The Best Companies for Future Leaders

 Posted on August 6, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  579 words  |  Kelle Repass

How TIME and Statista Determined the Best Colleges and Companies for Future Leaders Americans often envision themselves climbing the corporate ladder within one company to rise into leadership. But today, getting to the c-suite is more often a matter of “building your brand” and moving from company to company, says Peter Cappelli, professor of management at The Wharton School. “Companies are not hiring for potential much anymore,” he says. “There’s an awful lot of lateral movement. [Read More]

The Press: Ombudsman in Louisville

 Posted on August 6, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  463 words  |  Patria Henriques

Of all the institutions in our inordinately complacent society, none is so addicted as the press to self-righteousness, self-satisfaction and self-congratulation. The words are not those of some member of the Nixon Administration but of a working newsman, the assistant editorial-page editor of the New York Times. When A.H. Raskin wrote them three years ago, he suggested that newspapers combat their smugness by appointing ombudsman-like editors to investigate readers’ complaints. The suggestion has been largely ignored by U. [Read More]

The True Story Behind The Last Duel

 Posted on August 6, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1573 words  |  Billy Koelling

Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Last Duel. “Do you swear on your life that what you say is true?” This question, posed to Marguerite de Carrouges (Jodie Comer), encapsulates the true history behind The Last Duel, director Ridley Scott’s new film opening in theaters Oct. 15. Based on the 2004 book of the same name by Eric Jager, a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles and a specialist in medieval literature, the film uses its titular event—the last judicial duel in French history, held in Paris in December 1386—to delve deeply into the Middle Ages’ complex politics of gender, female agency, religious morality and sexual ethics. [Read More]

This Strongman Had to Drink Eddie Hall's Sweat After Losing a Cardio Challenge

 Posted on August 6, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  253 words  |  Patria Henriques

The trio start off with an intense cardio workout, working up a serious sweat. Hall then decides to challenge the brothers to a disgusting challenge. The three men ring their sweat into individual cups. The one who sweat the least during the half hour cardio session has to wait for it drink all of the sweat collected from the three strongmen. Hall refers to it as "three men, one cup. [Read More]

Watch final trailer featuring Mike Colter

 Posted on August 6, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  134 words  |  Kelle Repass

"Luke Cage" is an upcoming American web television series based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. The series stars Mike Colter as Luke Cage, a former convict with superhuman strength and unbreakable skin who now fights crime. When a sabotaged experiment gives him super strength and unbreakable skin, Luke Cage becomes a fugitive attempting to rebuild his life in Harlem and must soon confront his past and fight a battle for the heart of his city. [Read More]

What It's Really Like to Have a 4-Day Workweek

 Posted on August 6, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1823 words  |  Kelle Repass

To many people in corporate America, working five days a week—Monday to Friday, 9 to 5—feels as habitual as brushing their teeth. But it wasn’t always that way. In the late 1800s, a full-time manufacturing worker could easily spend 100 hours per week on the job. It wasn’t until around 1940, after a concerted push from labor unions, that the 40-hour workweek became standard in the U.S. Now, almost a century later, there’s growing momentum for an even more condensed schedule, with major companies—including Panasonic, Kickstarter, and the online thrift store ThredUp—trying out four-day workweeks. [Read More]

What These 4 Charts Tell Us About Homelessness in America

 Posted on August 6, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1270 words  |  Billy Koelling

People don’t usually become homeless suddenly. It’s often a chutes and ladders process, except with lots of chutes and hardly any ladders. And there’s a period right before they slide into having nowhere to live, during which, many experts believe, a couple of well-placed nets might be able divert them from being forced to sleep on the streets, in their cars, or other places that are not meant as homes. [Read More]

White Desert: Worlds Greatest Places 2024

 Posted on August 6, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  505 words  |  Patria Henriques

Patrick Woodhead has spent months in the ­Antarctic wilderness, setting records as part of the youngest and fastest team to reach the South Pole in 2002, and later as leader of the first team to make an east-to-west traverse. Once, trapped in an expedition tent during a storm, he fantasized about enabling travelers to immerse themselves in the sense of remoteness and isolation one experiences on the high polar plateau, only with gourmet meals and a cozy bed. [Read More]

Why Lowercase G Is the Alphabet's Hardest Letter to Write

 Posted on August 6, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  716 words  |  Tandra Barner

The alphabet is a little like a baseball team. You’ve got your everyday players—your A’s and E’s and S’s. Then you’ve got your benchwarmers—your X’s and Q’s and Z’s. They’ve got character, but you’re not going to go a whole nine innings with them. If we don’t use all 26 letters the same amount, we at least recognize them equally, right? Not so much. A new study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance reveals that there’s one letter we think we know well, but we don’t: The lower case “g. [Read More]

10 Questions with Carli Lloyd

 Posted on August 5, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  628 words  |  Martina Birk

What’s been the coolest thing to happen since you scored three goals in the World Cup final–and became one of the most famous people in America? The ticker-tape parade in New York City. People in windows dressed in red, white and blue chanting our names, paper flying everywhere. To know that people are so inspired by me and my teammates is incredible. What’s been the biggest challenge in managing instant fame? [Read More]