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Effective leadership isn’t just about giving orders—it’s about truly hearing your team. Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol believes that listening more and talking less is the most underrated skill a leader can have. Source link
Market performance tends to dominate the conversation about risks to a retirement plan. But spending shocks can also curb a retirement portfolio’s longevity. In Morningstar’s research, we examined the implications of two major types of spending shocks: unanticipated early retirement and uninsured long-term care expenses at the end of life. The former may necessitate spending over a longer period, often with higher healthcare costs in the pre-Medicare years, while the latter can translate into an effective “balloon payment” toward the end of life.Early retirementEarly retirement — before the standard age of 65 — is an increasingly common scenario. While Social…
In his news conference Monday, President Donald Trump threatened to blow up every bridge and power plant in Iran, action that would be so far-reaching that some experts in military law said it could constitute a war crime.The issue could turn on whether the power plants were legitimate military targets, whether the attacks were proportional compared with what Iran has done and whether civilian casualties were minimized.Trump’s threat was so broad it did not seem to account for the harm to civilians, prompting Democrats in Congress, some United Nations officials and scholars in military law to say such strikes would…
After traveling deeper into space than any other humans, the Artemis II astronauts pointed their moonship toward home Monday night, wrapping up a lunar cruise that revealed views of the far side never beheld by eyes until now.Their flyby of the moon — NASA’s first return since the Apollo era — even included some celestial sightseeing besides yielding rich science. It was a significant step toward landing boot prints near the moon’s south pole in just two years.A total solar eclipse greeted the three Americans and one Canadian as the moon temporarily blocked the sun from their perspective. Mercury, Venus,…
It’s a good day for America’s largest health insurance stocks. The biggest players in America’s private, for-profit health insurance system, including UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (NYSE: UNH), Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), and CVS Health Corporation (NYSE: CVS), are all seeing their share prices rise after the Trump administration announced it will backtrack on earlier proposals and increase Medicare insurer payments significantly more than expected. Here’s what you need to know.What’s happened?On Monday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency that manages America’s government-funded health programs, including Medicare, announced that it would increase payments to Medicare insurers by…
Beyond spaceAcross the deep well of companies founded by SpaceX alums, you’ll notice that many are tackling problems that to a nonexpert might seem to teeter along the edge of what’s currently imaginable. There’s Airhart Aeronautics, cofounded and led by Nikita Ermoshkin, a former SpaceX avionics systems and integration engineer, which is building personal airplanes designed with a simple control panel that (the hope is) anyone, basically, could fly. At SpaceX, Jaret Matthews was a mechanism group leader for the Dragon spacecraft. His company, Astrolab, is currently developing commercial planetary rovers that could soon land on the moon, and one…
That uneasiness reaches beyond the right to bear arms. It’s increasingly affecting people’s ability to pursue a seemingly unrelated hobby: 3D printing.State lawmakers across the United States are debating—and in some cases nearing passage of—rules that would require 3D printers to include mandatory “print blocker” software. These systems would scan files and refuse jobs they think might produce firearm parts. Washington’s HB 2321 would require printers or slicers to screen files and reject potential printouts that could be used in a weapon. California’s AB 2047 would require manufacturers to attest that each model sold in the state includes a certified…
Published April 7, 2026 03:15AMEvery morning I take my nine-pound Schnauzer on a mile-long walk around the neighborhood for poopies and sniffing. We repeat the journey just before bedtime. If I were to continue this daily mileage, it would take me ten years and four months to walk the distance that a hiker named Nick Gagnon recently covered in a single continuous push. In 2025, Gagnon, who goes by the trail name “Chezwick,” did the so-called Triple Crown of thru-hiking, completing the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), Continental Divide Trail (CDT), and Appalachian Trail (AT) back-to-back-to-back. That’s about 7,525 miles on…
Given its $24 billion price tag and two decades in development, one would think that the Artemis II mission’s Orion spaceship would be flawless. Alas, that’s not how things work in the space program. These machines’ designs are so complex and so many things can go wrong that there is always going to be a breaking point somewhere. Sometimes this involves comical but potentially dangerous consequences—like Artemis II’s toilet malfunction or its Microsoft Outlook glitches—while other times there are tragic endings, like the losses of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia and their crews. Still, I wasn’t expecting a “use…
Published April 7, 2026 03:27AMI stepped off the bus from Tokyo and into a dense fog. The town of Kazuno, in Japan’s rural Akita prefecture, looked nearly abandoned. I’d arrived expecting the pastoral whimsy of a Miyazaki film. Instead, I seemed to have wandered into a level of Silent Hill.I crisscrossed the street, peering into mostly vacant shop windows, many of them plastered with flyers warning locals about bears. I saw more signs of bear safety when two elementary-aged girls passed me. Small golden bells hung from their backpacks, and long after the little girls disappeared into the fog ahead,…