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Traveling in retirement is great. Being at home is harder. - WSJ
 We were cycling along the north Japan coastline in July when a reader sent us an email we’ve been talking about ever since.
“We traveled a ton the first two years of retirement and then stayed home for the last 6 months for the first time in our lives to just be in our neighborhood, in our home, our garden," wrote Colleen, 64, of Washington state. “It’s been so much more enjoyable than we thought."
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WorkWorkThe Aurora Borealis Like You've Never Seen It - Discover Magazine Dazzling aurora borealis displays like this usually are visible only in far northern and southern parts of the globe. But overnight on Oct. 10 and 11, they lit up the skies as far south as Texas. It was all the result of a severe geomagnetic storm triggered by a coronal mass ejection that had occurred together with an intense solar flare on October 8, 2024.
WorkWorkThe Elegant Strategy: Why Hustle Culture Isn't Enough - Inc Seth Godin is a marketing expert and the author of several bestselling books, including Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable, and The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick). His newest book, This is Strategy: Make Better Plans, is out this week, and offers business leaders a new perspective on working smarter. Here, Godin writes about a concept he calls elegant strategy, and highlights his books action items for entrepreneurs and business leaders:
WorkHow to Avoid Strategy Myopia - Harvard Business Review Weve spent a century creating efficient organizations. Weve created companies of scale that transform our economy and create wealth. Dozens of companies are now bigger than the economies of entire nations. Optimization and smart management have turned products that were initially seen as novelties the automobile, the telephone, or personal computers into huge businesses. The essence of this forward motion is a focus on convenience and efficiency. Predictable, manageable efforts toward stability and profitability. WorkHow MAGA borrows from religion - The Economist In 2015 Lance Wallnau heard a tick-tick-ticking sound in his left ear. It was the voice of the Holy Spirit, telling him that the 45th chapter of the Book of Isaiah would reveal the identity of the 45th president. He consulted the text, which is about Cyrus, a pagan king anointed by God to rescue Jews from captivity in Babylon. It stood to reason that the heathen from Queens had been similarly anointed. Before the election Mr Wallnau published Gods Chaos Candidate, likening Donald Trump to a divine wrecking ball.
WorkWorkDonald Trumps Long Love for McDonalds, ExplainedRepublican presidential nominee former President Donald Trumps campaign stop at a McDonalds in suburban Philadelphia on Sunday has sparked bemusement and bewilderment from onlookers. But the Golden Arches photo op was far from random: it represents the culmination of a yearslong fascination Trump has had with the fast food chain.
WorkWorkDietary guidelines panel stresses fruits and vegetables but stops shy of major changes - STAT The experts charged with advising federal health officials on the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans had to scale a mountain of research challenges like this basic impediment, starting with the impossibility of randomly assigning people to eat only x or y for 30 to 40 years. They completed their two-day meeting on Tuesday to discuss draft recommendations they will send to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture. Guidelines will be published in December.
WorkWorkJeff VanderMeer on How Scientific Uncertainty Inspires His Weird Fiction - Scientific American Few novelists are as adept at inspiring both horror and awe as Jeff VanderMeer. The author is perhaps best known for his award-winning Southern Reach series, of which the first three installmentsAnnihilation, Authority and Acceptancewere published in 2014. The books follow cadres of scientists on expeditions into Area X, a swath of pristine wilderness along Floridas coast where nature has inexplicably shifted, changing not only itself but anyone or anything deemed a threat to its existence.
WorkBlackouts arent unusual in Cuba, but this one is differentThe US presidential campaign is in its final weeks and were dedicated to helping you understand the stakes. In this election cycle, its more important than ever to provide context beyond the headlines. But in-depth reporting is costly, so to continue this vital work, we have an ambitious goal to add 5,000 new members. Work
WorkWork WorkWorkAs Election Looms, Disinformation 'Has Never Been Worse'“They do have different tactics and different approaches to influence operations, but their goals are the same,” Jen Easterly, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in Washington, said in an interview, referring to foreign adversaries. “Very simply, they’re looking to undermine American trust in our democratic institutions and the election specifically, and to sow partisan discord.” WorkOpinion | Nate Silver: My Gut Says Trump. But Don't Trust Anyone's Gut, Even Mine.But poker players base that little something on thousands of hands of experience. There are presidential elections only every four years. When asked who will win, most people say Mr. Trump because of recency bias — he won in 2016, when he wasn’t expected to, and then almost won in 2020 despite being well behind in the polls. But we might not remember 2012, when Barack Obama not only won but beat his polls. It’s extremely hard to predict the direction of polling errors. WorkOpinion | The Debate About the Economy You're Not Getting From the Election Our tax code is a Rube Goldberg machine built by an army of lobbyists. The next president should eliminate loopholes that stack the deck in favor of the have-plenty. (Hint: Start with the “carried interest” loophole.) Fund an Internal Revenue Service that ensures everyone plays by the rules. Congress largely ignores the nearly $2 trillion given away every year through breaks, loopholes and inefficiencies in the tax code. That’s where the unfairness and bloat live. Get rid of those and you can make progress on the deficit. WorkWorkWorkWhat does Elon Musk want from all this politicking?In California, a coastal commission cited Musk’s propensity to tweet misinformation during a vote to reject a petition by SpaceX and the US air force to launch more rockets from a base on a Santa Barbara beach. Musk sued in response, alleging political bias and first amendment violations. He just wants to be left alone to launch rockets and tweet and spend tens of millions on the presidential election in peace. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkHarris says the US is 'absolutely' ready for a female president | First ThingAfter spending four weeks trapped inside a Sydney mall eating brioche, Mickey the cockatoo is finally free. His liberty was secured after a bird expert brought in another cockatoo, named Old Lady Doris, to calm Mickey down, leading to some "really cute scenes where they were canoodling with each other", a bird sanctuary boss, Ravi Wasan, said. WorkIt's Getting Harder to Qualify for Social Security Benefits in Retirement. Here's the Reason WhyIf you're like most Americans, you're a few years (or more) behind on your retirement savings. But a handful of little-known "Social Security secrets" could help ensure a boost in your retirement income. For example: one easy trick could pay you as much as $22,924 more... each year! Once you learn how to maximize your Social Security benefits, we think you could retire confidently with the peace of mind we're all after. Simply click here to discover how to learn more about these strategies. WorkWorkWhy Gender May Be the Defining Issue of the ElectionThose who have studied voting patterns for decades say they have never before seen a presidential race where gender is so central to the electoral prospects of each candidate — even in 2016, when Hillary Clinton became the first woman to capture a major party nomination. They cite a series of factors: Mr. Trump’s well-documented denigration of women, Ms. Harris’s barrier-breaking potential, longstanding sexist views about women in power and, perhaps most centrally, the Supreme Court’s overturning of a constitutional right to abortion two years ago. WorkDemocrats Keep the Dream Alive in Texas“Sometime in the next four to eight years,” said Katherine Fischer, who has been leading a new political action committee, Texas Majority PAC, that is the main vehicle for the Soros contributions. WorkFreshman Enrollment Appears to Decline for the First Time Since 2020Pell grants provide a subsidy of up to $7,395 per year for low-income students and offer a financial boost for schools that disproportionately enroll lower-income students. The grants generally support families in the lower half of household income distribution — those earning $60,000 a year or less — but more than half have typically gone to students whose families earn less than $20,000 annually. WorkTrump's Attacks Again Turn Nasty in Campaign's Waning DaysThough Mr. Trump has for months expressed contempt for Ms. Harris, he had previously reserved his most disparaging language about her for private settings. But as he has become more anxious about her financial edge and as he has struggled to make any single line of criticism against her stand out to voters, he has increasingly fallen back on a variety of wildly false personal attacks as a way to diminish her support. WorkWalz Rallies Supporters on Wisconsin's First Day of Voting, Alongside ObamaIn Racine on Tuesday night, he addressed comments from John Kelly, a former Trump chief of staff, who said recently that Mr. Trump had told him during his presidency that he wished he had generals like Adolf Hitler’s. “As a 24-year veteran of our military, that makes me sick as hell,” Mr. Walz said. “The guardrails are gone. Trump is descending into this madness.” Work5 Takeaways From Harris's Interview With NBC News“Let me be very clear: Mine will not be a continuation of the Biden administration,” Ms. Harris said. “I bring my own experiences, my own ideas to it, and it has informed a number of my areas of focus.” WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkMore escape debt for free as bills keep mounting“They are using it for smaller transactions, as opposed to using it to spread the costs of those larger transactions which really is what buy now, pay later as a product is intended to be used for.” WorkCharacter.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen's SuicideSewell’s parents and friends had no idea he’d fallen for a chatbot. They just saw him get sucked deeper into his phone. Eventually, they noticed that he was isolating himself and pulling away from the real world. His grades started to suffer, and he began getting into trouble at school. He lost interest in the things that used to excite him, like Formula 1 racing or playing Fortnite with his friends. At night, he’d come home and go straight to his room, where he’d talk to Dany for hours. WorkHow to Use Images From Your Phone to Search the WebWhen Circle to Search is activated, the screen dims slightly and a menu of search tools appears. Drag your finger around the onscreen item that interests you, and Google Search results will appear below the image. You can add keywords to narrow the search, and A.I. overviews may be included. WorkWorkWorkDisplaced Gazans Brace for Another Harsh WinterMahmoud Abu Helal, a 33-year-old pharmacist, has been sharing a leaky self-made tent with 12 relatives since he fled the southern city of Rafah in May, when the Israeli ground invasion there began. He thought they would be able to return to their homes in a few days, he said, so they only brought summer clothes. 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