Stock in a weight loss company soared just over 79% on Tuesday on news that the company WeightWatchers had acquired Sequence, a weight-management medication platform.
The wild popularity of GLP-1 drugs for weight loss has created shortages for diabetes patients who depend on them — as well as huge margins for Big Pharma. That in turn created an existential crisis for lifestyle brands like Weight Watchers, for whom drugs were not the answer. But admitting that science is winning is the best thing for WW stock since Oprah herself bought 10% of the company in 2015.
Drugs are a lot better than self-control.
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An article argues that from film to fashion and architecture to advertising, creative fields have become dominated and defined by convention and cliché. Distinctiveness has died. In every field we look at, we find that everything looks the same.
Welcome to the age of average.
Here is a photo of some (supposedly different) current cars:
Studies are finding implicit bias training has no effect on its intended targets, and might even make matters worse.
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An article argues that from film to fashion and architecture to advertising, creative fields have become dominated and defined by convention and cliché. Distinctiveness has died. In every field we look at, we find that everything looks the same.
Welcome to the age of average.
Here is a photo of some (supposedly different) current cars:
I would have argued the opposite, that this is the age of the outlier. (Cars aside.)
***Studies are finding implicit bias training has no effect on its intended targets, and might even make matters worse.
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Nine Months of Labor, the Birth of a Mouse
Indictment notifies the defendant of his charge and protects him from future double jeopardy risk. But sometimes specifics can be so confining; great minds must rise above them.
The Trump indictment is incomplete, indistinct, and incoherent. Bragg's complaint is that Trump's acts in 2017 were efforts to undermine the election of 2016. So Trump must defend himself from an unnamed crime he committed using time travel.
This is a terrible disappointment for those people who are convinced Trump is an evil man and believed Bragg was going to tell them why.
Other cheap shots will be better delivered. Everybody has vulnerabilities. Nor is every political wave-surfer a moron. But it is a revelation; democracy demands self-control by citizens and leaders. Partisanship, especially placed before the betterment of the country, is easy. And this is the age of the well-poisoner.
The republic may survive this because the entire event is so weird and insincere. And Bragg might become eponymous with stupid and malicious. But incompetent, mendacious politicians cannot be relied upon always to err. And this will prove to be the first step in the degradation of a nation whose strength was its vision of progressive improvement managed by leaders of optimism and self-restraint.
The republic may survive this because the entire event is so weird and insincere. And Bragg might become eponymous with stupid and malicious. But incompetent, mendacious politicians cannot be relied upon always to err. And this will prove to be the first step in the degradation of a nation whose strength was its vision of progressive improvement managed by leaders of optimism and self-restraint.
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