In 1972, the U.S. total fertility rate dropped below 2.1 children per woman, the level at which a population holds steady through births and deaths alone. It has stayed below that mark every year since. Colcom Foundation treats that milestone as a turning point in its understanding of American population trends. Voluntary Choices, Lasting Results […]
Market data tells part of the story of European gaming. The rest comes from the people running the businesses, whose commentary reveals how they think about technology, partnerships and the pace of change. Social media has become one of the most accessible windows. The X account of Burak Basel reflects the kind of executive presence […]
Anyone researching facial surgery will encounter two broad families of facelift. One tightens the skin. The other rebuilds the structure underneath. Dr. Andrew Jacono, a New York facial plastic surgeon, has spent about two decades refining the second. The Conventional Method A traditional facelift separates the skin from the SMAS, the superficial musculoaponeurotic system. The […]
Pest problems rarely announce themselves with a dramatic event. More often, they arrive as a series of small clues that are easy to dismiss: a faint scratching in the wall at night, a few tiny droppings behind the toaster, a line of ants that returns the morning after being wiped away. Reading those clues correctly […]
Look through Gulf Coast Western reviews and one name comes up again and again: Matthew Fleeger, the company’s CEO, president, and director since 2009. His path to the corner office was not a straight line. Fleeger began his oil and gas career in the mid 1980s after graduating from Southern Methodist University with a business […]
Colcom Foundation leans on several major international assessments to explain why it funds conservation work. Taken together, the numbers describe a planet under heavy strain. The 2019 IPBES Global Assessment, produced by an intergovernmental science body, found that about 1 million plant and animal species face extinction, more than at any earlier point in human […]
Most people who create something seen by millions eventually become public figures themselves, but Jean Chalopin has taken a different path. A recent feature in BBN Times explores how a single French proverb has shaped the way he thinks about fame, privacy, and his own story. The saying comes from the fabulist Jean-Pierre Claris de […]
“A season like this one rewards reps who did their homework,” said Garth Massey, co-founder and president of sales at Grit Marketing, describing the company’s approach to this year’s unusually active tick season. “The data is public. The difference is whether you can explain it clearly enough that someone trusts you to fix the problem.” […]
Most companies chasing growth in podcasting add more shows, more staff, and more output. Greg Soros did the opposite. After leaving a senior producer role at a major media company in 2020, he built Podcraft Media Lab around a single idea: fewer projects, done better, beat a crowded slate of average ones. Five years later, […]
Before he became a voice in the debate over artificial intelligence and government reform, Justin Fulcher spent years inside the Pentagon trying to fix how the department bought technology. That experience, serving as a Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense focused on acquisition reform, now informs much of what he says publicly about where […]