Hardware: Apple NEO based on cell phone CPU
Smartphone CPUs now so powerful they run notebooks at high performance. And its repairable, unlike most recent tech.
Demographics
Education
Everything is Untrue
Gen Z/Generational issues
International/Global/Immigration
Immigration: The US exports humanities students and imports STEM students
Up to 45% of humanities students study abroad and develop global skills; hardly any STEM students do this as their course schedules do not allow study abroad.
Demographics: Portland State University has seen a -23% enrollment drop
The demographic collapse starts to get noticed ... Washington's WSU has seen a similar drop.
Economy: Baby boomers already selling their homes
Boomers are already selling their homes.
Demographics: Oregon City schools faced with declining enrollment
More school cutbacks due to the declining fertility rate - and over building of schools, in some districts.
Education: Who studies abroad?
Data shows that humanities students more likely to come from wealthier families, far more likely to do study abroad programs.
Misleading media: “Almost half of recent college grads underemployed”
Unemployment among recent college graduates is actually at a lower rate than the long term average.
Nutrition: Study finds 22% lower heart disease risk for vegetarians-Or maybe not
Study finds vegetarian/vegan eating reduces heart disease risk by 22%. But nearly all the benefit is from having lower body weight.
Business: How Amazon lost its way by over hiring
From quietly shutting off Prime member's fast shipping, to AI-code generation fiascos, Amazon has been laying off workers after a period of massive over hiring.
Demographics
Economy
Gen Z/Generational issues
Geopolitics
International/Global/Immigration
Policy/Government
Economy: The end of free trade
Globalization went wild from the 1980s to 2020s. Now we've gone full protectionism. Older workers pay the costs of this flip, at both ends.