Author: KnowledgeHippo
Lauren Eager majored in economics in high school. It was a way to find cheap, interesting clothes without contributing to the waste of fast fashion.In 2015, her freshman year of college, she downloaded the app for Poshmark, a kind of Instagram-meets-eBay resale platform. Soon, he was selling as well as buying clothes.This was the golden age of online reselling. In addition to Poshmark, companies such as ThredUp and Depop had emerged, giving a second life to old clothes. In 2016, Facebook debuted Marketplace. Even Goodwill got in on the act, launching a sleek website.The platforms tapped into two consumer trends:…
The months-long fight by lawmakers to ban social media app TikTok in the United States came to a head on Friday when the Supreme Court heard arguments to decide the app’s fate for its 170 million American users.While justices across the ideological spectrum asked tough questions of both sides, the overall tone and thrust appeared to indicate greater skepticism toward arguments by TikTok’s lawyers and its users that the First Amendment barred Congress from enacting the law.If TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, is indeed blocked on January 19, here’s what users can expect to happen:Will TikTok still be available…
Most of us don’t think about pain until we have it. And when we do, it’s usually something we get over after a few days or weeks. This was my experience, until the summer of 2023. One day I woke up and found that my hands hurt. There was no obvious explanation, nothing I had done. The pain was intense. I couldn’t do many things: drive, cook, type, even sleep. I have always been a healthy person who did a lot of sports and thought this strange pain was just bad luck. But as the weeks turned into months and…
Plains has no large hotel, a small gas station, and only a few restaurants, none of which are usually open for dinner. However, for the longest time, the tiny town had something that no other place in Georgia had: Jimmy Carter made it his home.Especially as Mr. Carter retired from public life, the city had years to prepare for life after him. But now that he’s gone – Mr. Carter died last month aged 100 – the town hopes its prospects as a tourist destination have not been buried with its most famous son.Optimism in the Plains is based on…
Israeli security and political chiefs were expected to arrive in Qatar on Sunday for high-level talks on a proposed Gaza ceasefire deal that would free hostages in the final days of President Biden’s term and before Donald J.Biden administration officials have been pushing for a deal that would become part of the outgoing president’s legacy, and Mr. Trump warned that “all hell will break loose in the Middle East” if Hamas does not release the hostages before his inauguration on January 20.Negotiations at a lower level have begun in recent weeks after months of deadlock.While some progress has been made,…
Two billion parking spaces fill the country, according to some estimates. That’s about seven seats for each car, totaling an area roughly the size of West Virginia.For some people, it’s too much.Freeing up space, housing advocates, environmentalists and real estate developers say, can make room for desperately needed housing development and help make cities more walkable and less dependent on cars.”Having some parking is important,” said Dirk Aulabaugh, head of global advisory services at Green Street, a real estate analytics firm. “But does it have to be what we’ve had historically? I think the answer is no.”Hundreds of cities and…
An unpaid group of billionaires, tech executives and some disciples of Peter Thiel, a powerful Republican donor, are preparing to take unofficial positions in the US government in the name of cost-cutting.As President-elect Donald J.’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency Trump is preparing to send people with ties to his co-chief executives, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, to jobs across the federal government. .After Inauguration Day, the group of wide-eyed, Silicon Valley-leaning recruits will grow into the alphabet soup of Washington agencies. The goal is for most major companies to eventually have two DOGE representatives as they seek to reduce…
I didn’t fully understand the limits of my body until last June, when I fell down my fire escape and floated out of myself in a near-death experience like those of Peter Fenwick – a psychiatrist who researched end-of-life phenomena — documented during his career. (Dr. Fenwick died on November 22 at age 89.)I was at my own housewarming party, standing at the firehouse with two friends, when I fell, falling about 12 feet and hitting my head. I lost consciousness for several minutes.As my friends say, the paramedics arrived quickly, peeled the screen from a window on the second…
It kills more people every year than car accidents, war or drugs. This invisible killer is air pollution from sources such as cars and trucks or factory smokestacks.But as wildfires intensify and become more frequent in a warming world, smoke from those fires is emerging as a new and deadly source of pollution, health experts say. According to some estimates, wildfire smoke – which contains a mixture of dangerous air pollutants such as particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, ozone and lead – already causes up to 675,000 premature deaths annually worldwide, as well as a range of respiratory, heart and other…
While waiting for a call from his agent in September, Isaac Rochell, a professional football player looking for a team, watched the opening weekend games of the National Football League on television with his daughter. His wife needed a sitter.Allison Kucharczyk, Rochell’s wife and an online influencer with more than three million TikTok followers, was closer to the venue than thanks to a partnership with NBC Sports. He crossed continents on a private jet with other content creators to document a weekend of noisy tailgates, concession food and stadium environments at NFL games in Kansas City, Mo. Sao Paulo, Brazil;…