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Inside the Companies Quietly Killing the Five-Day Week
A wave of mid-size employers is compressing the work week without cutting pay, and the productivity data is making boardrooms elsewhere pay attention.
Odalys Ferreira7 min read
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Why Everyone Under 30 Is Suddenly Reading Poetry Again
Sales of poetry collections have jumped for the fourth straight year, and the reason has less to do with literature than with how people are using their phones.
Simone Achterberg 5 min
Technology
The Chip That Doesn't Need to Stay Cold Is Finally Real
A room-temperature superconducting interconnect just cleared independent replication, and three chipmakers are already redesigning motherboards around it.
Marcus Villanueva-Oyelaran 6 min
Wellness
The Sleep Tracker Backlash Has a Name Now: Orthosomnia
Doctors are seeing a rise in patients who are anxious about their sleep scores rather than their sleep, and clinics are starting to prescribe fewer trackers, not more.
Daniela Kowalska-Mensah 6 min
Science
The Deep-Sea Mining Ban Nobody Expected to Actually Hold
A coalition of Pacific island nations pushed through a twelve-year moratorium on seabed mineral extraction, and the mining companies that fought it are now quietly funding the research instead.
Talia Nkemelu-Bergstrom 8 min
Culture
The Minor League Team That Sold Out a Season by Refusing to Win
A independent baseball club built its entire brand around losing on purpose in the ninth inning, and attendance has tripled since the bit started.
Bryson Adeyemi-Kowalski 5 min