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I’ve been told countless times that the hardest part about getting a job at my dream company (Nickelodeon — spoiler alert, I got it!) is getting my foot in the door. I refreshed my resume and practiced answering many common interview questions, including “What is your greatest weakness?” This question never fails to trip me […]
Every three years the US Federal Reserve conducts a survey of American’s finances. This study, called the US Survey of Consumer Finances (SCR), is a representative picture of the wealth of America. It details the assets and liabilities of participants in the studies, and also shows their income, demographic characteristics, and changes in American wealth […]
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For decades, schools and community organizations have worked to get more girls to “see themselves” as scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. The largest study to date of children’s gender stereotypes in STEM suggests both girls and boys become alienated from the subjects as they grow older—but not always in the ways educators assumed. Stereotypes about girls […]
Newgrange, County Meath, Ireland From the outside it looks like a grass-covered UFO, its curved, chalk-white walls gleaming amid the green countryside. Yet inside is one of the most impressive prehistoric constructions in Europe. Rediscovered in 1699, but only excavated in the 1960s, Newgrange in the Boyne Valley is a Neolithic passage tomb that has […]
Peter Dutton says Bali Nine ‘aren’t national heroes’ Opposition leader Peter Dutton believes a message needs to be sent to young Australians about the danger of drug use and distribution, after the news that members of the Bali Nine drug smuggling group have returned to Australia. Dutton said Anthony Albanese should be transparent about whether […]
Google DeepMind is showing off an AI assistant that sees and a Chrome extension that can browse the web on its own. They’re for testing purposes only—and that makes sense. Few tech-industry traditions are as time-honored as vaporware: stuff that gets publicly demoed well before it’s ready to ship. In some cases, the companies in […]
Saturday Night Live has served as a launching pad to TV superstardom (Tina Fey and Bill Hader), dominance at the box office (Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray and Will Ferrell) and even #1 music albums (Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi). But not every SNL star goes on to greater showbiz heights. Here are five comedians who killed on […]
There’s nothing quite like discovering a beauty product so good, it becomes an instant staple in your routine. But when that new find also happens to be affordable? That’s the kind of joy that makes us want to shout it from the mountaintops (or, more realistically, share it with the group chat). And, when it […]