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OAKLAND —  It’s after noon on a recent Wednesday, and the kitchen and patio at ThredUp’s Oakland headquarters are packed.Employees are eating lunch and chatting around a long table in the kitchen. Smaller groups are clustered outside and enjoying a sunny spring day after weeks of rain.But by 1:40 p.m., the communal gathering areas are silent.People are quietly typing back at their desks, walking briskly to meetings or holed up in conference rooms on video calls. As Nickelback’s “Far Away” plays to a virtually empty…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Colorado mountain snowpack measured above normal in early March, a few weeks before the closely watched seasonal peak, except in the Arkansas River Basin, where lagging snow could lead to low water flows. The snowpack tracked by federal snow surveyors appeared relatively promising with the latest…

There’s Americana dream weaver Ralph Lauren, who guest-starred on “Friends.” The debonair don Giorgio Armani, who was the subject of a Martin Scorsese documentary. And the late, ever-recognizable Karl Lagerfeld, who cameoed in “Zoolander” and lent his crisp voice to “Grand Theft Auto” videogames.   But where these designers boosted their profiles from behind the sketchpad, Pharrell Williams, 49, who was last week appointed Louis Vuitton’s men’s creative director, enters the atelier as a…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Over the past year, the U.S. has intensely focused on returning to pre-pandemic "normal." As many embrace their prior lives, many voices are missing and being ignored in the national conversation. What about those who were permanently impacted by COVID-19? When COVID-19 first emerged, it was believed…

“Goblin mode” is another example of how the internet is modernizing our own lexicon. Image: DomCritelli (Shutterstock)Another year gone by, another chance to reflect on our society’s lexicon. While Merriam-Webster officially crowned “gaslight” as their word of the year, Oxford University Press, the publishers behind the Oxford English Dictionary, is paying homage to some edgier internet slang: goblin mode.“Goblin mode” is a “a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically…

Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver PostPortrait of attorney Norm Brownstein at his firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck in Denver on Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Norm Brownstein, founder and chairman of the law and lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, has been recognized by the National Law Journal with a lifetime achievement award. Brownstein was acknowledged for his work impacting national public policy for more than four decades, according to a news release. The National Law Journal described Brownstein as a “legendary…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Academics' work week became even longer during the pandemic. This is true of researchers from different countries, independently of their gender and specialization, an international research team with HSE University participation found. Their working time during the pandemic was 51 hours compared to the usual 40. The increased number of working hours per week seems to have become part of the new…

Gif: 20th Century StudiosAt a Glance:Avatar, written and directed by James Cameron, was released in 2009 and became the highest grossing film ever—which it still is to this day.It’s taken over a decade for the first sequel to be released, but it’s coming December 16. It’s called Avatar: The Way of Water.The Way of Water is the first of four additional sequels, the rest of which are scheduled to come out every two years: 2024, 2026, and 2028.The epic story will follow Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe…

Marine heatwaves drive recurrent mass mortalities in the Mediterranean Sea. Credit: Garrabou et al 2022 An international team of researchers led by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) has proven that, between 2015 and 2019, the Mediterranean experienced a series of marine heat waves that affected all regions of the basin, which resulted in recurrent mass mortality events throughout the period analyzed. The details are…

Customers confer with a salesperson as a 2022 Ridgeline pickup truck sits on the showroom floor of a Honda dealership, Friday, April 15, 2022, in Highlands Ranch, Colo. Credit: AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File Shopping for a new or used car over the last couple of years has become a more challenging endeavor. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic and its after-effects, we've had to deal with factory closures, supply chain issues, a…