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Published April 8, 2026 09:14AMIt felt like off-roading on another planet. Crumbly black cinders crunched beneath my tires, as I explored an otherworldly region of volcanic cones and craters. The overlapping 4×4 tracks and scattered stands of pine trees were the most familiar terrestrial features. It was a warm June evening, seven years ago, at the Cinder Hills OHV Area in Northern Arizona. I’d spent the past 17 days rowing rapids on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, including our final night floating out under the stars. Now I was too tired to drive back to my seasonal base…

Greece is moving forward with a social media ban for children under the age of 15, becoming the latest country to restrict young teens from using such online platforms.On Wednesday, April 8, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced plans to restrict social media use by age starting on January 1, 2027, Reuters reports.In a video announcement directed to Greece’s young people, the prime minister cited concerns such as trouble sleeping, increasing anxiety, and social media platforms’ addictive designs. In the video, Mitsotakis also pointed to factors such as children not allowing their minds to rest, feeling constant comparisons, and spending long…

For all the advances in data science, artificial intelligence, and behavioral assessments, one hiring ritual remains stubbornly unchanged: the job interview, where candidates are still subjected to awkward brainteasers about golf balls in airplanes, forced to disclose their “biggest weaknesses” to amateur psychologists, asked whether they would keep working after winning the lottery, or made to present to silent panels who seem less interested in evidence of competence than in observing how gracefully applicants endure a mildly humiliating social experiment.Despite decades of research showing that traditional interviews are only moderately reliable predictors of performance, organizations continue to rely on them…

Shares in Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE: DAL) are on the rise this morning after the company reported its Q1 2026 results. While Delta comfortably beat revenue expectations, the U.S. air carrier also addressed the biggest challenge it is currently facing, rising gas prices, and how it is working to mitigate that challenge. Here’s what you need to know.Delta’s Q1 beats expectations, stock surgesOn Wednesday, Delta Air Lines announced its Q1 2026 financial results, covering the January through March period. The results, announced before markets opened, showed the company had a strong quarter.The company reported non-GAAP operating revenue of $14.2…

Over the past few days, new billboards have slowly been popping up along a 130-mile stretch of desert into Indio, California. One features a giant image of a crying face emoji; another is a picture of an unexplained blob; a third shows an edit of the Mona Lisa sipping out of a delicate tea cup. Each of these eye-catching visuals is an advertisement for a performance at this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.Coachella 2026 takes place over two weekends: April 10 through 12 and April 17 through 19. And while billboard advertising has been a hallmark of the…

The airport is chaos. Lines snake beyond the designated barriers and out the doors as frazzled travelers tug their luggage and scowl at their phones, their grimaced faces even more dramatic in the harsh lighting. I stand in the security queue, sensing the stress emanating from everyone around me like swarms of buzzing flies. A man behind me huffs with dramatic indignation, a couple ahead bickers in hissed whispers “we should have left earlier!”, and someone’s roller bag keeps thwacking my heels. My fists clench as irritation winds me tighter. The security checkpoint seems miles away and my flight is…

Published April 8, 2026 03:22AMIn March 2024, Shaunna Burke found a lump on her left breast while taking a shower. The timing of the discovery was terrible: Burke, who was 48 at the time, was two months out from running the Everest Marathon, a 26.2-mile trail race in Nepal that begins in the thin air at Base Camp.For Burke, a professor and researcher at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, the discovery was a bitterly ironic twist of fate. Her specialty is cancer research. She has spent most of the last two decades exploring how to prepare cancer…

The cutting board has to do a lot of work: It needs to absorb knife marks, soak up onion juice, and be big enough to hold vegetables and scraps. On a daily basis, home cooks are forced to confront the logistical problem of where to put the parsley they just chopped when they move on to the carrots. By the end of meal prep, the kitchen counter is littered with food waste and crowded with mismatched bowls of ingredients.It seems like a minor inconvenience, one that most of us manage every day. But Tom Palmer believed the humble cutting board…

From dodging venomous vipers to finding water in the desert, a veteran producer reveals the high-stakes process of picking locations for hits like ‘Naked and Afraid.’Listen to this articleListenThe author in South Africa (Photo: Rachel Maguire)Published April 8, 2026 03:25AMHave you ever watched your favorite outdoor reality show and wondered what it’s like to pick the location? Most shows are shot in a studio or a controlled environment, but when you venture into the great outdoors, the game changes. As an adventure and survival television producer, with 25 years under my belt, the most important part of any show that…

Entrepreneurs displaying narcissistic behavior are better able to convince investors to give them money when their grandiosity comes across as confidence as opposed to defensiveness or arrogance.That’s what we learned from watching 12 seasons of the popular reality TV show Shark Tank to better understand how an entrepreneur’s psychological profile affects their ability to secure funding.My research focuses on how entrepreneurs respond to challenges, including how personality affects their work. My colleagues and I based our study off the concept that there are two distinct “flavors” of narcissism: narcissistic admiration and narcissistic rivalry.Narcissistic admiration means wanting others to like you…