Tuesday, October 20, 2026

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NRF boosts Southern Launch in $25 million Series A

The raise was led by specialist defence industry merchant bank Brindabella and Company and alongside the NRF includes former Macquarie Group execs Nicholas Moore and Alex Harvey, and Coupland Asset Management. Southern Launch previously announced an undisclosed “significant” raise in...

We tend to think our actions follow from our beliefs — but cognitive dissonance means we often rewrite our beliefs to justify what we’ve...

In 1959, Stanford students sat through a deliberately tedious task, then were paid to tell the next participant it had been fun. Some were paid $20 to lie. Some were paid just $1. When asked afterward how enjoyable the...

People who reach their seventies genuinely content usually didn’t get there by forgiving everyone; they got there by quietly releasing the need for certain...

We tend to assume that the calm you see in some older people is the reward for a lifetime of forgiveness. The picture is almost cinematic: a person in their seventies who has made peace with everyone, hugged it...

Rethinking remote work: surveys show people will give up 5 to 8% of their pay to work from home, but a 2026 study links...

Here is something I have been turning over for a while. Most of us, given the choice, will give up real money to work from home — not metaphorical money but actual salary, the kind that pays rent. In a...

When DeskTime studied how its users actually worked, the most productive tenth were not the ones who never stopped — rest seemed to...

I have a bad habit I am not proud of. When the work is going badly, I keep going anyway. The screen stays on, the cursor stays blinking, and I sit there past the point where anything good is...

Vancouver-Made Batteries to Support Indigenous-Led Energy Storage Projects Across Canada

A Vancouver-manufactured battery technology could help utilities across Canada add more long-duration energy storage to the grid. Invinity Energy Systems has announced a strategic collaboration with the First Nations Utility Batteries Partnership, an Indigenous-led and Indigenous-owned development corporation focused on...

Thought by Carl Jung: “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem...

Carl Jung wrote that loneliness does not come from having no people about you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you, or from holding views that others find inadmissible. It’s one of his...

One European company owns Ray-Ban, Oakley, the shops that sell them and the insurer that pays for them, and the reason glasses are so...

Around 26.5 billion euros in revenue in 2024, about 200,000 employees, and a description, from its own lenders, as the most integrated group in the optical market. That is EssilorLuxottica, a French-Italian conglomerate that most shoppers have never heard...

Apologies online fail more often than apologies in person, and the reason has less to do with sincerity than with what digital distance removes...

Studies of organizational conflict have found that apologies delivered in person are perceived as more sincere and more effective at restoring trust than the same content delivered through text or email. Research into mediated communication points the same direction:...

Many who were raised in the 1960s and 1970s learned to tell what kind of evening it would be from the weight of a...

She was nine years old, standing in the upstairs hallway of a house in 1973, listening. The front door had just opened. She could not yet see her father, but she did not need to. The keys went down...
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