Get used to it: America's winters will be a lot less snowy from now on

Tech Insider : Sports, Economy
Outside a window, a child tries to muster up enough snow for a snowman but can't quite. Inside, a photo frame with the same child next to a giant snowman in a snowy version of the same landscape.
Last December was the warmest on record for much of the Midwest. It's the beginning of a new normal.

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From hiking in the Alps to snorkeling in Hawaii, it's never been a better time to be a DINK

Tech Insider : Economy
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More and more Americans see being a DINK as the key to a new American dream of financial stability, freedom of choice, and a comfortable retirement.

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Elizabeth Johnson and her husband hit the vacation circuit hard in 2023.

He was America's flashiest watch dealer. Then the feds caught up with him.

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Anthony Farrer, aka the Timepiece Gentleman, became famous for selling luxury watches. Then the Feds caught up with him.

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Casual friendships are dying out — and we're all worse off for it

Tech Insider : Economy
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Casual friendships are key to our emotional lives, but these "fringe friends" are slowly disappearing.

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Nikol Moses felt the itch to head somewhere new.

America's Zoomtowns are suffering from some nasty growing pains

Tech Insider : Economy
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America's midsize cities exploded over the past few years. Now residents, new and old, are fighting over housing, traffic, and local culture.

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America's new gender war

Tech Insider : Politics
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Young women are becoming more liberal while young men are turning to the right. It all started with #MeToo.

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They're getting ready for the downfall of America. Just don't call them preppers.

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
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Residents of Riverbed Ranch are building their own small town from scratch. The goal? Survive if America collapses.

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Gen Z and millennials should be thanking boomers, not bashing them

Tech Insider : Economy
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For all the flak the older generation gets, baby boomers have left millennials and Gen Z with a better and richer America.

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The year of the revenge profit

Tech Insider : Economy
An illustration of Taylor Swift holding up a bright purple

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Taylor Rue turned a public shaming into a paycheck.

Remote work stifles innovation, a massive new study finds

Tech Insider : Economy, Technology
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Andrea Chronopoulos for BI

Before the pandemic, most managers assumed that working from home was a productivity killer. Without the discipline of an office, they thought, employees would lounge around in their pajamas, binge Netflix, and get nothing done.

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