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Warren’s pregnancy discrimination claim On the campaign trail, Warren has repeatedly referenced a setback early in her career, when she claims to have been fired from her first teaching job because she was pregnant. Warren was six-months pregnant when the principal at her school said the job she had secured for the following year was going to someone else. In early October, right-leaning media outlets challenged Warren’s claims, citing her description of the experience in a 2007 interview and the contents of a transcript from a 1971 school board meeting, which indicated her teaching contract was extended. … [Read more...] about 6 moments from the 2020 presidential race that mirror what women face at work

An international team of 14 scientists published these ocean temperature findings in a new study, which was published this week in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. These researchers looked at data from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration dating back to the 1950s to analyze ocean temperatures between the surface and 2,000 meters deep. The past 10 years have been the warmest on record for global ocean temperatures, they concluded, and the hottest five years ever recorded have all occurred in the past five years. … [Read more...] about The ocean is as hot as if we’d dropped 3.6 billion atomic bombs into it

In a recent paper about coastal water temperatures, Baumann and Owen Doherty, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, show how climate change is having different impacts depending on where you live. In some areas (e.g. the South American Pacific coasts) the water has been getting colder over the last 30 years. In others (e.g. the North Pacific and North Atlantic) it’s getting warmer. On the East Coast, the temperature is rising at three times the global average–meaning that global numbers aren’t particularly relevant to New Yorkers or New Englanders. … [Read more...] about Not All Climate Change Is Equal: Some Oceans Are Already Warmer

And indeed, when Microsoft Japan experimented with a four-day workweek over the summer, productivity actually increased by 40%. Part of these gains was made by reducing the standard meeting duration from 60 to 30 minutes and capping attendance at five participants. Similar results were found when a New Zealand company implemented a similar trial, which increased productivity and work-life balance across the board. Sweden implemented a six-hour workday in 2015 and has enjoyed increased employee happiness and productivity ever since–even customers reported they were more satisfied. It’s why Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin is suggesting a flexible, four-day workweek and a six-hour workday. … [Read more...] about To get more done in four 6-hour workdays, do these three things

Indeed, the kind of sketch shows that reach the audience of web-addled comedy nerds who gravitate toward Ciarelli’s and Evans’s work tend to be fronted by their writer/performer creators (e.g. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson and Joe Pera Talks to You.) Although the explosion of streaming services over the last few years has provided more venues than ever for niche comedy—allowing shows like Hulu’s gloriously weird and heartfelt Pen15 to flourish—the pipeline to reach them remains as twisty as ever. The odds of a corporation investing heavily in a sketch show from two comedy writers who have yet to break through as performers are the kind you’d be loathe to take in Vegas. … [Read more...] about These two comedians are DESTROYING internet culture—and it’s hilarious