In case we forgot, a harsh reminder this week of how cruel communist Cuba can be| Opinion “It was Mayelín who gave visibility to the protests and to the repression of the authorities. That is why this sentence [has been imposed], as a way to punish her,” said Cuban lawyer Raudiel Peña ... 05/3/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
US condemns Cuba over long jail sentences imposed on protesters Thirteen protesters were found guilty of crimes including sedition and sabotage earlier this year after they took to the streets in August 2022 to vent their anger at lengthy power cuts. They were ... 04/29/2024 - 11:49 pm | View Link
Thaw begins in Trump-DeSantis relationship The Trump campaign said that DeSantis was the one who requested they sit down and talk. A third Florida man, real estate broker Steve Witkoff, set it up. The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey first ... 04/29/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
Long lines form and frustration grows as Cuba runs short of cash Alejandro Fonseca stood in line for several hours outside a bank in Havana hoping to withdraw Cuban pesos from an ATM. But the cash ran out when it was almost his turn. 04/27/2024 - 8:09 pm | View Link
6 Dreamy Caribbean Destinations You Haven’t Considered But Should Photo Credit: Gagliardi via Canva As Skift reports that up to 70% of Gen Z and Millennial travelers are looking for off-the-beaten-path travel experiences, ones their family and friends might not have ... 02/3/2024 - 6:29 am | View Link
University of Maine built a massive additive manufacturing device that can build houses, and a whole lot more.
In a warehouse at the University of Maine, there’s a gigantic new additive manufacturing machine named Factory of the Future 1.0. And if its developers are right, it could become the new way that many things get built.
Brunt is on a mission to design a better work boot for America’s 23.5 million tradespeople.
When we think of the shoe-obsessed consumer, our minds tend to go to women like Sex and the City‘s Carrie Bradshaw, who opted for Manolo Blahniks over a mortgage. But there’s a large segment of men who also obsess over shoes: specifically, the 23.5 million tradespeople—80% of whom are male—who work in construction, manufacturing, and warehousing.
In ‘Designed For Life’ designers describe their creative process and what makes a great product.
A light fixture made of seaweed. A dreamy, psychedelic laundry machine. A hairy bench fashioned out of agave leaves. All of these objects appear in the new book Designed for Life: The World’s Best Product Designers, published by Phaidon Press.
One of the nation’s fastest-growing cities relies on a vulnerable population of workers to fuel its economic explosion.
The first time Rosa saw snowflakes falling, she thought they were pieces of cotton. “I thought I was going to choke,” she told me.
Recent findings suggest, more than ever, that nonhuman animals are capable of suffering. Scientists are begging us to listen.
Can animals suffer? It’s a question that has been floated around classrooms and dinner tables for centuries, at least since philosopher Jeremy Bentham posed it over 200 years ago.
Stress hormones spike in the weeks before a performance evaluation. This chief people officer says this doesn’t have to be the case.
These days, performance reviews are getting a bad rap. They’re described as “awful,” “harmful,” and getting “more stressful.” This is understandable. No one wants to feel that their entire body of achievement at work across a year can be summarized in a few paragraphs, or with a handful of adjectives that might not do justice to all the effort they put in.