The obvious reading of a first-time homebuyer reaching a median age of 40 is that young Americans are waiting longer by choice, renting into their late thirties, delaying the whole project of settling down.
The loneliness that arrives in midlife is often not a sign of failing at relationships. It tends to fall on the people who spent two decades being the reliable one, and left no room for themselves.
Every time you type a question into a chatbot, the reply feels weightless.
The 2020 flash set a distance record, but the WMO committee’s recommendation to remove a one-second definition limit had been published years earlier.
The usual story about people who stay fit into their 70s is a story about exceptional character.
The friendships people carry into old age often look, from the outside, like proof of loyalty.
The uncomfortable part of happiness research is not that money fails to matter, or that relationships fail to matter, or that health fails to matter.
When an older adult starts giving things away, the easy reading is that they are preparing to disappear.
Microsoft’s interruption estimates apply to the top 20 per cent of users by received ping volume. The 275 total covers 24 hours; the two-minute gap covers an eight-hour workday.
Nearly three in ten American homes now contain exactly one person.
As MIT Technology Review put it, "generating an image using a powerful AI model takes as much energy as fully charging your smartphone." That figure came from a single study and describes one particularly heavy model, not image generation in general but a striking comparison is it.
In Britain's biggest four-day-week trial, 71 percent of employees said they felt less burnt out by the end.
