A New Generation Of Zoomers | Getentrepreneurial.com

April 27, 2020April 27, 2020 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Can’t stop confusing your Zoomers and millennials? When it comes to hiring, the differences matter. According to Pew Research, millennials were born between 1981 and 1996 which makes them 24 to 39 years old in 2020; Zoomers (or Zers or Generation Z) were born starting in 1997, so the oldest turn 23 this year. This all means your potential hiring pool will change as Gen Z is 24 percent of the global workforce this year, according to research by Manpower.

Although, you may think these successive generations aren’t all that different, their experiences, needs and actions are diverse enough to pay attention before you hire them. Here’s what you should know.

Jaunt’s ROSA gyrodyne: The first eVTOL air taxi that actually looks safe | New Atlas

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This eVTOL air taxi design looks like a weird helicopter/plane hybrid, but it’s the safest of all the eVTOL designs we’ve ever seen, and it has another killer advantage in that it requires no special certification. That’s huge news in the emerging 3D commuting market, because it could make this thing much, much cheaper to get off the ground.

To understand why this thing is such a great idea, let’s recap two of the main hurdles that every other eVTOL designer is facing: safety and certification. The safety issue seems huge to us, although many of the eVTOL manufacturers we speak to don’t seem to see it as insurmountable. In a total failure scenario, all eVTOLs designed around multiple small rotors have a bit of an issue: they’ll simply plummet to the ground.

Polaroid Now | CoolBusinessIdeas.com

April 23, 2020April 22, 2020 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

In an age where instant photography means whipping out a smartphone and immediately sharing the digital image with friends online, a boxy camera that produces self-developing prints seems like a huge backward step. But that’s exactly what instant film cameras provide, and a revamped Polaroid has announced a new model called the Now.

The Polaroid Corporation was founded by Edwin Land in 1937, a company that originally sold polarized sunglasses. But Land went on to develop a “magic camera” that produced instant prints, which was described in a 1973 issue of Popular Science as “perhaps the most fiendishly clever invention in the history of photography.”

Oil prices may be at all-time lows, but it’s still worth buying an electric car | Mashable

April 23, 2020April 22, 2020 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

For the first time in 34 years, the price of a barrel of oil has dropped to historic lows — below $0 somehow, confusingly — but that shouldn’t erode efforts to go electric, especially for any future car purchases.

Sure, because of coronavirus social-distancing measures in most cities and states, roads are largely empty, cars are parked, most flights are canceled, and the buses and trains that are still running barely have passengers. Even auto insurance companies are recognizing how little we’re moving and offering discounts.

Starbucks China adds Beyond Meat, Omnipork and Oatly options to the menu | CNN

April 22, 2020April 22, 2020 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Fans of Starbucks in China are about to get a whole lot more oat milk lattes and meatless pastas.

Starbucks (SBUX) is teaming up with oat milk maker Oatly and plant-based protein companies Beyond Meat (BYND) and Omnipork in mainland China, offering more options free of meat or animal products at a time when a growing number of Chinese consumers are seeking choices they perceive to be healthier.

Starting Tuesday, 4,200 Starbucks stores in China will be serving vegetarian-friendly items such as oat milk matcha lattes, lasagne made with Beyond Meat’s beef product and Asian noodle salads with Omnipork.

Baby leatherback sea turtles thriving due to COVID-19 beach restrictions | Live Science

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Baby leatherback sea turtles are doing better than they have in years, now that many humans are opting (or being ordered) to stay off beaches due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On one beach in Thailand, for instance, environmentalists have found 11 leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) nests since November, the largest number of nests found there in the past two decades, according to The Guardian.

5 Major Reasons Entrepreneurs Fail by Year 2 | Business News Daily

April 21, 2020April 20, 2020 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

New businesses often fail when entrepreneurs don’t have the resources or knowledge to properly execute their ideas.

No one likes to fail, but if you do, use the valuable experience you gained to lead your next endeavor to success.

Entrepreneurs tend to fail right before peaking in the business cycle. The peak usually comes after a pitfall, which is where many entrepreneurs lose momentum.

Don’t Do What You Love, Instead Do This | Life Hack

April 21, 2020April 20, 2020 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Everywhere you look, you will find people who are not happy about their work. They wish to get more out of life or are undecided about what to do next in life.

It is during these times where you hear a particular piece of advice. You may have given it to someone else or you may have heard it yourself:

Do what you love.

This phrase comes in many forms:

Follow your passion.

With hard work and determination, you can live the dream.

Find your calling.

The optimism behind these phrases is well-intentioned, however, it is the worst kind of advice to give to anyone. Instead, I present in this article some possible alternatives to this.

This game lets you help NASA map the world’s coral reefs | Fast Company

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If you’re looking for something more interesting to do in quarantine than restream a show on Netflix, consider helping scientists map the world’s coral reefs. In a new video game from NASA called NeMO-Net, you can virtually dive in waters around the world, classifying corals in 3D images from satellites to help train a NASA supercomputer to map the rest of the world’s coral at a scale that’s never been done before.

From Hard-Shell To Chef-Driven: A New Book Traces America’s Taco Journey | Forbes

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Do you remember your first taco? Perhaps tacos are part of your background, Or, they might have been something your mother whipped up, using a recipe on the box of hard shell tacos.

Maybe it was at Taco Bell, or even something that you discovered on a bar menu.

However you were introduced to tacos, you’ll learn an enormous and entertaining amount about them in the new book, American Tacos: A History And Guide, by Jose R. Ralat.