Posts by Grazia British
This company pioneered virtual therapy for OCD. Now it wants to do the same for PTSD
[ad_1] When Stephen Smith started NOCD 11 years ago, he wanted to build an app for people like himself—one of the 8.2 million Americans with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)—to track their symptoms and time their therapy exercises. Since 2018, NOCD (pronounced “No-CD”) has provided virtual appointments with therapists specializing in OCD-focused exposure and response prevention (ERP)…
Read More‘Cold call with me’: The new TikTok trend built on phone call awkwardness
[ad_1] Sales reps, business owners and recruiters are documenting their cold calls online and cashing in on the viral content. Cold calling has existed as long as the telephone: It’s a sales technique where a representative for a company calls an individual unsolicited to attempt to hook them with their sales pitch in the first…
Read MoreWhy investors and farmers are betting on organic agriculture
[ad_1] For decades, the discussion around organic farming has centered on important tenets of sustainability, environmental health, animal welfare, and a vision for food that heals rather than harms. But in America’s fields today, a different conversation is taking root and is grounded in profits. With new economic data and over 40 years of side-by-side…
Read MoreConsumer confidence in the U.S. economy falls to lowest level since 2014
[ad_1] U.S. consumer confidence declined sharply in January, hitting the lowest level since 2014 as Americans grow increasingly concerned about their financial prospects. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index cratered 9.7 points to 84.5 in January, falling below even the lowest readings during the COVID-19 pandemic. A measure of Americans’ short-term…
Read MoreWhy Amazon is killing Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh
[ad_1] Amazon will double down on the Whole Foods brand, killing two of its own physical retail experiments in the process. The online retail giant said Tuesday that it will close all of its Amazon Go convenience stores and Amazon Fresh brick-and-mortar grocery stores. In total, around 70 locations across the two sub-brands will close,…
Read MoreUpScrolled and Skylight rising: Users race to TikTok alternatives after U.S. takeover
[ad_1] Downloads of UpScrolled, a new short-form video app, are surging after TikTok’s recent change to U.S. ownership. Developed by Palestinian Australian tech entrepreneur Issam Hijazi, the social media app currently ranks No. 2 in the U.S. in the Apple Store among free apps, following ChatGPT, and markets itself as a place “where every voice gets equal power.”…
Read MoreU.S. population growth rate dropped in 2025 amid Trump’s immigration crackdown
[ad_1] President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration contributed to a year-to-year drop in the nation’s growth rate as the U.S. population reached nearly 342 million people in 2025, according to population estimates released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 0.5% growth rate for 2025 was a sharp drop from 2024’s almost 1% growth rate, which was…
Read MorePhilip Glass cancels Kennedy Center symphony premiere to protest Trump’s leadership
[ad_1] Prize-winning composer Philip Glass has called off a scheduled world premiere at the Kennedy Center of a symphony about Abraham Lincoln, the latest in a wave of cancellations since President Donald Trump ousted the previous leadership. Glass’ Symphony No. 15, “Lincoln,” was to have been led by Grammy-winning conductor Karen Kamensek for performances on June 12 and June…
Read MoreHow to train your brain like your muscles, according to a neurologist
[ad_1] If you have ever lifted a weight, you know the routine: challenge the muscle, give it rest, feed it, and repeat. Over time, it grows stronger. Of course, muscles only grow when the challenge increases over time. Continually lifting the same weight the same way stops working. It might come as a surprise to…
Read MoreWhy CEOs pushing back on ICE could be ‘a tipping point’
[ad_1] ICE’s occupation in Minnesota has lasted weeks, and until a couple of days ago, the state’s major corporations, quick to issue statements in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, had been largely silent. When Fast Company reached out to several heavy hitters in mid-January, including Target and…
Read MoreWhy it pays to believe in luck
[ad_1] The oil tycoon J. Paul Getty was rumoured to have said that his three rules for how to become rich were: Rise early. Work hard. Strike oil. It’s one of those eminently quotable remarks because it captures something we all know to be true, that luck and chance have as much to do with…
Read MoreTrump’s trillion-dollar investments in America from foreign trading partners face skepticism
[ad_1] President Donald Trump has strong-armed many of America’s biggest trading partners into pledging trillions of dollars of investment in the United States. But a study out Tuesday raises doubts about whether the money will actually materialize and questions how it would be spent if it did. “How realistic are these commitments?’’ write Gregory Auclair…
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