Choosing the right topic or niche for your book isn’t about guessing what “the market” wants. It’s about finding the overlap between what you can write brilliantly, what readers actually care about, and what makes sense strategically. Here’s a practical, … Read More
Most of the world celebrates Christmas on December 25. But in many churches and countries you’ll also see Christmas on January 7, January 6, or (in one famous local exception) January 19. The differences aren’t about different stories—they’re mostly about … Read More
Jackie Chan was celebrated at Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival, receiving the Pardo alla Carriera (Career Leopard) on Aug. 9 in front of a packed Piazza Grande—an official nod to his six decades of reinvention in action cinema. Festival organizers announced … Read More
Russia signals possible return to nuclear testing Vladimir Putin ordered officials to draft options for a potential nuclear-weapons test—Russia’s first since the Soviet era—framing it as a response to recent U.S. rhetoric about restarting tests. Moscow hasn’t said an explosion … Read More
The short answer: United States: Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November. Earliest possible date: November 22; latest: November 28. This year (2025): Thursday, November 27. Canada: Thanksgiving is the second Monday in October. Earliest possible date: October 8; latest: … Read More
For most new or growing sites: Use a card processor (e.g., Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, Checkout.com) as your primary, add PayPal Checkout as an alternative, and turn on wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay) plus relevant local methods (e.g., SEPA Direct Debit, … Read More
OpenAI has announced Aardvark, an “agentic security researcher” built on GPT-5 that continuously scans software projects for exploitable bugs and proposes fixes. The tool launched in private beta on October 30 and is pitched as a way to help engineering … Read More
Content marketing is a strategic approach to creating and distributing useful, relevant content to attract, engage, and retain a clearly defined audience—and ultimately drive profitable customer action. Instead of pitching products directly, you earn attention by helping people solve problems, … Read More
President Donald Trump called on Senate Republicans to eliminate the chamber’s 60-vote filibuster threshold, pressing for the so-called “nuclear option” to push through a funding bill and end a government shutdown now in its 30th day. The president argued that … Read More
Justice is one of those words we use with confidence—until someone asks us to define it. Is it fairness? Desert? Equality? Obedience to law? Relief from suffering? The short answer is: justice names how we ought to arrange our lives … Read More
Around Socrates was a whole host of sophists, rhetoricians, exegetes, poets, and prophets, whose wisdom is put to the test by the master; Plato parodies them more or less cruelly: there is Hippias, who boasts of teaching and practicing all … Read More
