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The Price Of Love: Hidden Costs Of Modern Dating

Key Takeaway: The average American spends $120,000 on romantic activities, leading to a significant amount of “dating debt” among millennials and Gen Z. This debt accumulation is attributed to the desire to signal status and the persuasive retail marketing of luxury as synonymous with love. Luxury brands like Gucci and Tiffany use strategic marketing tactics […]
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Alyn Watkins, Founder of Bravera

Alyn’s Platform Helps Businesses Attract New Customers and Helps Customers Stay Fit What’s your story?I’m originally from the valleys of South Wales, I am a passionate, unconventional, hard-worker that has never taken the easy path. I arrived in China without any Mandarin, worked three jobs while completing my master’s degree, managed nationwide “under-the-cap” mobile marketing […]
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Sebastien Lepez, Founder & CEO of Jolt Digital

Sebastien Lepez Is Changing the Advertising Industry by Combining Humans + Technologies What’s your story?I spent 18 years working in Advertising and Marketing for corporate companies before finally making the leap of faith and following my dream of launching my own business: Jolt Digital.  I worked for the biggest advertising companies (WPP, Omnicom, Interpublic) and […]
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David Pagotto, Founder & Managing Director of SIXGUN

David Pagotto’s SIXGUN, executes powerful search engine and social media marketing campaigns to targeted audiences, analyses the results in real-time to continually improve performance and ensure sustainable client business growth What’s your story?I’m the typical business owner whose interest in business began as a kid, and as high school progressed, I started importing goods from […]

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Is Cosmology About to Rewrite Everything We Know?

Key Takeaway: Cosmology is facing a series of uncertainties due to inconsistent predictions of the standard model, which posits the universe is composed of 68.3% dark energy, 26.8% dark matter, and 4.9% ordinary matter. The Hubble constant, which describes the rate of the universe’s expansion, has been a significant issue, with some scientists using different […]
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The Comeback Of China’s Tech Billionaires: A New Dawn Or Controlled Market?

Key Takeaway: Pony Ma, co-founder of Tencent Holdings, has regained the title of China’s richest individual with a net worth of over A$65 billion. His rise reflects Beijing’s control over its private sector, which aligns with the state’s goals in China’s unique “socialist market economy.” Tencent’s success, including the AAA video game “Black Myth: Wukong,” […]
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Rethinking Wealth: Why GDP Isn’t Enough

Key Takeaway: Inclusive wealth, a concept that includes not just economic output but also natural resources, human skills, and social networks, is gaining traction among international institutions like the World Bank and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). This broader measure of a nation’s well-being aims to address the limitations of GDP, which focuses only […]
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The Dark Side Of No Sleep

Key Takeaway: The “no-sleep challenge” has become a dangerous trend on social media, with some individuals trying to break world records for consecutive days without sleep. Sleep is essential for survival, as it helps the body repair itself and prevents health problems like depression, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and a shortened lifespan. Chronic sleep deprivation […]
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Volcanoes On The Moon?

Key Takeaway: China’s Chang’e 5 mission has challenged long-held assumptions about the Moon’s volcanic past, suggesting eruptions occurred far more recently than expected. The lunar landscape might not have been as dormant as once believed, with volcanic activity on the Moon potentially being active as recently as 120 million years ago. The findings suggest that […]
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Freud’s Forgotten Theory: The Hidden Desires Behind Creativity and Genius

Key Takeaway: Sigmund Freud’s theory of sublimation aimed to explain why some people display extraordinary talent by transforming repressed sexual desires into creative or intellectual prowess. He believed that Leonardo da Vinci’s life and work exemplified this process, as he left many of his paintings unfinished and engaged in scientific experiments that derailed his artistic […]
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The Upcoming Revolution For Global Internet Access

Key Takeaway: High-altitude platform stations (HAPS) are emerging as a new frontier in communications technology, offering a unique blend of accessibility and affordability. Positioned between 4 and 30 miles above Earth, these stations bring telecommunications equipment closer to the surface than satellites, resulting in stronger, higher-capacity signals. Researchers have demonstrated that HAPS could provide high-speed […]
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How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning

I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […]
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