The DealBook newsletter delves into a single topic or theme every weekend, providing reporting and analysis that offers a better understanding of an important issue in business. If you don’t already receive the daily newsletter, sign up here. Mike Bowen … Read more
Alex Skopic This April, the Iowa Department of Corrections issued a ban on charities, family members, and other outside parties donating books to prisoners. Under the state’s new guidelines, incarcerated people can get books only from a handful of “approved … Read more
In early 2016, an American hacker broke into the servers of hotel website Booking.com and stole details of thousands of hotel reservations in countries in the Middle East. After two months of research, four Booking.com IT-specialists determined that the hacker … Read more
Transportation technology is awe-inspiring. Supersonic airplanes, autonomous vehicles, and hyperloops enlarge our imaginations and lead us down unpredictable YouTube click holes. March of Intellect (British Library) Amtrak conjures less of an image of the technological sublime and more, if we … Read more
American bumblebees are a vital pollinator for wildflowers and crops, and their decline could have severe consequences for the environment. Judy Gallagher via Wikicommons under CC BY 2.0 The American bumblebee (Bombus pensylvanicus)—once abundant and found lazily floating around … Read more
NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites (together, “cookies”) to enhance your viewing, listening and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide social media … Read more
I’m not sure what it is about a pandemic that makes people want to see comic strips on the walls of an art museum. Here in Chicago, there are currently five exhibitions covering this American mongrel art form, from its … Read more
When Larisa Itina was emigrating from Russia in 2000, her son Boris told her not to bother packing all the toys, games and puzzles she’d collected for helping children learn math. He said, ” ‘Mother, you will never use this … Read more
Amazon employs 950,000 workers in the US, the company said in its latest earnings report. The US has a population of 261 million and an employed non-farm workforce of 145 million, per the BLS. More people work for Amazon than … Read more
Mid-Atlantic convenience store chain Sheetz will start accepting bitcoin and other crypto payments across its outlets. In a press release on 27th May 2021, Sheetz announced that it is partnering with digital payment facilitator Flexa to provide customers with the … Read more