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Has private credit’s golden age already ended?
The Economist· 8 hours agoThe HISTORY of leveraged finance—the business of lending to risky, indebted companies—is best told in three acts. In the second act, the extraordinary growth of private equity ...
The ‘Black American Music’ of harpist Cassie Watson Francillon
WGNO via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoNew Orleans' "Visionary Harpist," Cassie Watson Francillon, believes we all have the innate power to...
Discovery of 4,000-Year-Old Structure in Greece Stumps Archaeologists and Threatens Major Airport...
Smithsonian Magazine· 22 hours agoArchaeologists on the Greek island of Crete have uncovered a monumental ancient structure that...
Adapt or die: Is the future bright for business amidst the AI boom?
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoOn the surface, AI might seem new, but history and mythology tell a different story. As a concept,...
When painting and sculpture were Olympic events
BBC News· 1 day agoThe goal of these "other" summer games is to promote broad aspects of Gallic culture, but also to revive the little-known Olympic tradition of including...
The best poetry books of 2024 so far
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThere’s a squib by James Fenton that runs “Jeremy Prynne, Jeremy Prynne, isn’t your oeuvre rather thynne?” It was already a hostage to fortune in 2001,...
‘Arcane’ Animation Studio Fortiche Production Preps Sci-Fi Feature ‘Penelope of Sparta,’ Inspired by...
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 days ago“Arcane” producer Fortiche Production revealed its next project at the Annecy Animation Festival...
How do we feel when leaders cry?
BBC via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"There’s been a kind of pendulum swing, so in some periods like Ancient Greece and Rome or in the English Middle Ages men were very open with their...
Summer of Dupes: Alternatives in the Aegean
New York Times· 6 days agoIn April, Princess Cruises told passengers that it was canceling a scheduled stop in Santorini, Greece, citing congestion. In the Aegean Sea, more than...
Ancient Celtic Elites Inherited Wealth From Their Mothers' Sides
Smithsonian Magazine· 3 days agoIn the Iron Age, many Celtic elites were buried in luxurious graves filled with ceremonial wagons, jewelry, furniture and dining wares. Such burials have made historians wonder: How did these ...
