Author: Michelle Korhonen
Dozens of Japanese guests arrive at Sicily airport in private jets for billionaire’s four-day birthday event as businessman buys up Palermo’s hotels, theatre and opera house for the ultimate party for his 1,400 closest friends amid locals’ fury – Sound Health and Lasting Wealth
We all know that feeling when daylight savings time rolls around and suddenly our precious sleep is thrown out of whack. It’s like someone snuck into our bedrooms and stole an hour of our precious Zzzs. Why Does Daylight Savings Time Mess with Our Sleep? Let’s talk about the problems we face when we “fall back” and lose an hour of sleep. It’s not just about feeling groggy in the morning (although that’s definitely a major bummer). Daylight savings time disrupts our sleep/wake cycles, causing insomnia and increased fatigue. Plus, the decrease in melatonin production makes it even harder to…
The CDC finds that leishmaniasis, a skin disease spread by sand flies, is spreading at low levels in the southern U.S. It was previously considered a tropical disease only be acquired abroad. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A skin disease spread by sand flies was long considered a tropical disease, only acquired by Americans traveling abroad. Well, recent findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the disease is actually spreading in the southern U.S. and has been for quite some time. NPR’s Pien Huang has more.PIEN HUANG, BYLINE: Back in 2014, Dr. Bridget McIlwee saw a young patient…
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.WeWork, once the most valuable start-up in the country, is crumbling. Maybe it shouldn’t have gotten so big to begin with.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:Hype and Bad TimingOn its face, 2023 seems like the year WeWork was built for. Remote or hybrid work is common, and many companies are giving up long-term office leases. The time feels ripe for workers to…
The parents of Sam Bankman-Fried financially profited off his ‘web of deceit’ in which he defrauded FTX customers out of a total of $8billion.He committed one of the biggest financial frauds in American history – by using FTX customer deposits to prop up risky investments in fledgling hedge fund Alameda, which was run with his ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison.The 31-year-old billionaire was convicted of two counts of fraud and five counts of conspiracy. He now faces a prison sentence of up to 110 years. His parents, longtime Stanford Law School professors Joe Bankman and Barbara Fried, stood by him despite the allegations and were a…
This picture taken in March 2018 shows a technician working on the clock of the Lukaskirche Church in Dresden, eastern Germany. This weekend, Americans will wind back this clocks as daylight saving time ends. Sebastian Kahnert/DPA/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sebastian Kahnert/DPA/AFP via Getty Images This picture taken in March 2018 shows a technician working on the clock of the Lukaskirche Church in Dresden, eastern Germany. This weekend, Americans will wind back this clocks as daylight saving time ends. Sebastian Kahnert/DPA/AFP via Getty Images Twice a year, every year, the ritual returns as literal clockwork: the start…
The winning and honored images in this year’s Nature Conservancy photography competition were just announced. Entries from more than 80,000 individual photographers in 191 different countries and territories were judged across 12 different categories. Contest organizers were once again kind enough to share some of their top images with us. The captions were written by the photographers and lightly edited for style.
A group of America’s top law firms have sent a message to elite law schools warning them to crack down on anti-Semitic demonstrations, or they will stop hiring their students.In a letter addressed simply to ‘Deans,’ about two-dozen of the nation’s top Wall Street firms warned that what takes place on campus may very well have corporate consequences.‘Over the last several weeks, we have been alarmed at reports of anti-Semitic harassment, vandalism and assaults on college campuses, including rallies calling for the death of Jews and the elimination of the state of Israel. ‘Such anti-Semitic activities would not be tolerated at any…
A tornado damaged a Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in Rocky Mount, N.C., in July. The facility makes almost 25% of Pfizer’s sterile injectable medicines used in the U.S. Sean Rayford/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sean Rayford/Getty Images A tornado damaged a Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in Rocky Mount, N.C., in July. The facility makes almost 25% of Pfizer’s sterile injectable medicines used in the U.S. Sean Rayford/Getty Images As a pharmacist, Jason Chou didn’t major in international relations. But a few days after the Hamas attack on Israel threw the Middle East into crisis, he and his colleagues started thinking about…
Numbers are one way to make the destruction of war legible: number of hostages, number of children killed, number of buildings destroyed, number of aid trucks that made it across the Egyptian border. For Marwan Bardawil, who lives in Gaza, the unit of peril he tracks is cubic meters per hour. Bardawil is a water engineer with the Palestinian Water Authority overseeing Gaza. And these days he is measuring, in cubic meters per hour, the quantity of water flowing through the pipes that, in prewar time, carried 10 percent of Gazans’ drinking water—pipes that are controlled by Israel. Right now,…