Jan. 15—Kids learned about solar balloons and static electricity, took home bottle tornadoes and got sprayed in a lake effect snow demonstration during Lake Metroparks’ Jan. 15 Weather Day. Weather Day was hosted at Jordan Creek Park’s Environmental Learning Center in Concord Township. Outdoor Education Manager Heather Freeman said that the goal was “getting families […]
Blazers and slacks outshone chipmakers in 2023 despite the furore around AI—and the CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch says targeting young millennials was the golden ticket. Ohio-based Abercrombie & Fitch exploded onto the market in the 1990s with its all-American college sports aesthetic. But with a boom in online retail and with fast fashion flooding […]
If economists are right about 2024, inflation will continue to fall and we won’t even be talking about it by the end of the year. But the last three years have taught some valuable lessons about inflation that some of us never knew—and many others forgot, given that that last bout of serious price hikes […]
For almost two years now I’ve been reporting in Ukraine, covering Russia’s full-scale invasion and its efforts to seize more Ukrainian territory. I often thought about what was happening to Russia’s other war — the war that people were paying far less attention to, the one that it was fighting in support of Assad, a […]
As economists and pundits continue to debate why Americans aren’t feeling better about the economy despite healthy growth and falling rates of inflation, the inflation outlook itself continues to improve. Last week, the Commerce Department reported that, according to a measure that the Federal Reserve watches closely—the Personal Consumption Expenditure (P.C.E.) deflater—consumer prices rose by […]
On the big day, I departed the airlock with my partner, Mike Good, “Bueno.” The thought in my mind was that I wanted a perfect day. Have you ever had a perfect day at work? No problems, no issues, just clear sailing? I wanted one of those, and the day of spacewalking started out very […]