Postcode Roulette: How Your Street Address Became the World’s Least Fun Lottery Ticket By Dave’s Foreign Desk In 2019, a baby born on the north side of the River Liffey in Dublin had a 94 % chance of reaching primary school without contracting tuberculosis. Had the same infant emerged from a womb three kilometres south—still…
Vadim Kruglov: The Name Nobody Knew They Needed to Fear (But Will Anyway) By the time the New York Times’ push alert finally caught up, Vadim Kruglov had already cost roughly 38 % of the planet a decent night’s sleep. From his modest office in a Yekaterinburg suburb—decorated, if that’s the word, with a dying…
Rivian Stock: A Global Vanity Mirror on Four Wheels By Dave’s Locker International Desk Somewhere between the Arctic Circle and the Singapore Strait, investors are staring at the same flickering green-red ticker that spells RIVN and wondering what it says about their own national neuroses. The electric-truck startup, born in a converted Illinois Mitsubishi plant,…
