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Across 1,252 people in 10 studies, researchers found that even a five-minute dose of green exercise lifted mood and self-esteem

How little time outdoors does it take to feel better? In 2010, two researchers at the University of Essex tried to answer this question. They pooled the results of 10 separate UK studies covering 1,252 people, then asked what sounds...

Victoria Founder Builds Hobby Card Index for Booming Trading Card Market

A Victoria founder is taking on the sports and trading card market with a data platform built for collectors, dealers, and sellers. Sean Charman, founder of Hobby Card Index, has built an independent trading card platform that tracks real sold-price...

How Lax Kw’alaams First Nation is Combining Indigenous Knowledge and AI to Support Salmon Conservation

Built in B.C. | Building B.C. A series exploring how Innovate BC-supported projects are helping organizations solve real-world challenges through made-in-B.C. innovation. Lax Kw’alaams First Nation, located on British Columbia’s North Coast, has a long history of conservation management and...

Thought of the day by Stoic philosopher Epictetus: “It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it, that matters”

The numbers do not care how hard you work. Roughly 22.1 percent of new private-sector businesses fail within their first year. By the five-year mark that climbs to about 48.6 percent, and stretched to a decade roughly 65.3 percent...

Brisbane ESG software startup plants $450,000 Seed raise

The round for Klean Technologies, trading as ESGAgent.ai, was led by Japanese VC DNX Ventures and takes the total raised, including grants, to $1.7 million, since a pre-Seed round in 2024. The new funds will support product development and customer...

Just 1 in 5 Australian workers feel engaged at work – and AI can’t fix that

The findings from Gallup, were shared by the management consultants APAC MD Claire de Carteret, during a discussion panel Lifting Productivity Without Burning Out Our People at The Cuppa Co-Lab in Sydney last week. Employee engagement across Australia and New...

Fintechs face an ‘existential threat’ that excludes them from the CGT fix for startups

In its submission to the Treasury consultation paper, known as the Innovative Business CGT Concession (IBCC) FinTech Australia argues that while the carve-out is designed to prevent startups becoming collateral damage from the government’s broader CGT reforms, it will...

Kiwi AI mapping data startup Hyades plants $910,000 pre-Seed

The raise was led by Icehouse Ventures, supported by K1W1 and angel investors Tony Falkenstein and Tim Brown. On top of the VC investment, Hyades also scored a NZ$400,000 New to R&D grant from the government. Hyades is developing a...

We tend to think detachment means becoming cold or disengaged, but occupational psychology uses the word differently: research finds that mentally switching off from...

Detachment has a chilly reputation. In ordinary conversation, it can sound like emotional distance, cynicism or a slow retreat from the people and tasks that once mattered. At work, the word can sound even worse, as if an employee...

Psychology suggests people who answer a casual text within seconds but take days to reply to an emotional one aren’t necessarily inconsistent or uncaring...

It is easy to read response time as character. Someone replies instantly to a meme, a logistics question, a restaurant link or a work aside. Then an emotional message arrives, and the same person goes quiet for two days....
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Trump Killed the Truth, the Left Must Now Bury It

Let’s begin with this question: Why is the social media platform that’s so obviously filled with lies called “Truth...
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