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When a group of Etsy sellers announced in March that they would temporarily shut down their shops to protest changes on the platform, organizers made a promise: the strike was just the first step. Now, following the week-long strike and small concessions by Etsy, organizers have formed the Indie Sellers Guild, a nonprofit they hope will function as an advocacy organization for anyone who sells handmade, vintage, and craft goods online. “We are modeling ourselves after a union as much as possible, with the same goals…

While the first couple of quarters of 2022 were brutal for most altcoins, Binance Coin (BNB) and Optimism (OP) faired better than most. Binance, as you probably know is a stalwart and battle-hardened crypto exchange. It has the highest volume of any centralized exchange. It’s been around for a while. Optimism is an up-and-coming layer-2 blockchain. While both of these assets are expected to produce nice returns in the coming years, there are no guarantees and the risks are still high for those that go all in on one…

Major steel companies this week turned in quarterly results that were mostly better than expected, after steel prices rose sharply in spring because of the war in Ukraine. While prices have retreated in recent weeks, steel executives said demand isn’t deteriorating. “Right now, in our order book, we don’t see it,” said Mark Millett, chief executive of Steel Dynamics Inc. STLD -5.84% Steel Dynamics and…

Let’s face it, the crypto world has made great leaps forward in the last few years, gaining mainstream attention along the way. While these movements have been remarkable and show the true future of crypto, it isn’t always all about BTC (the only coin to really get into the mainstream news regularly). People who aren’t as informed about crypto often think that’s the only currency there is. But we know that’s not the case. And the real future for crypto as it looks to take even further…

The Meow Wolf Workers Collective said Tuesday it has formed a union for employees of the immersive art-and-entertainment giant’s Denver location, Convergence Station. The announcement follows recent wage-and-benefit wins touted by the original, 170-member Meow Wolf workers’ union in Santa Fe, New Mexico, home to the company’s first installation, the House of Eternal Return. Denver’s Convergence Station opened in September 2021 and counts about 230 hourly staff members. Convergence Station Workers will join MWWC!…

A compelling new study from researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science suggests we tend to make friends with people who smell the same as us. Across a series of experiments the researchers found volunteers interacted more positively with strangers who shared similar body odor qualities.The animal kingdom is filled with examples of scent-based behavior. These chemical communication cues are as ancient as they come but it is only recently that researchers have started to uncover the ways smell influences human…

As several Apple stores across the country fight to unionize, workers in Towson, Maryland became the first to win formal recognition. Out of 110 eligible employees, the union received 65 yes votes and 33 no votes. This historic victory comes after concentrated efforts from Apple to discourage its retail workers from unionizing. Last month, the trillion-dollar company’s vice president of people and retail Deirdre O’Brien sent a video to 58,000 retail staff warning them about the perceived drawbacks of unionizing.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Queensland residents are facing yet another arduous clean-up after floods inundated roads and towns last week. In the current La Niña period, from…

In its more than 30 years of service, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made over 1.3 million observations of intriguing cosmic events and bodies. It once captured a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147, using its prime working camera – the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). The “Hubble Classic” image has been again shared on Instagram. The image shows the two galaxies oriented in a way that they appear to form the number 10 in the vast dark sky. While the object on the left, or the “1”, appears…