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David Salazar

How Charli XCX’s and Troye Sivan’s Sweat tour turned sold-out arenas into nightclubs.

Sweat turned venues with over 15,000 seats into intimate dance parties. The creative directors say that was by design. 

Unsurprisingly to anyone who was online this year, one of the most repeated names when the Grammy nominations were announced last week was Charli XCX, whose album, brat, earned seven nods. The Recording Academy also nominated Charli XCX’s creative director, Imogene Strauss for Best Recording Package (alongside branding agency Special Offer) for the ubiquitous,...

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Jay Willis

Trump’s new DOGE task force is tailor-made to benefit Elon Musk’s businesses

With the new Department of Government Efficiency, Musk would be gutting agencies that are responsible for enforcing the law against him.

On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump named Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as cochairs of a new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. This appointment allows Musk the opportunity to simultaneously do two things that are very important to him: publicly complain about government policies that cost him money, and tweet deeply unfunny jokes about the...

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Next Big Idea Club

Your brain doesn’t have to decline as you get older. Debunking myths about aging

Key insights from the new book, ‘The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond.’

Debra Whitman is an economist and expert on aging issues. As AARP’s chief public policy officer, she leads global policy and research to help communities, lawmakers, and the private sector make aging easier. She has also served as staff director for the Senate Special Committee on Aging and as a researcher in the Social Security Administration.

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Yasmin Gagne

Dude Perfect went from YouTube to raising $100M. Here’s how its new CEO wants to grow the brand

Dude Perfect CEO Andrew Yaffe talked to ‘Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies’ podcast about his plans for the media brand.

Over the past 15 years, sports and entertainment company Dude Perfect—which started as a YouTube channel where five best friends posted videos of trick shots in different sports—has grown into a media juggernaut with attendant cruises, toy lines, and TV deals. Its content has expanded to include highly produced biweekly videos where they break world...

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The Conversation

How natural disasters like hurricanes and wildfires impact incarcerated people

As Helene traveled northward, 2,000 incarcerated people were evacuated from prisons in North Carolina, but only after the storm damaged local water and power sources.

The United States has almost 2 million people behind bars in prisons, jails and detention centers—the largest such population in any country. Although incarcerated people are locked away from the outside world, they are even more vulnerable to the impacts of disasters, such as hurricanes and wildfires, than the rest of society.

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W. Brad Johnson

Men: It’s time to disrupt bro code and shut down misogyny 

A leadership professor at the U.S. Naval Academy says confronting misogyny demands that we overcome self-doubt, marshal courage, and vanquish anxiety about having our masculinity called into question.

“Your body, my choice.” “Get back to the kitchen.”

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The Conversation

ChatGPT vs. Google: Which is more helpful for creativity?

Across a series of experiments, researchers found that ChatGPT does boost creativity, especially in everyday, practical tasks.

Think back to a time when you needed a quick answer, maybe for a recipe or a DIY project. A few years ago, most people’s first instinct was to “Google it.” Today, however, many people are more likely to reach for ChatGPT, OpenAI’s conversational artificial intelligence tool, which is changing the way people look for information.

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Jack Milko

Former Open winner is back in contention on the PGA Tour and it’s great to see

Francesco Molinari during the second round of the 2024 Butterfield Bermuda Championship | Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images

Injuries have plagued Francesco Molinari over the past few years but now he is back where he belongs: on the front page of the leaderboard.

For the first time in what seems like eons, the 2018 Champion Golfer of the Year finds himself on the front page of a PGA Tour leaderboard.

Francesco Molinari, the first and only Italian to ever win a major, posted a...

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Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica

6 Common EV Myths and How to Debunk Them

If you have friends and family who are unsure about electric vehicles, here’s a handy guide answering their toughest questions.

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If You Dream Of A Spotless Bathroom, These 33 Things Can Help Make It Happen

Including an *automatic* toilet cleaner.

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The Conversation

Why ‘financial interdependence’ is popular in America today

The practice of sharing money with your friends and loved ones has deep roots in American society.

About 1 in 5 American adults regularly provide unpaid care or financial assistance to their adult relatives or friends. And about 1 in 7 young adults between the ages of 25 and 34 live with their parents.

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The Conversation

What you need to know about brain-training games

Most brain-training games were designed to help participants master one or more specific skills.

Some 2.3 million U.S. adults over 65—more than 4%—have a diagnosis of dementia. But even without a diagnosis, a certain amount of cognitive decline is normal as age sets in.

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Joel Khalili

Taylor Swift Fans Sue Ticketmaster for Price Gouging

Taylor Swift fans have accused Ticketmaster and its parent company of conspiring with third parties to inflate concert ticket prices in violation of a law originally meant to target organized crime.

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