Episode description

‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Chaos Strikes Global Shipping, Global heating pushes tropical regions towards limits of human livability, 'Why Us?': A Year After Being Laid Off, Millions Are Still Unemployed, The 5-Hour Workday Gets Put to the Test,  and the problem with the fitness industry.   

‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Chaos Strikes Global Shipping - source

The pandemic has disrupted international trade, driving up the cost of shipping goods and adding a fresh challenge to the global economic recovery.

Global heating pushes tropical regions towards limits of human livability - source 1, source 2

"Dangerous conditions in the tropics will unfold even before the 1.5C threshold, however, with the paper warning that 1C of extreme wet-bulb temperature increase “could have adverse health impact equivalent to that of several degrees of temperature increase”. The world has already warmed by around 1.1C on average due to human activity and although governments vowed in the Paris climate agreement to hold temperatures to 1.5C, scientists have warned this limit could be breached within a decade."

New research on the lethal wet bulb temperature, suggest that things are happening faster than expected, sooner than expected.

'Why Us?': A Year After Being Laid Off, Millions Are Still Unemployed - source

Adriana Kugler, an economics professor at Georgetown University and a former chief economist at the Labor Department, says the number of long-term unemployed is probably an undercount. Factor in all the people who have found only part-time work or who have dropped out of the labor force altogether, and the problem could be more profound. "All in all, that takes us to an unemployment rate that's closer to the double digits," Kugler says. "The magnitude of the problem is huge."

The 5-Hour Workday Gets Put to the Test - source

At the firm he renamed Rheingans Digital Enabler, the 16 employees start work at 8 a.m. and may leave at 1 p.m.  Mr. Rheingans, the firm's managing director, says employees can deliver the same output during a focused 25-hour week as in 40 hours interrupted with distractions.

“We have all experienced that: We sit in the office, out of energy, reading newspapers online or Facebook, just in need of the little pauses to recharge, but you don’t really recharge,” he says. “My idea is focusing on the first five hours and then just leave, and have a proper break.”

The problem with the fitness industry - source

"And that’s a massive problem with the fitness industry — they sell us a look that is unattainable in a natural way. Their marketing tells us that we can look like this if we use this piece of equipment or use this diet or supplement."

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