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Don’t snooze on the booming business of sleep tourism

Don’t snooze on the booming business of sleep tourism

Everyone’s tired these days. One in three adults don’t get enough sleep, and 50m-70m Americans have chronic sleep disorders. And it’s fueling a thriving sleep tourism industry, which is expected to grow by ~8% — more than $400B — between 2023 and 2028. Now, the hospitality industry is embracing sleep as the main event for tourists rather than an…

Records will now factor into UK inflation calculation

Records will now factor into UK inflation calculation

Vinyl is so in that the British government cares about how much it costs again. Records have been returned to the group of goods whose prices the UK uses to track inflation to better reflect current shopping trends, the Office for National Statistics said yesterday. Record sales After being booted from the British consumer price index in 1992 and…

Why, though? A creepy mask with no FDA clearance

Why, though? A creepy mask with no FDA clearance

They say beauty is pain. And in the case of Rejuvenique, that meant electrocuting your face while looking like you were about to participate in The Purge. In a 1999 infomercial featuring “Dynasty” star Linda Evans, Rejuvenique creator George E. Springer promises that the odd white mask — priced at $180, or ~$338 today — can do for…

Is it a mirage or a golf club? A new utopian desert rendering just dropped

Is it a mirage or a golf club? A new utopian desert rendering just dropped

Remember Neom, the $1T utopia being built on 10.2k square miles of Saudi Arabian desert? If not, here’s a refresher: It’s a special zone that will operate independently of Saudi Arabia’s government, with its own judicial system and taxes, that’s owned by the country’s public investment fund. And it’s busy cooking up out-of-this-world projects, like Gidori, Neom’s newly announced “flagship…