
Do G-Rated Films Even Make Sense Anymore?
Based on the sharp decline of the G rating, apparently not. Learn why Hollywood seems to have left the general rating designation behind.
State of the U.S. Health Care Workforce, 2023 - state-of-the-health-workforce-report-2023.pdf
The deep roots of Americans’ hatred of their health care system
The industry’s blame game will not end the US national health care nightmare.
How to think about the public backlash to the killing of a health care CEO
Why Brian Thompson’s death has provoked such complicated reactions from the public.
The world’s most mysterious psychedelic is already inside your brain
DMT, “the nuclear bomb of the psychedelic family,” explained.
Y2K is so back
25 years later, Kyle Mooney’s new movie revisits the apocalypse that wasn’t.
Why did we think Neanderthals weren’t smart?
Our earliest studies of Neanderthals were fundamentally flawed.
Public housing didn’t fail in the US. But it was sabotaged.
A brief history of how America’s public housing experiment was designed to fail.