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The Number That Won’t Move: 273 Million Children Are Still Out of School
UNESCO's newest count marks a seventh straight year of increase, even as global school enrollment reaches historic highs. The gap…
The Reefs Worth Betting On
A new global map shows precisely which coral reefs are likely to survive the climate crisis, and the unglamorous, community-level…
The Supply Chain Nobody Maps Until It Breaks
Most procurement teams can produce a tidy org chart of their direct suppliers within a day. Ask the same team…
Founders Should Worry Less About Their Pitch and More About Their First Ten Customers
The obsession with fundraising narrative often crowds out the harder, more useful work — the unglamorous job of getting ten…
Life Returns: Tracking a Decade of Wetland Recovery
The Great Egret standing in a Florida Bay slough is, whether the photograph says so or not, standing inside the…
The Forgotten Engineers Who Mapped the World’s Oceans by Sound
Long before satellites, a small community of acoustic engineers built the first real picture of the ocean floor — and…
What the Research Actually Says About Homework
Ask a parent whether homework helps and you’ll get a confident answer either way. The honest research answer is less…
How Aging Populations Are Quietly Redesigning the Modern City
ONE IDEA Cities are not being redesigned for aging populations through a single visible master plan. They’re being redesigned through…
The Leaders Who Ask Better Questions Instead of Giving Faster Answers
The best executives we’ve studied share one habit that has nothing to do with decisiveness — they’ve learned to be…
Earnings, Explained
Four times a year, thousands of public companies open their books, and for a few hours the numbers seem to…
What Family-Run Companies Understand About Risk That Public Companies Often Don’t
Every recession produces the same headline twice: a wave of household-name public companies cutting jobs and slashing dividends, and a…
The Numbers Behind the Global Shift to Distributed Computing
Processing power is moving away from centralized data centers faster than most forecasts predicted — but the numbers show two…
Inside the Quiet Redesign of How Cities Manage Their Water
Sensor networks and old infrastructure are an unlikely but increasingly common pairing, and the results are already reshaping how utilities…
A Conversation on What Makes Public Health Advice Actually Change Behavior
Ask ten public health communicators what makes a campaign work, and most will start with the same word: trust. The…
The Hidden Cost of Health Systems That Wait for People to Get Sick
A children’s vaccine costs a health system a few dollars today and might prevent a hospitalization a decade from now…