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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…

The National Capital Planning Commission has voted to approve President Donald Trump’s controversial White House ballroom plans, greenlighting the demolition of the historic East Wing to make way for a new neoclassical structure. But the ballroom is just one piece of a much bigger picture. Last year, the president signed an executive order mandating that new federal buildings return to a “traditional and classical” style, sparking a fierce debate among architects about who gets to decide what American democracy looks like. On this episode of FC Explains, staff writer Nate Berg breaks down the design agenda behind MAGA architecture, who is…

You don’t need to have a technical background — in this session, you’ll build a simple, custom AI assistant that already understands your business, your preferences, and your processes, so you’re never starting from scratch when you open an AI tool.In just 30 minutes, you’ll set up an assistant that remembers your workflows, your brand voice, and your goals, so it can help you move faster on the work you’re already doing.You’ll walk away with a streamlined personal AI setup that works across tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and more — all with skills as basic as sending an…