Mayor closes Overasselt home hit in apparent gang shooting; Guard killed, two cops shot
The house in Overasselt that was attacked by dozens of armed men on Tuesday has been closed for a year by the mayor’s orders.
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Research suggests we file the strangers we deal with under the job independently of the person — in a Yale reading experiment, readers took about 213 milliseconds longer over the closing words when one customer replaced another than when one postal worker did
“I need this truck moved, you’re making me late for work.” Three hundred American adults read that line on Prolific, one chunk at a time,
The archetypal high-growth founder isn’t a 20-year-old prodigy in a garage. A US Census study of 2.7 million founders found that those behind the fastest-growing 0.1% of new ventures were 45 on average—and a 50-year-old was roughly 1.8 times as likely as a 30-year-old to produce an exceptional-growth company.
When people picture a high-growth founder, they often picture someone barely old enough to rent the garage. The familiar character is brilliant, restless and unburdened
A 2014 analysis by time-tracking app DeskTime found that its top-rated 10% of computer users typically worked in 52-minute stretches followed by 17 minutes away from tracked work—nearly one-quarter of each cycle. It suggests productive workers take substantial breaks, although the observational app data cannot prove that the breaks caused their productivity.
Fifty-two minutes of work followed by 17 minutes away from the screen has the irresistible shape of a productivity formula. The numbers are specific, memorable
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Norway seizes Russian vessel to enforce Ukrainian Naftogaz arbitration claim
Norwegian authorities seized a Russian vessel in Svalbard on Wednesday at Ukraine’s request, part of efforts to enforce a $4.22 billion arbitration award. This award
German right-wing extremist AfD targets iconic Bauhaus school in Saxony-Anhalt
Nearly a century after the Nazis shut down the Bauhaus school of design, it has become a cultural battleground between Germany’s establishment and the right-wing
Spain’s Sánchez answers lawmakers about Ceuta border crisis
A day after tens of thousands of Spaniards protested the government’s handling of the Ceuta border crisis, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez struggled to answer lawmakers’
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Dutch government rules out using EU funding to pay for abortions
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