Wednesday, August 12, 2026
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Pearl Health Raises $50M to Help Providers Succeed in Value-Based Medicare Care – AlleyWatch
Medicare covers more than 70 million Americans and now consumes over $1 trillion in annual spending – yet the system...
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Psychology says people who keep a paper calendar beside their phone aren’t resisting technology—they trust the version of time they can see all at once more than the version that disappears behind a screen
There is a particular kind of desk that looks as if it belongs to two eras at once. A smartphone...
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How to Build a Scalable Go-to-Market Engine for Growth in 2026
Most tech companies do not have a strategy problem. They have a system problem. Reps dial, budget climbs, and pipeline...
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Most people assume Dubai became rich from oil, but oil now accounts for less than 1% of the emirate’s GDP — down from 50% in the 1980s — with tourism, trade, and aviation doing the work instead
Dubai is routinely treated as an oil city because it is wealthy, Gulf-based and visually associated with the wider United...
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Sperm whales dive to depths of nearly 2,250 metres on a single breath, their heads packed with a waxy oil called spermaceti that solidifies under cold pressure and helps them sink like a stone toward prey they hunt in total darkness
A sperm whale can hold its breath for over an hour and drop nearly 2,250 metres below the surface —...
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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 7/13/26 – AlleyWatch
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of...
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We tend to think detachment means becoming cold or disengaged, but occupational psychology uses the word differently: research finds that mentally switching off from work during your free time is associated with less exhaustion, fewer sleep problems and greater life satisfaction
Detachment has a chilly reputation. In ordinary conversation, it can sound like emotional distance, cynicism or a slow retreat from...
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We’re taught that failure is the price of ambition, but psychologists studying explanatory style found that what happens after a setback depends partly on the story a person tells themselves about it: those who see failure as permanent and personal are more likely to become helpless, while those who treat it as temporary and specific are more likely to keep going.
Ambition has a standard story about failure. You take the hit, learn the lesson, and keep moving. It is clean,...
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The American dream can be put in a number, and that number has halved: 9 in 10 children born in 1940 grew up to out-earn their parents; for those born in the 1980s it is now about 1 in 2 — barely a coin toss
About 90 percent of American children born in 1940 grew up to earn more than their parents did at the...
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The Sahel is home to roughly 300 million people on the Sahara’s southern edge — a strip of thin soil and scarce rain where a single failed harvest becomes a crisis with no safety net
The Sahel runs across Africa like a bruise between the Sahara and the savanna, a semi-arid belt stretching from Senegal...
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