Contrary to popular belief, the new doesn’t replace the old. We are in limbo: a messy and protracted never-land where new ideas and old systems wrestle for oxygen. Here are seven cultural trends that will shape the next decade. (Bakhitari, Forbes)
Read MoreAt a glance, we see that happiness levels are relatively high across the Americas, in Europe and Oceania, and generally lowest across Africa and South Asia. In North America, Canada (6.9) came out on top, happier than the U.S. and Mexico (both 6.7). The least happy country in North America is the Dominican Republic (5.8) — perhaps unfairly, as its bad-to-worse neighbor Haiti wasn’t surveyed. (Jacobs, Big Think)
Read MoreThe survey of 2,000 American respondents, split evenly by generation, found that 46% of Gen Z respondents feel this duality, where their personality online vastly differs from how they present themselves in the real world. (Standard-Speaker)
Read MoreThe season had premiered in theaters in February 2024, and after the delay was announced, all eight episodes were released in theaters the week of Easter at a discounted price. “The Chosen” will release two new episodes a week on the app through the month of June, on Sundays and Thursdays. Season Four DVDs, Jenkins said, are also shipping out, allowing viewers to watch all eight episodes at once. (Post, Religion News Service)
Read MoreEmployers and researchers are just beginning to understand how workplace shifts over the past four years are contributing to what the U.S. surgeon general declared a loneliness health epidemic last year. The alienation affects remote and in-person workers alike. Among 1-800-Flowers.com’s 5,000 hybrid and fully on-site employees, for instance, the most popular community chat group offered by a company mental-health provider is simply called “Loneliness.” (Chen, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreIt might look as if the movie industry didn’t learn its lesson, but that’s not what’s going on. Movies take years to make under the best of circumstances, making it hard for studios to quickly pivot based on the lightning-in-a-bottle success of a few big hits. (Whelan and Fontana, The Wall Street Journal)
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