Oklahoma Business Briefs

Fathers showed smaller, less statistically significant brain changes than mothers. Parenting makes the heart grow fonder, and the brain grow … smaller? Several studies have revealed that the brain loses volume across the transition to parenthood. But researchers like me are still figuring out what these changes mean for parents.

What aspiring founders and entrepreneurs can learn from this CEO who left Wall Street in his 40s to start a space company. I vividly recall defining my life mission: “To lead, inspire, and create the business of space for the benefit of all.” It wasn’t a passing notion but the result of weeks of intense self-exploration during my time at Harvard Business School, setting the tone for my life’s journey and the birth of Spire Global a decade later.

Here’s a quick look at one of the key forces that can determine whether a storm will become a destructive hurricane. Weather forecasters talk about wind shear a lot during hurricane season, but what exactly is it?

In an overcrowded market, good branding is the difference between failure and success for modern nongovernmental organizations. The nongovernmental organization (NGO) industry is at a turning point. With an oversaturation of donation drives attempting to raise money through pity or guilt, many NGOs are struggling to achieve sustainable engagement and impact in the absence of strong, clear branding.

The government hasn’t disclosed to the public the national security concerns cited in the TikTok law. TikTok, the short-video company with Chinese roots, did the most American thing possible on May 7, 2024: It sued the U. S. government, in the person of Attorney General Merrick Garland, in federal court.

American Airlines, facing lawsuits after a flight attendant allegedly filmed girls using plane bathrooms, is blaming a 9-year-old girl for being secretly recorded. The airline in a new court filing is arguing that the young girl should have known that the airplane toilet contained a recording device. “Defendant would show that any injuries or illnesses alleged to have been sustained by Plaintiff, Mary Doe, were proximately caused by Plaintiff’s own fault and negligence,” American Airlines’ lawyers wrote in their defense filing. The airline’s attorneys added about the 9-year-old girl using “the compromised lavatory” on the plane: “She knew or should have known contained a visible and illuminated recording device.” The lawsuits against American Airlines started after a former flight attendant was arrested in connection with allegedly recording a 14-year-old girl in a plane’s bathroom on a Boston-bound flight. Estes Carter Thompson III, 36, of Charlotte, N.