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Published March 27, 2026 03:00AMA volcano just erupted below Antarctica. Tremors reverberate underneath Earth’s terrain miles from the blast, prompting a massive tsunami to bury most major cities (and countries!) underwater. Dark ash fills the sky. People frantically call their loved ones just before phones become useless, and most can’t find an apocalypse-proof shelter in time. Those who do, stock up on the essentials like bottled water and what becomes one survivor’s holy grail: Bush’s Vegetarian Baked Beans.This disaster is the main thread of Hulu’s hit show Paradise, and that lucky survivor is med student Annie Clay, played by Shailene…

Below, Matt Kaplan shares five key insights from his new book, I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right.Matt is a science correspondent at The Economist, where he has written about everything from paleontology and parasites to virology and viticulture over the course of two decades. His writing has also appeared in National Geographic, New Scientist, Nature, and the New York Times.What’s the big idea?Science often suppresses bold, unconventional, or threatening ideas due to ego, hierarchy, competition, sexism, and fraud. This culture harms progress. To truly serve society, science needs structural and cultural reform that protects integrity and encourages intellectual…

In calendar year 2025, the U.S. recorded 4.06 million existing home sales—tying 2024 and coming in just below the 4.09 million recorded in 2023. That marks three straight years with the fewest U.S. existing home sales since 1995. However, when accounting for population growth, the slowdown is even more pronounced. The U.S. had around 99 million households in 1995, compared to roughly 135 million households in 2025. Adjusted for that larger population base, resale turnover over the past three years has been the lowest in more than four decades. You’d have to go back to around 1981—when mortgage rates briefly…

Most people don’t actually want to give up their phone.They just want it to stop tugging at them like a needy toddler.There’s a difference. One suggests extremism and poor reception. The other is far more sensible: learning how to live with technology without letting it quietly take charge of your attention, mood, and nervous system while pretending it’s being helpful.Because for most of us, the problem isn’t “addiction” in the dramatic sense. No one’s pawning the sofa for screen time. It’s accumulation. A thousand tiny habits layered together until checking becomes automatic and being offline feels faintly unsettling, like you’ve…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Top performers disengage first during AI disruption when leaders fail to provide clarity, purpose and trust. Four critical conversations — about direction, individual impact, ownership and personal benefit — are essential to retain and align top talent. The first people to disengage during AI disruption aren’t the weakest performers. They’re the strongest.I’ve seen this pattern across enterprises, startups, government organizations and nonprofits. While leaders focus on tools, pilots and roadmaps, top talent is asking a different set of questions: Where are we going? Do I still matter? Can I trust…

As businesses race to become AI-ready, job seekers are racing just as quickly to keep up. New data shows that candidates are getting the message: AI skills are showing up more often on resumes.But this change is exposing a deeper disconnect: the labor market increasingly rewards AI fluency, while the education system often discourages it.According to a new report from Monster.com, the number of resumes that mention AI skills has surged in just two years, going from 3.7% in 2023 to 12.8% last year. Per the report, the most notable increase was from 2024 to 2025 when the number of…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Through discussions with over 45 leaders, we uncovered seven leadership principles that fueled our journey from startup to market leader. These principles can be applied by leaders in any industry who are seeking both business and personal growth. At first, a startup often lacks resources but has a handful of driven people who know and trust each other to take ownership. As the company grows, they become the main driving force — leaders who build teams and departments. As growth accelerates and more people join, it becomes harder to ensure…

For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators, and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people’s mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation, and suicide.“The era of Big Tech invincibility is over,” said Sacha Haworth, executive director of The Tech Oversight Project. “After years of gaslighting from companies like Google and Meta, new evidence and testimony have pulled back the curtain and validated the harms young people and parents have been telling the world about for years.”While it’s too soon to tell if this week’s outcomes will lead to fundamental changes in how social media…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI makes software cheaper to build, but understanding real problems matters more than ever. Winning products separate assumptions from reality and continuously learn from real user behavior. The advantage shifts from coding speed to clarity of thinking and proximity to truth. I have had a software development studio for years. For many years, it had perfect sense: I was selling teams, hours and delivery. Clients understood it, I understood it, and everybody knew exactly what was being delivered in exchange for money.And then, somehow, in the last year or so,…

Hiring for white-collar jobs has been especially weak, part of what economists call a “low-hire, low-fire” job market in which businesses are largely holding onto their workers while hiring remains sluggish, making it difficult for younger workers to land permanent work.Technology is also shaking up the hiring process. Automated systems enable job seekers to easily apply to more jobs, but those same systems also makes it even tougher to get noticed. According to data from hiring platform Greenhouse, the average recruiter has 3.5 times more job applications to sift through than they did a few years earlier.But artificial intelligence has offered job…