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Most people assume Dubai became rich from oil, but oil now accounts for less than 1% of the emirate's GDP — down from 50% in the 1980s — with tourism, trade, an…

Dubai is routinely treated as an oil city because it is wealthy, Gulf-based and visually associated with the wider United ...
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Thought of the day by Stoic philosopher Epictetus: "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants"

I have moved between Ireland and Southeast Asia year after year for a while now, and one thing has crept up on me quietly. My ...
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India just objected to a WhatsApp feature that hasn't launched, citing harms that haven't happened — and the precedent it sets could quietly redraw how secure me…

When a government objects to a feature that has not yet launched, over harms that have not yet occurred, and demands the ...
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A single lightning bolt heats the air around it to roughly 30,000 degrees Celsius, about five times hotter than the surface of the Sun, and the thunder you hear is tha…

A lightning bolt heats the narrow channel of air it travels through to roughly 30,000°C — about five times hotter than the ...
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Helsing's $18B valuation is not really about Helsing — private markets are pricing European rearmament as a multi-decade procurement cycle, and the capital is positi…

Munich-based defence AI company Helsing has closed a $1.8 billion Series E at an $18 billion valuation, according to Tech.eu ...
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Psychology says people who reach their 60s with few close friends aren't bad at relationships — they're often the ones who gave so much in every relationship that …

A person can reach their 60s with only a few close friends for reasons that have little to do with being bad at relationships ...
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Singapore had almost no natural resources when it became independent in 1965 — so it invested in education, imported capital and exported increasingly sophisticate…

Singapore's rise is often told as a neat parable: a small island with almost no natural resources became rich by being ...
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Across 1,252 people in 10 studies, researchers found that even a five-minute dose of green exercise lifted mood and self-esteem

In 2010, two researchers at the University of Essex tried to answer this question. They pooled the results of 10 separate UK ...
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Thought of the day by Stoic philosopher Epictetus: "It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it, that matters"

The numbers do not care how hard you work. Roughly 22.1 percent of new private-sector businesses fail within their first year ...
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Psychology says people who go years without a close friend in life aren't antisocial, they're often the ones who found early on that needing people too much made thin…

There's a certain kind of person you learn to spot if you've ever run a room full of tables. They come in alone, order well, ...
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Nobody talks about what happens when the agency writing federal cybersecurity standards has no director, no playbook, and a third fewer staff — CISA's May 2026 l…

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has admitted it began writing its incident response playbook ...
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The Greenland shark drifts through Arctic water at the pace of a slow walk and doesn't reach sexual maturity until roughly 150 years old, meaning individuals cruisi…

Greenland sharks swim at a foot per second, grow a centimeter a year, and don't reach sexual maturity until roughly 150 years ...