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The Great Resignation: Why Millions Are Quitting Their Jobs
Something extraordinary began happening in the American labour market in the spring of 2021. As pandemic restrictions eased, workers started quitting their jobs in numbers that had no precedent in … Read More
Simone Biles Withdraws from Tokyo — and Wins a Different Kind of Gold
On July 27, 2021, the greatest gymnast in the history of her sport walked away from the competition floor at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo. Simone Biles, 24 years … Read More
Naomi Osaka Puts Mental Health on the World’s Biggest Stage
On May 26, 2021, four-time Grand Slam tennis champion Naomi Osaka announced she would not attend mandatory post-match press conferences at the French Open, citing the negative effect of media … Read More
Working from Home Forever? What Two Years of Remote Work Taught Us
Before March 2020, working from home was a perk enjoyed by a relatively small segment of the workforce — a privilege that many managers viewed with undisguised scepticism. Within three … Read More
NFTs Explained: Why People Are Paying Millions for Digital Art
On March 11, 2021, Christie’s auction house sold a digital artwork called ‘Everydays: The First 5000 Days’ by an artist known as Beeple for $69.3 million — making it the … Read More
DeepMind Cracks the Protein Folding Problem — and Changes Biology Forever
In November 2020, Google’s artificial intelligence research lab DeepMind announced that its AlphaFold2 system had achieved something biologists had been trying to accomplish for more than fifty years: accurately predicting … Read More