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The USDA has a plan to help organic farmers. It starts with hummus
As a young brand, Little Sesame has spent the past few years doing what most startups do: looking for capital. The three-year-old Washington, D.C.-based consumer packaged goods company, which spins...
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Most people who read a lot will tell you that many of the novels they love are way better than the ones on the various “best books of the year” roundups from major newspapers and BookTokers. But if...
View ArticleState governments must be loving 4/20 almost as much as Tax Day
If you smell something musky in the air today and see puffs of smoke, don’t be alarmed. Today is 4/20, an unofficial holiday for those who like to partake in marijuana. These days, legal weed is a big...
View ArticleIf leaders want to be trusted, they need to trust their teams
In 2022, according to Gallup, only 20% of workers strongly agreed with the statement “I trust the leadership of this organization,” a 4% drop from 2019, and although in 2023 this figure had risen to...
View ArticleThe rise of the NBA gig worker
As the NBA playoffs get underway, each team’s success hinges on the health of its superstars—and the quality of the short-term gig workers bolstering the roster. Take the recent play-in game between...
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How Big Tequila is fighting to make sure you never fully know what’s in your...
At a recent tequila tasting event held at IXTA, a Mexican hotspot in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Grover and Scarlet Sanschagrin lament that too many tequilas sold on shelves today contain artificial...
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Here’s what it actually costs to build a single-family home, as told by one...
Want more stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the free, daily ResiClub newsletter. How much does it really cost to build a home? To better understand single-family home...
View Article8 renter-friendly tips to personalize your home
While renting apartments in San Francisco, Malone Detro often made small changes to the walls or fixtures to match her particular taste and budget. “There are a lot of ways in which a rental home can...
View ArticleThe ethical pros and cons of Meta’s new Llama 3 open-source AI model
Meta has a brand-new Llama to show off. On Thursday, the social media giant announced Llama 3, the next version of its open-source model for the Meta AI assistant, which it hopes will make its chatbot...
View ArticlePhish’s Trey Anastasio shares why playing at the Sphere in Las Vegas is unique
Phish has been performing for decades, but never has the band played the same show twice. Over the 40 years since the band was formed at a Vermont college, Phish has amassed a reputation for its...
View ArticleThe TikTok ban misses the big picture: America’s social media literary problem
The U.S. government moved closer to banning the video social media app TikTok after the House of Representatives attached the measure to an emergency spending bill on April 17, 2024. The move could...
View ArticleHow leaders can be vulnerable on social media without being TMI oversharers
“You have to be more vulnerable.” What does that actually mean? If you’re a professional who is on social media to attract clients or raise your profile, what should remain in the confines of the...
View ArticleHere’s how to master the skill employers want most
A problem pops up at work—what’s the first thing you do? The frenzied pace of many corporate environments means that we often jump straight to solutions. But this tendency, deeply ingrained through...
View Article4 signs your email was written by AI—and why it matters
One of technology’s great promises has been that it would free us from rote tasks and leave us more time for creative thinking. Now, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) promises to do some of...
View ArticleHow global transport is getting greener, safer, and smarter
The global transport industry is always evolving. A decade ago, there was a big appetite for autonomous vehicles and cloud computing. These days, the industry is driven by a dual focus on...
View ArticleCatalyze your biggest ideas by creating your own ‘in-between space’
When I was in college, I drove across the country six times. Each fall, I would fuel up my Sahara-beige Mitsubishi Montero SUV for the 2,690-mile haul between my Los Angeles home and upstate New York...
View ArticleHow to stay productive during Mercury’s retrograde
If you’re into astrology, you might be counting down the days until April 25. That’s when Mercury retrograde, a cosmic event believed to impact our lives negatively, is supposed to end. If you’ve been...
View ArticleHow to get rid of those annoying bank fees
Recently, on the way to take my son for a haircut, I suddenly realized I was out of cash—and the adorable 80-year-old barber who cuts our kids’ hair doesn’t accept credit cards. We were already...
View Article4 times artists scrapped their work—and it paid off
How do you follow up three Grammy wins? If you’re SZA, whose 2023 hit “Kill Bill” sent her star-status soaring, you scrap your next project that’s just percolating and start over from scratch. After...
View ArticleWhat does it mean to be ‘middle class’ in 2024?
When I was a kid, $100,000 sounded like an impossibly large sum of money. Even when I started working at my first professional job with an entry-level salary of $32,000, I thought that making $100,000...
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