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It’s Not Just About the Number on the Scale: The Hidden Value of So-Called “Yo-Yo Dieting”

By Tony Hicks
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For years, “yo-yo dieting” has been treated like the moral failure of modern health culture. The phrase itself drips with judgment. It conjures an image of someone helplessly bouncing up and down in weight, a victim of bad discipline, bad habits, or bad character. Media headlines frame it as a cautionary tale. Fitness influencers use it as the ultimate warning. Doctors sometimes mention it with a sigh. But what if the story we’ve been told is incomplete? What if the problem isn’t the people moving up and down in weight — but the way we’ve chosen to interpret that movement? Because beneath the shame, the memes, and the warnings lies a more complicated truth: fluctuation is normal. Human metabolism is adaptive. And the journey people call “yo-yo dieting” may actually represent something far more meaningful than failure. It may represent persistence. The Myth of the Straight Line Our culture loves linear stories. You set a goal. You work hard. You achieve it. End of narrative. W...
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How Beastro Is Cooking Up a Stew of Your Favorite Cozy and Card Games

By Tony Hicks
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There are two kinds of games in the modern era. The first kind wants you to save the world from a cosmic threat while juggling seventeen currencies, eight skill trees, and a morally complex dialogue system that somehow still makes you feel guilty about picking the sarcastic option. The second kind just wants you to make soup and feel okay about your life for twenty minutes. Beastro lives firmly in the second category — but it also sneaks into the first one through the back door wearing an apron and pretending it doesn’t know what “meta progression” means. On the surface, it’s cozy. It’s cute. It’s warm. It serves soft music and gentle colors like comfort food for your overclocked brain. But beneath all that steam rising off the digital stovetop is something else entirely: a careful, almost suspiciously competent fusion of cozy genre conventions and card-game systems, simmered together until they feel like one thing. And that’s where things get interesting. Because if you’ve played eno...
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One Big Beautiful Bill Act Drives U.S. Construction Boom and Manufacturing Growth

By Tony Hicks
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America builds again — and everyone suddenly remembers they love hard hats. There are moments in American politics when everyone pretends they suddenly agree on something. Infrastructure is one of those rare moments. Politicians who can’t agree on what day it is somehow unite around the idea that roads, factories, and cranes look fantastic on camera. Enter the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” — less a single legislative masterpiece and more a symbolic umbrella representing the era of mega-spending, massive incentives, and industrial revival now reshaping the American economy. Call it policy. Call it strategy. Call it economic adrenaline injected straight into the veins of construction firms and manufacturing executives. Whatever the label, the result looks unmistakable: concrete pouring at record rates, semiconductor plants rising from farmland, industrial parks filling up faster than anyone predicted, and a whole lot of people rediscovering what steel smells like at six in t...
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⚡ “Every Computer Job Will Change” — The New AI Warning Nobody Can Ignore

By Tony Hicks
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The latest alarm bell didn’t come from a random futurist or a hype-driven startup founder — it came from inside the engine room. A senior engineer at Anthropic , the company behind Claude, says AI agents are about to reshape nearly every computer-based job in America — and he’s blunt about what comes next: It’s going to be disruptive. It’s going to be painful. This isn’t sci-fi speculation. It’s a preview of a workplace already being rewritten in real time. 🧠 The Shift: From Chatbots to Digital Workers The key idea here isn’t just “better AI.” It’s agentic AI — systems that don’t just answer questions but actually use computers like humans do . According to Anthropic engineer Boris Cherny (creator of Claude Code), these tools are quickly learning to: run commands analyze files move between apps message collaborators build websites or software In other words: they perform the actions behind office work, not just the words. And once software can navigate the same workflow you do… the...
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Resilient Children, Struggling Parents: Mapping American Parenting

By Tony Hicks
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There was a time when parenting advice fit on a refrigerator magnet: love them, feed them, don’t let them lick electrical outlets. Now it’s a full-time research project with competing schools of thought, algorithmic judgment, and the constant suspicion that you are already screwing everything up. American parenting today is less a philosophy and more a battlefield—one where children somehow emerge adaptable, witty, digitally fluent, and emotionally articulate while their parents look like sleep-deprived graduate students trapped in an endless group project. The paradox is everywhere. Kids show surprising resilience—navigating complex social worlds, absorbing new technologies faster than adults can pronounce the app names, developing empathy and awareness at earlier ages. Meanwhile, parents report record levels of exhaustion, anxiety, and guilt. The result is a cultural landscape where childhood appears more intentional than ever, and adulthood feels increasingly unprepared. This isn’...
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Delaware Opens the Door: A Lightly Irreverent Look at Youth Careers, Job Fairs, and the Mystery of Adulting

By Tony Hicks
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The idea behind Delaware’s youth-focused career fair is simple: bring students and young adults face-to-face with employers, mentors, and agencies that can show them concrete pathways into employment — especially in public service. Instead of abstract advice like “network more,” attendees got direct access to: State employers explaining entry-level roles Information about internships and apprenticeships Guidance on training programs and career development Conversations about career mobility and long-term growth These events matter because state jobs often sit in an awkward branding space. They’re stable, meaningful, and full of advancement potential — yet they’re frequently overshadowed by the louder narratives around tech startups or corporate glamour. But public-sector work includes everything from environmental science to data analysis, transportation planning, health services, communications, IT, finance, and community outreach. In short: real careers that support entire communitie...
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