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The Chore Is Not the Whole Job
Household fairness is easier to discuss when couples count the noticing, deciding and checking that happen before and after a visible task.
Behind the Lens: Meet NASA Johnson’s Photographers
Photographers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have documented some of the most defining moments in human spaceflight. From astronaut training and engineering tests to mission
Why We Regret What We Didn't Do More Than What We Did
Ask people to name their biggest regret and, given enough time, most name something they never tried — a well-documented pattern that says less about morality and more about how memory keeps unfinished stories open.
The People Who Actually Change Your Life Are Usually Not Your Close Friends
A 1973 sociology paper found that people were more likely to hear about a new job from someone they barely knew than from a close friend. Fifty years on, the idea still explains something odd about how opportunity actually travels.
AI and Your Job: The Five Levels That Actually Matter
AI is already doing real slices of skilled work, from hospital paperwork to heart-attack screening. How much control it is given over a task, not the technology itself, decides what changes for you.
NASA Astronaut Mike Fincke Leaves NASA, Career Includes 4 Spaceflights
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is departing the agency on Wednesday after 30 years of service. Throughout his career, he flew four missions, spent 549 days in space, and completed nine spacewalks in suppo
The Four-Day Week After the Hype: Shorter Hours Work Only When Work Changes
The strongest trials did not merely squeeze Friday into Thursday; organisations redesigned meetings, priorities and handoffs before reducing time.
Getting outside despite your 9-to-5 job can improve your mental health – here’s how to spend time in nature during and around working hours
Sometimes the best escape isn’t a weekend away. It’s the park just down the road.
Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain
Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.
Palestinians are being locked out of the digital economy
A new 7amleh report finds Palestinians are systematically excluded from digital payments, e-commerce, and remote work — structural barriers that deepen economic strangulation under occupation
Employers everywhere are using AI – but business schools aren’t preparing students for the shift
Amid the rise of AI, researchers found that employers still value skills like communication, professionalism and teamwork among prospective and new employees.
Unemployment is falling, but the labour market is emptying out: people are disappearing, not jobs
A drop in unemployment is not automatically good news if it happens mainly because people are vanishing from the labour market.
July US jobs data and the Sahm rule: why slower hiring alone may not mean a recession — QMA Brain Analysis
QMA Brain Analysis: July jobs data isn't just about the headline payrolls number: a harder read comes from combining the Sahm-rule unemployment signal, jobless claims, JOLTS layoffs
Weak ADP and a hidden risk: healthcare may be masking a cooldown in manufacturing and construction — QMA Brain Analysis
QMA Brain Analysis: A weak ADP print needs to be read through the composition of jobs: healthcare can be masking a cooldown in manufacturing, construction and materials, which often matters more for company earnings