Work & Money

The interview mistakes so bad they make forgetting a name feel cute

You shouldn’t have mentioned hating your old boss, but at least you didn’t bring your parents.

Interviewing for a job is a special kind of psychological obstacle course. First, you beat the AI bots and the embellished resumes. Then you sit across from a stranger and try to project confidence, competence, and normal human behavior with your livelihood on the line. No pressure.

You’re going to mess up. Everyone does. But there’s messing up, and then there’s showing up with your boyfriend and letting him answer the questions. Or admitting you don’t actually know how to do the job because your spouse usually handles that part.

In this story by Erik Barnes, job hunters confess their most spectacular interview disasters. The kind that will make your own awkward moment feel almost… charming.

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Environment

Norway pulled off what the US still can’t with electric cars

There are so many incentives that almost anyone could afjord (ahem) an EV.

Ah, Norway, land of the Northern Lights, Vikings, and near-perfect EV adoption. The irony here is thick: Norway is known for unplugging, which is why they love saunas. They’re also incredibly rich in oil reserves. Still, in 2025, 95.9 percent of all new car sales in Norway were fully electric. There will be a lot less exhaust stinking up the endless coastlines and striking mountain views.

How did Norway hit this landmark when the United States, birthplace of Tesla and car culture in general, is lagging behind at a piddly EV adoption rate of 10.5%? As Mark Wales reports, the answers are many.

Americans love bigger cars, and though research shows it almost never comes up, everyone seems to imagine needing to drive three hundred miles at the drop of a hat. A full-court misinformation press from the old-school car companies hasn’t helped. Though EVs have proven much cheaper to maintain, one cited fear in the US was the increased cost of upkeep.

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In yesterday’s issue, we covered research showing that “Deep Reading” could be the key to staving off the torrent of misinformation in modern media.

So, how often do GOOD readers read? A lot, and as a writer, I love you for it!

• I read voraciously. Novels, magazines, articles... (39.5%)

• As much as I can, not as much as I'd like, though. (49.6%)

• I'm that person: I read the headlines and infer the rest. (6.2%)

• Do emails, text messages, and Netflix subtitles count? (4.7%)

Reader Marsha Shields is putting up the sort of number I could only dream of. “I read every day. Probably complete 80 to 100 books a year.” I’m jealous, Marsha. So jealous.

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Health

Four unlikely tools could stop the post-antibiotic nightmare

We’ve been training bacteria to kill us more effectively, but there might be hope.

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and unfortunately, that’s as true for bacteria as it is for people. For nearly a century, humans have used antibiotics to combat bacterial infections, and all that time, bacteria have been fighting back. Every time we reach for a broad-spectrum drug to treat an unknown infection, every time a prescribed regimen isn’t completed, and even when antibiotics leak into the food chain, we apply evolutionary pressure that favors the survivors. Those bacteria learn how to endure, reproduce, and pass that resistance on.

Our medical and economic systems only compound the problem. There’s little profit in drugs that must be used sparingly, and the financial incentives for developing new antibiotics are badly misaligned.

So are we reaching the end of the antibiotic era? A brief moment in human history when we had a reliable defense against one of our deadliest threats? According to microbiologist André O. Hudson, not yet. He argues that a quartet of emerging tools could still help humanity regain the upper hand.

On January 21, 1976, humanity took its first and, so far, only step into the supersonic jet age. It was the promised dream of the post-World War II technological explosion made real.

Fifty years ago today, two Concorde jets made simultaneous inaugural flights, one from France to Rio de Janeiro and one from England to Bahrain. Flight times were slashed. Passengers gazed at the Earth’s curvature through tiny windows, sipped champagne and ate caviar, and flew at speeds over Mach 2, faster than any civilian ever had or would until the recent arrival of commercial spaceflight.

The supersonic future lasted barely 25 years, and it struggled almost the entire time. Concorde, an expensive joint effort by France and England, ran into unfriendly regulations, stubborn physics, and brutal economics.

Tickets between New York and London cost $7,574 round-trip, more than $15,000 in today’s dollars, putting it out of reach for almost everyone. Sonic booms kept it off overland routes. Oil shocks made every afterburner minute painfully expensive. A tiny fleet demanded eye-watering maintenance for a boutique schedule.

Then came a fatal crash in 2000, a demand slump after 9/11, and a growing awareness of the environmental cost of wealthy people rocketing across the Atlantic, sipping bubbly. All of it coincided with the first hints of an internet-connected world.

Today, there is little talk of a second supersonic era. The physics have not changed, and going that fast still requires immense thrust and vast amounts of expensive, polluting fuel. More importantly, the core idea behind Concorde has faded. Time in the air is no longer wasted when you can stay online, and face-to-face meetings can happen over Zoom.

Basically, “this could have been an email” put the final nail in the jet-age dream Concorde was built to make real.

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