Green Shoots Died On Vine

Who knew the web could look this good?! Modern web pages aren’t exactly what you’d call “minimal.” All text aside, they’re almost always overflowing with images, ads, and other extraneous elements.

If your December to-do list is growing a mile a minute, here’s how to set some boundaries and enjoy the final weeks of 2024. ‘Tis the season for feeling overwhelmed.

There are several things consumers should be thinking about when it comes to lead—and other heavy metals—in cinnamon. Spices bring up feelings of comfort, cultural belonging and holidays. They can make our homes smell amazing and our food taste delicious. They can satisfy our cravings, expand our culinary horizons and help us eat things that we might normally dislike.

Before retirement, a person may be more susceptible to present bias because their future labor income is uncertain, and they don’t yet feel an ownership of that money. The narrative of a miserly, Scrooge-like figure hoarding his wealth for years instead of enjoying his retirement might seem unbelievable—but unfortunately, it isn’t relegated only to fiction.

Disability inclusion challenges us to move beyond performative gestures and toward building systems that honor the value and potential of every individual. DEI initiatives have made invaluable strides, particularly in addressing racial and cultural inequities, although arguably there’s plenty more to be done. But as a hot topic of the boardroom and corporate strategies across sectors, I can’t help but recognize two truisms about DEI in America.

Marcus Tullius Cicero used gladiators’ physiques not to celebrate the republic’s valiant heroes, but to deride their bloated muscles as the embodiment of amoral tyranny. Neither “Gladiator” nor its cinematic sequel is particularly concerned with historical fact. For one thing, the emperor Marcus Aurelius had no intention of restoring the republic.