On the night of 22 October 1707, Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell was leading twenty-one ships of the Royal Navy home from Gibraltar when his flagship HMS Association struck the Western Rocks of the Scilly Isles and went down in...
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi did not find the deepest form of human aliveness where modern culture often tells us to look for it. Not in total comfort. Not in passive ease. Not in the blank relief of finally doing nothing.
He found...
About 90 percent of American children born in 1940 grew up to earn more than their parents did at the same age. For children born in the 1980s, that share dropped to roughly 50 percent. That is the finding...
For most of the twentieth century, finding a partner in America was a community project. Family made introductions. Church socials, neighbourhood gatherings, and the friend who knew someone worth meeting did the quiet work of pairing people off. That...
My dad spent the better part of forty years walking into the same office. When he finally retired, we threw him the dinner, made the toasts, and told him he’d earned every slow morning coming his way. He smiled...
RZOLV Technologies has secured nearly $2 million through an over-subscribed non-brokered private placement financing.
RZOLV, founded in 2022 in Vancouver, has developed a non-toxic, water-based reagent for gold and critical mineral extraction, serving as a cyanide-free alternative in mining to...
A second creditors meeting on Wednesday voted to place the business in liquidation when no buyer emerged after the decade-old Canberra startup was placed in voluntary administration on June 3.
Goterra turned food scraps into insect protein and fertiliser using...
The uncomfortable part of happiness research is not that money fails to matter, or that relationships fail to matter, or that health fails to matter. All three matter. The uncomfortable part is that none of them fully protects a...
When an older adult starts giving things away, the easy reading is that they are preparing to disappear. The furniture, the jewellery, the books, the tools, the boxes of photographs: each departure can look like a small surrender.
There is...
Every innovation playbook I’ve read in the past two decades was written for a large city. The advice is usually the same: bigger is better, and small is something to overcome.
But after seven years chairing one of Australia’s most...
