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☆ A full-time eBay reseller who spent no money upfront explains how to start on a budget — and 2 worthwhile purchases for any reseller
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Kendall VanGilder turned her eBay side hustle into a full-time business in 2024. She's made several strategic purchases that have helped her grow her business, including LED lights. Kendall VanGilder, who started listing apparel on eBay in 2022, turned the side hustle into a full-time business in 2024. As for inventory, "you can go into your closet or other places throughout your house and list things, and as long as you're making money on what you're listing, then you can take that money and reinvest it." Worthwhile purchases for a reseller: LED lights and a thermal printerVanGilder says two business-related purchases have been completely worth the money: LED lights and a thermal printer.

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☆ A 29-year-old thrifter who replaced her 9-to-5 income reselling clothes on eBay shares the strategies she uses to find profitable items
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Kendall VanGilder turned thrifting into a full-time reselling business in 2024. The hobby grew on her with time, and one particular trip to Goodwill "changed my viewpoint on thrifting," she recalled. The majority of her income comes from her eBay store, Style Secondhand. Sometimes it's not, but a lot of times the combination of those things I look for make it a really good item." Advertisement"Those are out there and waiting to be found at a thrift store or a buy-sell-trade store," she said.

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☆ Steve Jobs describes tech similar to AI chatbots in newly released clip from 1983—plus 2 more times his predictions came true
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Cheyenne Devon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

From the Macintosh computer to the iPhone, Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs was widely considered an innovative visionary who helped revolutionize the way we use technology in our everyday lives. Now, a newly released clip from 1983 reveals Jobs may have been more ahead of his time than we knew. The Steve Jobs Archive's latest digital exhibit features never before seen video footage of a presentation given by the tech legend at the 1983 International Design Conference. In the clip, Jobs said that while he enjoyed reading books by Aristotle and Plato, he wished he could ask them questions. The machine would be able to generate responses to questions similar to how the real-life person may respond.

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☆ Do We Need Language to Think?
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Carl Zimmer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For thousands of years, philosophers have argued about the purpose of language. Starting in the 1960s, Noam Chomsky, a linguist at M.I.T., argued that we use language for reasoning and other forms of thought. “If there is a severe deficit of language, there will be severe deficit of thought,” he wrote. Dr. Fedorenko went on to become a cognitive neuroscientist at M.I.T., using brain scanning to investigate how the brain produces language. And after 15 years, her research has led her to a startling conclusion: We don’t need language to think.

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☆ Your back and neck pain might have nothing to do with your bad posture, a posture historian says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Ellyn Lapointe | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Experts previously told Business Insider that bad posture can cause neck and back pain, wear and tear on joints and discs, decreased flexibility, and other health issues. A lack of evidenceDespite a lack of solid evidence, many believe that bad posture inevitably causes back pain. Justin Paget/Getty ImagesDespite the general assumption that bad posture leads to a bad back, there's limited science to back that up. Advertisement"There have been a few studies that indicate that there isn't solid scientific evidence to show that a person who slouches more is more likely to have back pain," Linker told BI. While it's easy to blame bad posture for back pain and other spinal health issues, Linker said that it's actually more complicated.

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☆ New mission could reveal secrets of the moon’s ‘hidden side’
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

In one lunar region, Japan’s “Moon Sniper” mission has beaten the odds and survived three long, frigid lunar nights since its sideways landing on January 19. The Tianwen-2 mission will visit the space rock later this decade. But first, China has set its sights on returning to the moon’s “hidden side.”An illustration depicts the far side of the moon, with Earth behind it. Since the Chang’e 4 mission in 2019, China remains the only country to have landed on the moon’s far side, sometimes called the “dark side” of the moon. Scientists hope that returning samples from the far side could solve some of the biggest remaining lunar mysteries, including the moon’s true origin.

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☆ Ancient text reveals details of Plato’s burial place and final evening, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Barbie Latza Nadeau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

It was previously only known that he was buried in the academy, but not specifically where, Ranocchia told CNN Tuesday. A statue of ancient Greek philosopher Plato in Athens, Greece. Brigida Soriano/AlamyThe text also provides more detail about Plato’s final night – and he wasn’t a fan of the music that was played. The project, called the Greek Schools project, is a five-year study using various technologies and methods to help decipher the fragile papyri. “The new readings often draw on new and concrete facts about Plato’s Academy, Hellenistic literature, Philodemus of Gadara and ancient history in general.”

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☆ Astronomers spot a ‘super-Earth’ 137 light-years away
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Astronomers have discovered a “super-Earth,” or a world larger than our planet, orbiting a star about 137 light-years away. The super-Earth exoplanet, known as TOI-715b, orbits a red dwarf star that is cooler and smaller than our sun. “This discovery is exciting as it’s the first super-Earth from TESS to be found within the conservative habitable zone,” Dransfield said. If the Earth-size planet is confirmed, it will become the smallest planet yet that TESS has found in a habitable zone. TOI-715b’s star has only shown a couple of flares within the past two years and isn’t considered active, making it an old star, Dransfield said.

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☆ Kiss Loves to Say Goodbye. Is Its Rock ’n’ Roll Really Over?
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Rob Tannenbaum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

But Sinatra returned two years later, to much ballyhoo and chart success, with the album “Ol’ Blue Eyes is Back.” Bowie was paying attention. “David was a big Sinatra fan,” his former manager, Tony DeFries, recently told Mojo magazine. Bowie’s retirement was a ruse, DeFries added, to generate publicity and whip up demand for a headlining tour of big venues in the United States. It worked; in 1974, Bowie played arenas across the country, including two shows at Madison Square Garden. After Bowie retired in 1973, then unretired in 1974, he retired a second time in 1975.

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☆ Where Can You Go to Grad School Without Going to Grad School?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Cat Zhang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On an evening in October, Mr. Begue joined 17 other students around a long wooden table at BISR’s white-brick office space in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Dumbo. The group read texts like “Woodcutters” and “Heldenplatz,” while snacking on corn chips and sipping boxed wine. “At our core is the conviction that the idea that people are anti-intellectual is false,” Ajay Singh Chaudhary, the institute’s executive director, said. Mr. Chaudhary, then a graduate student at Columbia University, had dreamed of an alternative to traditional academia while preparing to teach Columbia’s Core curriculum. I always wish I got a chance to study, you know, Aristotle or Plato,’” Mr. Chaudhary said.

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☆ What is hazing and how is it affecting student athletes in the US?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Athletic programs at Boston College, New Mexico State University and Northwestern University are just three US institutions that have been dealing with hazing allegations in 2023. That was the highest incidence of hazing among a student group or team, ahead of fraternities and sororities, in which 38.3% of respondents reported having experienced hazing. Recent examplesThere has been considerable fallout following allegations of hazing among college sports teams this year. The following week, attorneys representing at least 15 former Northwestern University student athletes announced plans to sue the university over allegations that its athletics department fostered a “toxic culture” which facilitated harassment and sexual abuse. Former Northwestern University football player Ramon Diaz is suing the school over hazing and racism allegations.

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☆ Procrastination isn't about time management, it's an emotional issue. Here are 4 ways to overcome it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Jonathan Small | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Ludwig says it is due to a lack of intrinsic motivation, willpower, and fear of failure. "Procrastination is not a time management issue. It's an emotional management issue," says Petr Ludwig, author of The End of Procrastination: How to Stop Postponing and Lead a Fulfilled Life. The result is escaping from the stress and effort of a particular task by doing something you know you shouldn't do. "Self-forgiveness" is a helpful strategy in fighting procrastination, says Ludwig.

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☆ Rize: Turkey’s hidden mountain hideaways
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Feride Yalav-Heckeroth | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Rize province, on the Black Sea coast near Turkey’s northeast border with Georgia, is still largely unknown to many international travelers. Away from Rize itself – the seaside city which lends its name to the province – the area’s valleys and plateaus, surrounded by high-altitude mountain ridges, have remained largely rural. With high rates of rainfall, Rize’s mountain villages (yayla) become a point of escape from summer temperatures. “The state of tourism in Rize is not very pleasant because visitors often arrive without much knowledge about the local culture or the nature. “I think the purpose of coming to Rize shouldn’t be to rush through everything and take a few selfies.

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☆ John Roberts, Republican Statesman - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The unusual powers of the American Supreme Court have unusual effects on all its members, but especially on whichever justices hold the balance of power: Their role fits especially uneasily with the letter of the Constitution and modern democratic norms, evoking more ancient forms or concepts — the Roman censor, the Greek archon, Plato’s philosopher-king. Three figures have occupied and sometimes shared this role over the last two generations, and each has brought a different mind-set to the work. Sandra Day O’Connor, drawing on her background as an elected official, often seemed to regard herself a canny intuiter of the American middle ground, constantly seeking political balances and settlements. Then Anthony Kennedy, who shared the role with O’Connor and stood alone after her retirement, seemed to favor the philosopher-king model, issuing sweeping judgments based on his distinctive libertarianism, often written in the style of a papal bull.

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☆ Not Just Math Quizzes: Khan Academy’s Tutoring Bot Offers Playful Features
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Natasha Singer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Not Just Math Quizzes: Khan Academy’s Tutoring Bot Offers Playful FeaturesThe new, A.I.-assisted Khanmigo allows students to chat with simulated historical figures or co-write stories with the software. Khan Academy, the popular online learning nonprofit, recently developed an experimental A.I.-assisted tutoring bot for schools called Khanmigo. Students can use it to take math quizzes, practice vocabulary words or prepare for Advanced Placement tests in subjects like statistics and art history. The tutoring bot also offers more playful, free-form features. We Chat With ‘Benjamin Franklin’The Khanmigo tutoring bot has a feature that lets students chat with simulated historical figures.

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☆ The mother-daughter duo behind the thrift store Buffalo Exchange explains how they built a $103 million company from used clothes
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Kerstin and Spencer Block founded the resale chain Buffalo Exchange in 1974. Back then, secondhand clothing carried a stigma as a lower-class necessity, said Kerstin Block, the president and co-owner of Buffalo Exchange. The industry is expected to double in size, reaching $350 billion by 2027, and Buffalo Exchange is at the forefront of resale's emerging appeal. Popularizing the 'buy, sell, trade' modelKerstin (left) and Spencer Block in their first resale store in Tucson, Arizona. "It really is the fun part of the job — being in the store and helping customers," Rebecca said.

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☆ Opinion: What Oppenheimer’s reading list can teach us
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Jane Carr | Opinion Jane Greenway Carr | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

Oppenheimer’s list of books included works by Plato, mathematician Bernhard Riemann and scientist Michael Faraday, and the “Bhagavad-Gita,” with which he has famously long been associated. What happens when the inner workings and potential reach of scientific inventions are unknown, even to the human beings who create them? Still, Pride is also a time to revel in culture’s power to transform, sustain and bring joy to LGBTQ communities. But Medvedev knows that above all else he needs Putin to think of him as unequivocally loyal and useful. What it will do is help 40 million borrowers who, like me, were drowning in debt and need immediate relief.

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☆ ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Destructive Secrets
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Esther Zuckerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Indeed, Lottie’s methodology is proven right over the course of the fifth episode of “Yellowjackets,” where destructive secrets are wantonly shared. Teen Misty is feeling especially loose lipped thanks to her friendship with her “bestie” Crystal. And, of course, the one we already know: She destroyed the plane’s emergency transmitter the night after the crash so she could remain the Yellowjackets’ hero in crisis. Rather than celebrate their shared oddity when Misty utters the story about the transmitter, Crystal’s expression drops. Misty, facing social isolation once more, resorts to a threat, vowing to kill Crystal if she tells anyone.

☆ Leaders like Elon Musk are calling for an AI pause. But experts say there's no secret to better, safer AI: Just add humans.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Emilia David | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Leaders like Elon Musk have called for a "pause" on AI development to better consider its effects on society. But industry insiders say that we already know the best way to make sure AI acts responsibly: Just add humans. The thing is that the secret to responsible AI is no secret at all. A lot of responsible AI deals with understanding the impact of AI in people's day-to-day lives. All of which is to say, a way to create responsible AI already exists.

☆ Converting empty office buildings into apartments sounds like a no-brainer, but big landlords are resisting for one big reason
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Three experts tell Insider office prices need to fall before conversions are commonplace. But for these plans to be successful, the world of real estate must address the elephant in the room: Office buildings are simply too expensive. Moody's laid out some basic math: In 2021, the average New York apartment building traded at $434 a square foot. Now in the US, he's up to the same business but not yet with the vacant office buildings that dot the downtowns of large metropolises. Among them is an older, 130,000-square-foot St. Louis office building, which represents some of the city's most outdated stock, Rubin told Insider.

Jan 30 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday shot down Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ.N) attempt to offload tens of thousands of lawsuits over its talc products into bankruptcy court. The appeals court ruling revives those lawsuits. Monday's decision by the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia dismissed the bankruptcy filed by the J&J subsidiary in 2021. The appeals court decision could force companies considering the strategy to more carefully consider its risks, two legal experts said. The Texas two-step has garnered criticism from Democratic lawmakers in Washington, and inspired proposed legislation that would severely restrict the practice.

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One technologist went as far as saying that with ChatGPT, "College as we know it will cease to exist." Artificial intelligence company OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding cheating concerns. In reality, AI tools like ChatGPT could actually be used to enhance education, according to Paul Fyfe, an associate professor of English at North Carolina State University. Computer-assisted writing tools, such as Grammarly or Google Doc’s Smart Compose, already exist — and have long been utilized by many students. For now, he suggested an older technology to combat fears of students using ChatGPT to cheat.

☆ I made $133,000 last year reselling on Poshmark. Here's how I started this side hustle that brings in more than my 9-to-5 and the common mistake I tell newbies to avoid.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Emily Courter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Ashley Peek started selling clothes on Poshmark when she was in college to clear out her closet. I started selling in college to clear out my closet. It didn't take long after I started reselling on Poshmark to realize I could pick up clothes at the thrift store and resell them online for a profit. I was sourcing items mostly from local consignment stores. In addition to the time spent sourcing items and shipping out sales, I'm a reselling-content creator.

☆ My husband and I made $200,000 in revenue last year on Poshmark. Here's how I went from working at Bath & Body Works to reselling full time.
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-13 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

I resell shoes on Poshmark full time under the closet name "RNZY," which is my husband, Ryan's, and my name combined. From 2013 to 2015, I worked as a Bath & Body Works store manager in Burlington, Vermont. We sold shoes and clothing, but we quickly niched down to exclusively shoes. We both realized that we enjoyed the entire process of selling shoes — sourcing, cleaning, photographing, listing, and shipping. (We search for the pair of shoes on Poshmark and select "sold items."

Johnson & Johnson has said it would provide a fair amount of money to the subsidiary to pay claims. Johnson & Johnson, valued at more than $450 billion, had about $31 billion in cash and marketable securities on hand at the end of the third quarter, securities filings show. One would absorb all the talc liability; the other would carry on the business free from the threat of billion-dollar judgments. Levesque replied that the “technical aspect” of the subsidiary bankruptcy wasn’t likely to cause concern about J&J’s creditworthiness. Is that what you're saying?” asked Jeffrey Jonas, a Brown Rudnick lawyer representing a creditors committee comprising talc plaintiffs.

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