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Dear Reader, I am nervous. I am to meet with a storyteller and I have volunteered my house. It is jittery because as anyone who tells stories will testify - physical space, time and the energy of the listeners matter. It is early morning. The Mumbai monsoons have taken a break, and the listeners troop in, laughing and chattering. They come from different corners of the city - Sion, Wadala, Malad, Malabar Hill and Mid-town, they’ve brought food and drink and copies of the storyteller's book. We share an alma mater, many…

Blake Lively is a woman of many talents. Not only can she impress audiences with her incredible acting ability, but she bakes in a rather unique fashion. Her recent hand at baking came from making a custom cat pancake that will leave you both impressed and horrified at the same time.The 35-year-old actress wakes up in her Bedford, New York house with husband Ryan Reynolds and their three daughters- James, Inez, and Betty. This supermom showed off her impressive cooking skills in an Instagram story flipping a very large…

Bambi Okugawa is a data center technician in one of Google’s data centers in a U.S. state with one of the strictest abortion bans in the nation: Tennessee. The state will ban abortions as early as six weeks, with no exceptions for rape or incest, on Aug. 25 due to a “trigger law."If needed, Okugawa, could get an out-of-state abortion and could even request a permanent transfer to a different company office due to the health benefits she gets as a full-time Google employee. However, her colleagues — many of whom are…

The Indian government should provide a level playing field for alternative fuels like auto-liquified petroleum gas (LPG) for carbon-free mobility, the Indian Auto LPG Coalition said. “In principle, we whole-heartedly welcome the government’s initiatives on promoting EVs (electric vehicles). What we have been merely asking is that the government should also extend equal opportunity to another hugely feasible alternative fuel which could also contribute to an emission-free mobility system in our country,” the association’s…

Equal Ventures, a venture firm that debuted in 2020 with a $56 million first fund, has raised a pair of new investment vehicles, SEC filings show. The New York City-based firm has closed a $94.8 million second fund and its first opportunity fund, worth $75 million. The investment firm is led by two investors, Richard Kerby and Rick Zullo, equal partners in the firm. Kerby declined to comment about the funds over email. Equal Ventures looks to be the first institutional investor in a startup, a level of conviction…

Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie are receiving equal pay for the new and highly anticipated Barbie film, it has emerged.The romantic comedy based on the famous doll is directed by Greta Gerwig and stars Gosling as Ken, Barbie’s boyfriend.In an extensive new report, Variety revealed the salaries that famous actors such as Gosling and Robbie commanded for various TV and movie roles. The article revealed that Gosling and Robbie took an equal payout of $12.5m (£10.5m) for their parts in Barbie.The film is being produced by…

“A rising tide lifts all boats,” as the phrase goes. But perhaps more importantly, it also hides any jagged rocks.Over the last few years, many of those sharp rocks in the startup ecosystem have been covered by the rising tide of mammoth investment sums and grossly inflated valuations. With the understandable desire of startups  to attract larger rounds of financing and with investors all too willing to open their checkbooks, many companies secured significant capital without much due diligence into its source. The…

Democracy, a concept derived and named by the earliest Greek philosophers, is, to date, the most widely accepted system for achieving as close to this goal as possible. Democracy is far from perfect, and is inherently troubled by the issues it aims to solve in the first place. Most democracies we know today are actually more akin to systems of representative government. In the internet, and to be a Bitcoin bore, blockchain technology, we have the capabilities for true, trustless transactions from any place on Earth.…

The Pandemic — a Trailer for the WFH ExperienceMaking working from home productive takes a lot of self-enforced discipline. There are always so many distractions and little things that require attention at home, and with nobody really watching, it is so easy to slip into home mode and lose focus from work. For women in particular, the whole process of getting ready and commuting to work and back helps them switch from one mode to the other. The absence of that compartmentalization can be a struggle. So getting into work…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research highlights the major impact of motherhood earning penalties on the economic prospects of single-mother families. Typically, research…