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Created on February 17, 2025 Global equities have rallied, led higher by technology companies, sending the NASDAQ 100 Index up to trade at an all-time high price. Global equities are mostly higher, driven higher by a rally in technology stocks. Recent hours saw this rally in the Chinese market, but it seems to have run out of steam towards the end of the trading day. However, the US-based NASDAQ 100 Index has traded into a new record high (futures off hours) after making a record high closing price at the end of last week. The S&P 500 Index future reached…

Imagine leaving your interview, feeling a mix of relief and excitement after a great conversation with the hiring manager. But there’s one more step to solidify that positive impression: the thank-you note. Often overlooked, this simple gesture could set you apart in a crowded field of candidates. In this article, I’m going to share exactly what to do (and NOT do) when thanking the employer, based on my experience as a recruiter. Highlights Send your thank-you email within 24 hours of the interview to keep your interaction fresh in the interviewer’s mind. Customize your thank you note after the interview to…

Bri­an Eno was think­ing about the pur­pose of art a decade ago, as evi­denced by his 2015 John Peel Lec­ture (pre­vi­ous­ly fea­tured here on Open Cul­ture). But he was also think­ing about it three decades ago, as evi­denced by A Year with Swollen Appen­dices, his diary of the year 1995 pub­lished by Faber & Faber. This year, that same house is bring­ing out What Art Does: An Unfin­ished The­o­ry, a new book on that very sub­ject writ­ten by Eno, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the artist and nov­el­ist Bette Adri­aanse, bet­ter known as Bette A. It deals with the ques­tions Eno lays…

A reader recently sent me a clip from Chris Williamson’s podcast. In the segment, Williamson discusses his evolving relationship with productivity: “Look, I come from a productivity background. When I first started this show, I was chatting shit about Pomodoro timers, and Notion external brains, and Ebbinhaus forgetting curves, and all of that. Right? I’ve been through the ringer, so I’m allowed to say, and, um, you realize after a while that it ends up being this weird superstitious rain dance you’re doing, this sort of odd sort of productivity rain dance, in the desperate hope that later that day…

Ladies and gentlemen, Meryl Streep has finally made her Saturday Night Live debut. Streep has never hosted nor appeared on SNL before Sunday, when she made her first-ever appearance during the long-running sketch show’s starry 50th anniversary special. The three-time Oscar-winner appeared in a recurring ‘Close Encounter’ sketch featuring SNL alum Kate McKinnon, whose character describes her NSFW alien abduction.READ MORE: Ryan Reynolds pokes fun at wife Blake’s legal drama on SNLLadies and gentlemen… Meryl Streep has finally made her Saturday Night Live debut. (NBC)READ MORE: Actress’ pockets filled with strange item on SNL red carpetThe sketch featured an all-star…

After nearly two years, Showtime’s hit series “Yellowjackets” is finally back for its third season. Though Season 1 was critically acclaimed, the second suffered from an unraveling narrative that oftentimes felt too chaotic for the grounded show this once was. (A classic example of a bloated sophomore season that didn’t understand that the languid pace and unanswered questions in its first were what made it so successful.) However, with Season 3, the show has allowed these questions to take hold again, slowing the series down and morphing it back into the show that captured viewers’ attention in 2021. Since escaping…

At one time in their career, Def Leppard made a statement that a band only releases a live album when they have run out of ideas. I’m not sure the actual count, but we are on maybe the fifth or sixth live album they’ve released now. And based on ‘Drastic Symphonies, I would say they are out of new ideas. With that aside, I’m still a massive fan and buy everything. In fact, back in April 2024 for Record Store Day, I got in line to get the very limited vinyl release of ‘One Night Only: Live at the Leadmill’…

On February 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it will be reducing its negotiated proportion of grant funding that goes to overhead, or “indirect costs,” to 15 percent across the board.  Indirect costs are basically fungible dollars that a research institution can spend however it wants. They are meant to cover all the ancillary services that researchers need, like human resources, information technology, buildings and grounds, and so on. When private foundations give grants, they generally require that 80, 85, or even 90 percent of the funding go to direct services, like research for research grants, so…

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Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bengaluru will look to continue their winning start when they take on each other in the fourth game of the ongoing Women’s Premier League 2025 (WPL 2025). The game is scheduled to be played at the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara on Monday (February 17). Both the teams have been off to a winning start in WPL 2025. Delhi Capitals began their campaign with a hard-fought 2-wicket win over first-ever WPL champions Mumbai Indians. After Mumbai Indians were bowled out for 164 runs, Delhi Capitals chased down the total on the very last ball of the…