• Report: Luxury Home Prices Reach Record Highs

    Prices for luxury homes in the United States have reached a record high, rising nearly nine percent in the first quarter of 2024, twice as much as the prices of non-luxury homes.

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    • Ipsos

    Ipsos Earth Day Report 2024 - NZ edition

    Climate change: as the world heats up, willingness to act is falling. Ipsos releases a 33-country study as part of Earth Day, looking at how attitudes to climate change are changing.

  • March 2024, the warmest March on record, according to the NCEI

    After some warmer weather earlier this week it has cooled down a bit.

    • GQ

    This $3.5 Million Rolex Just Set an Auction Record

    Want more insider watch coverage? Get Box + Papers, GQ's newsletter devoted to the watch world, sent to your inbox every Friday. Sign up here. This must be the most expensive cheese knife ever sold. Over the weekend at the Monaco Legend Group auctions, a sharp yellow blade meant for dicing up Gruyères and Comtés, with the phrase “It’s a Good Watch” printed on it, hammered for $3.5 million. Oh, and it also happened to come with a one-of-12 Rolex chronograph that was never made available to the...

  • Luxury real estate prices just hit an all-time record

    BOOM: Luxury real estate prices hit all-time record (Third column, 9th story, link) Related stories:BUST: Mall favorite EXPRESS bankrupt

  • Our galaxy's largest black hole has been discovered close to Earth: Report

    The Debrief recently reported that scientists from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission have located a black hole with a mass of 33 solar masses, which makes it the largest black hole of stellar origin ever discovered in the Milky Way galaxy.The discovery, which was found after Gaia's fourth data release, could shed new light on the formation and prevalence of black holes throughout the known universe.The black hole, which has been named Gaia BH3, is part of a binary system located around...

  • Taylor Swift (and her tortured poets) just blew up her own Spotify records

    Taylor Swift has once again stolen a record from herself—which must be a nice change of pace, after all that shit that went down with her masters a few years back—with Spotify announcing today that Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, has already smashed the record for most streamed albums in a single day. A record previously held by one Taylor Swift, for 2022's Midnights, which just barely managed to fend off a challenge last year from 1989 (Taylor’s Version) by Swift, T. ...

  • Amazon denies reports it started a business just to spy on rivals

    Amazon set up a company called Big River Services in 2015 that sold items such as t-shirts, shoes, and beach chairs, writes The Wall Street Journal, part of Project Curiosity, a program designed to compare rival businesses against Amazon's own.Read Entire Article

  • ADL: Reported antisemitic incidents up 140% in 2023, shattering records

    (JNS) — In part due to the unleashing of Jew-hatred in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, antisemitism in the United States spiked by a record 140%, according to figures released by the Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday. Nearly 9,000 incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism—including more than 5,000 in the post-Oct. 7 period—were reported […]

  • Court rules against reporter’s death record request during pandemic

    The Ohio Supreme Court issued a decision Wednesday in a case that goes back to the height of the pandemic and a reporter’s request for death records.

    • CNN

    Ford just reported a massive loss on every electric vehicle it sold

    Ford’s electric vehicle unit reported that losses soared in the first quarter to $1.3 billion, or $132,000 for each of the 10,000 vehicles it sold in the first three months of the year, helping to drag down earnings for the company overall. Ford, like most automakers, has announced plans to shift from traditional gas-powered vehicles to EVs in coming years. But it is the only traditional automaker to break out results of its retail EV sales. And the results it reported Wednesday show another...