Can You Share Meals Over Zoom? One Startup Thinks So

At the height of the pandemic, Vishal Patel noticed a shift in his workday. Meetings hadn’t stopped— they’d multiplied. But the shared meals, coffee breaks, and casual conversations that once brought people together had quietly disappeared. “People were still meeting,” he said. “But they weren’t connecting.” With a background in tech, communications and a lifelong…

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How climate change affects hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones

Mark PoyntingClimate reporter NOAA via Getty A satellite image of Hurricane Melissa moving over the Caribbean Sea Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded, created “extremely dangerous and life-threatening” conditions in Jamaica, according to the US National Hurricane Center. Climate change is not thought to increase the number of hurricanes, typhoons and…

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