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A new study modeling six of history's deadliest heatwaves found that conditions had already crossed the threshold for human survival, and every single one of those events stayed below the wet bulb temperature long treated as the line between danger and death

A new study in Nature Communications modelled six of the deadliest heatwaves on record and found something the field has been slow to acknowledge: every single one of them killed thousands of people while staying below the wet-bulb temperature long treated as the threshold between danger and death.

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We assume entrepreneurs peak in their twenties, but a Kellogg School study of 2.7 million company founders found the average founder of the fastest-growing tech firms was 45, and a 50-year-old is nearly twice as likely to build a runaway success as a 30-year-old

A large founder-age study from Azoulay, Jones, Kim, and Miranda complicates the young-founder myth by linking high-growth outcomes with middle-aged founders and prior industry experience.

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A Georgia Tech team scanned more than 100 people at rest and found that those who reported more frequent mind-wandering in daily life tended to score higher on fluid intelligence and creativity tests — suggesting that, in some people, a wandering mind may reflect an efficient brain with spare cognitive capacity, rather than simple distraction.

A Georgia Tech resting-state brain imaging study complicates the usual workplace story about mind-wandering, creativity, and visible focus.