DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread

Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.

33 Pleasant, Soothing, Or Cute Products That’ll Help Banish Bad Vibes

These little items will be little rays of sunshine on an otherwise gloomy day.

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Inside Printemps, the French luxury store that’s trying to change the U.S. retail scene

Printemps is modeling its first NYC location after a ‘pied-à-terre.’ Will a homey atmosphere and Art Deco architecture bring shoppers to the Financial District?

In 1865, a new department store opened in Paris called Printemps (which is French for “spring”). The architecture is a stunning Art Deco masterpiece, replete with mosaics, dramatic turrets, and enormous windows with dramatic displays of recent products.

The unusual layout of this clinic is designed to help children with chronic pain

A new clinic in San Francisco swapped right angles for curves to give its young patients a sense of calm.

Everyone knows pain. It’s the most common ailment people experience, from a headache to a stubbed toe to a sore back. Treating pain can be as straightforward as popping a pill. But for people experiencing chronic pain—like the lingering aftereffects of chemotherapy or the slow rehabilitation after a major car accident—medication is rarely enough to fully erase the pain. When the...

‘Everything’s Computer’: How Trump’s Tesla bit sparked a meme frenzy

As Tesla owners rebel against Elon Musk, Trump throws a White House car show in support—accidentally launching a new internet catchphrase in the process.

Around the country, Tesla owners are disguising their cars with fake badges and joining Facebook support groups as protests against Elon Musk, the electric vehicle maker’s CEO, intensify. To throw his support behind his DOGE administrator, Donald Trump hosted a Tesla car show on the White House lawn, reading from a literal Tesla sales...

‘Space junk’ is clogging the atmosphere—and it’s going to make weather forecasts and internet access much worse

A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from weather tracking to broadband internet to national defense.

In the past five years, more satellites have been launched into Earth’s atmosphere than the preceding 60 years combined. And now, scientists believe that climate change is set to increase the number of old satellites that will turn into floating obstacles.

Is your organization creating bad leaders?

We assume bad leaders are at fault, but poor organizations can set leaders up to fail. Here’s how to design an organization that lets leaders and employees thrive.

At the moment, confidence in leadership is at an all time low, according to the 2024 Leadership Confidence Index. It’s natural to assume the cause is born of an individual failure—the leader lacks competence, their boss didn’t prepare or train them well, they don’t care about how others experience them. And many of...

Trump Administration Revives Detention of Immigrant Families

Two facilities in South Texas are being readied for undocumented parents and their children. One site began receiving them earlier this month.

Deportations Threaten Constitutional Showdown, and DOGE Cuts Hit Nuclear Agency

Plus, a retirement home for penguins.

Some Federal Office Leases Restored After Pushback to Musk Team’s Cuts

The chaotic effort to reduce the government’s real estate portfolio is another example of the setbacks the administration has faced as officials try to carry out President Trump’s agenda.

Social Security Workers Say It Is Being Endangered by DOGE

Current and former employees, both Republican and Democratic, are raising alarms about the damage cost-cutting efforts could do to the agency’s ability to serve the public.

DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts

Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Safety Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting the federal work force.

Whistleblower book Meta blocked from promotion is now an Amazon best seller

Last Wednesday, Meta successfully obtained a ruling blocking whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her memoir Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism. Today, the book is third on Amazon's Best Sellers list. Who could have seen this coming?

Released on March 11, Careless People recounts Wynn-Williams'...

Your Netflix alternative is here, and it’s only $15 for life

TL;DR: Get a lifetime subscription to BitMar’s content finder for $14.99 this week only with code BITMAR5 at checkout (reg. $150).

Here’s a challenge: cut the cord with your streaming services. Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, all of them. You’re likely paying hundreds each year in subscription fees and, chances are, you still can’t find the one movie you want to watch on any of them.

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You might be using Canva wrong — here’s how to fix that

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Are you still using Canva like it’s 2019? As in, manually adjusting every design, recreating templates from scratch, and avoiding the AI tools because they seem scary? Don’t be embarrassed — you’re like most people. But it’s time to change that.

By the end of this week, you could be a Canva pro by taking our bundle of six self-paced courses. These Canva training...

Turn mindless scrolling into mindful learning with Wiser5, now just $40 for life

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Our phones are like our security blankets. We reach for them when bored in a line, waiting for an appointment, or relaxing in bed — and most of the time, we're just mindlessly scrolling. Since tapping through content comes so easily, we might as well learn something while we do it. 

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The White Lotus Season 3, episode 6 trailer teases rising tension

We're five episodes into The White Lotus Season 3, the tension is mounting, and it looks like things will be close to breaking point in episode 6.

HBO's preview above shows the various characters dealing with the aftermath of their big nights out in episode 5, with friction developing between the trio of friends and Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) telling Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) that her (very dangerous) husband Greg (Jon Gries) "knows about you."

Uh-oh.

17 Toxic Bosses Whose Power Trip Came To An End After An Employee Stood Up For Themself

They did not hold back.

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The water at these schools comes almost entirely from rain

Gravity Water, with support from companies like Apple, is installing rainwater harvesting tech at hundreds of locations around the world.

At a remote elementary school in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, until recently, access to safe drinking water was a daily challenge. The school tried to use groundwater, but there wasn’t enough supply; the water was also contaminated with salt and metal. In the dry season, from December to April, droughts made the challenge worse. But last month, the...

34 Cozy Products For Anyone Who Gets Simply Enraged By Being Uncomfy

Comfy Crocs aren't enough. You need these ones that are lined with warm, oh-so-soft fur.

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