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As the Senate moves to consider banning forced arbitration in age-discrimination cases, it’s time for companies to act to support older workers. For nearly 50 years, Joanne Grace served her Ohio community as a registered nurse and, later, as a patient advocate. She loved her job and her patients, who benefited tremendously from the care only someone with her deep experience can bring. 

As the government opens up investigations into multiple companies developing autonomous vehicles, some wonder whether the tech can really be slowed down. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s recently announced investigation into self-driving company Waymo is just the latest of many such probes.

Resilience is not something you have to practice or build. It’s not mental toughness or control. It’s not avoiding, denying, or fixing your feelings. Opinions about resilience are like belly buttons—everyone has one. But whatever your view, there’s no denying we live in unprecedented times that require the best of us, which includes courage, clarity, compassion, and creativity.

In their new book, Ilya Strebulaev and Alex Dang explore what venture capitalists can teach us about working more efficiently. “I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities—and found no statues of committees,” proclaimed the famous British writer G. K. Chesterton. VCs are well aware of inefficiencies and biases in groups; they also know that these biases are particularly dangerous in a highly uncertain world.

The Vipp Pedal Bin has been reinterpreted by artists including Damien Hirst and Yoko Ono. Now, contemporary artist Alice Ronchi is putting her own spin on the classic. In the vast, ancient world of product design, there’s one 85-year-old classic so iconic that it’s served as a muse for dozens of artists, including Bono, Yoko Ono, Yves Behar, and Damien Hirst.

Before the pandemic, Colorado recorded some of the strongest population growth in the country, with many newcomers settling in metro Denver and up and down the northern Front Range. But the latest Census numbers, released Thursday, show 13 of the state’s largest towns and cities, defined as those with a population of 20,000 or more, have fewer people than they did on July 1, 2020.