Yes: “Will mortgage rates ever fall to 3% again?”
3% mortgage rates were a very unusual market in recent years. For much of the past 40+ years, interest rates were 7% or greater.
Demographics: Gen Z doesn’t want kids ’cause everything is awful
Everything is awful, say the doomers. Doomerism takes hold and no one wants to have families, to work, or make the world a better place. A self fulfilling game.
Demographics: The declining youth worker population
The young worker population peaked in 2000.
Social: Instagram is now 75% video content, 25% still photos
Still photography is almost gone on Instagram. If we shoot still photos, where do we go to for sharing?
Climate: Government was tracking heat losses from buildings
Using a satellite thermal imaging system, governments were hoping to track heat losses from buildings – and planned to contact building owners about fixing that. However, the imaging satellite has…
Crypto: Solving the riddle of hidden, coded messages found in a 19th century dress
Mysterious messages written on paper hidden inside a 19th century dress were eventually decrypted. And you won't believe what they were (click bait)!
Environment: Using nets to capture debris in drainage systems
Using nets to catch water borne trash - great idea!
Public health: We should be doing routine self tests for numerous diseases, every day
In a post-COVID world, there’s a new landscape for at-home medical tests (medicalxpress.com)
Smartphones: Google to end cloud storage of location data
Google to end cloud storage of phone location data and store it only on the phone device itself. Thus, no longer accessible to police dragnets.
Climate: Stop breathing to reduce climate change
People who breathe in the UK, "contribute to 0.1% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions". We must stop breathing.