Four researchers asked 130 single adults at a Canadian university to rate five sentences from one to seven, one of which read “Being single has the potential to make me grow as a person in the future,” and then...
Hypersonic flight is above Mach 5 – at least five times the speed of sound – around 3,800mph or 6,100kmh. For perspective, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, which hit Mach 3.3 (3,529 km/h) 50 years ago (and was retired in...
The 40x program is designed for the founders of software startups already generating revenue and scaling, and setting up to raise capital in the next 12 months.
It will bring together up to 40 of Australia’s most promising early-stage...
Ask someone why they feel better after an hour in the park and the answer usually comes out vague. Fresh air. The exercise, maybe. Just nice to get out.
That undersells it. There is a reasonably specific explanation for the...
Someone tells you they thought about it for a long time before they landed where they landed. Whether that sentence helps them depends largely on whether you agree with where they landed.
That is the finding in a paper by...
I’d bet that 9 out of 10 founders reading this would likely agree with me. But take a scroll down LinkedIn Lane on any given day and you’ll find a sea of suspiciously similar-looking posts framed as unique perspectives....
“What do you think of this?”
That is the last message in one version of an experiment funded by the University of California, Berkeley. It goes to a friend you don’t know all that well, a couple of texts into...
The proposed digital duty of care legislation would hold social media companies to greater account for content on their platforms. Opposition leader Angus Taylor said the Coalition had yet to see the proposal but warned against efforts to “censor...
A friend told me last month, on a rooftop in Bangkok with the traffic grinding away eight floors below, that she sometimes imagines getting on a plane and simply not coming back. Then she apologised. Actually apologised, to me,...
Somewhere on the internet right now there is a photograph of two 61-year-old women sitting side by side. They are identical twins. One of them looks about a decade older. The caption travelling with it usually claims one twin...
