OZY Daily Dose

For the past decade-plus, sports fans have been deluged with concussion talk: From the movie Concussion to various documentaries and TV chatter about head injuries, to stars and the future of America’s football colossus … and we still don’t know the half of it. Why? Because studying concussions in the other half, women, is green science. Now, two researchers at Virginia Tech University, professor Steve Rowson and Ph.D.

There's more to love than you ever imagined. OZY's Love Curiously explores the many facets of romance and commitment. OZY's Love Curiously explores the many facets of romance and commitment. There's more to love than you ever imagined. OZY's Love Curiously explores the many facets of romance and commitment. “App dating is so toxic and not mentally good for me,” reads a Reddit user’s comment on a thread that talks about user safety on dating apps.

It’s normal for doctors to be summoned at odd hours to deal with medical emergencies. It’s the nature of the job. But when Dr. DK Satpathy was shaken in the wee hours of Dec. 3, 1984, he was completely unprepared for what he would see. He had no idea that the worst industrial disaster in the history of the world was unfolding in his city Bhopal, capital of the then-largest Indian state Madhya Pradesh.

In a new five-part podcast, in partnership with Smartsheet, OZY paints a picture of the workplace to come, from productivity and privacy to social enterprise and the rise of gamification. Listen up on OZY.com, Spotify, Apple or wherever you prefer to stream your audio. What is the best way to find meaning at work? It’s a question for the ages and one that will become even more important in the years ahead.

There are many legends of how Lord Balaji, one face of the Hindu deity Vishnu, lost a portion of his hair. But while the details vary, they agree on a few things: Lord Balaji was hit on the head, and the hair ceased to grow from that spot. A woman, hoping to help, offered up some of her own flowing hair to cover the god’s bald patch. This legend is why every day as many as 75,000 devotees visit the Tirupati Balaji temple dedicated to Lord Balaji.

Swipe. Swipe. Swipe. Gabrielle, 19, into cheese. Mohammed, 26, always on time. Eddy, 32, has a profile picture that’s a caricature of himself and insists he is both “healthy” and likes nightclubs. Whoomies, the app they’re on, isn’t really like Tinder, but it’s among a slew of apps that have sprung up in the past five years worldwide that use the swipe feature as a gateway drug for those accustomed to the functionality of the world’s best-worst dating app.

What began a week and a half earlier as a labor movement of excitement had started to turn ugly. Our strike got launched with us screaming for the essentials that teachers have been needing in Chicago for years: a nurse and social worker in every school, guaranteed nap time for preschoolers, classrooms with fewer than 32 students, affordable housing for our homeless students and families, and basic resources for special education students and English Language Learners.

IPhone? Check. Portable speaker? Check. Empty park? Check. Brittney Carter is ready. Reciting lyrics over and over in her head, the 28-year-old Chicago native takes her position on the park staircase as rehearsed. Today, her production crew of one is her boyfriend, serving as cameraman and audio technician.

When CG Chen answered the phone, she was shocked to hear her friend Simon Bunyi say he was being evicted. Bunyi, 28, had been laid off. His tech job had helped him financially support his family overseas, and he had concealed how precarious his situation had become. Bunyi’s friends sprung into action: Chen, 27, searched for information about eviction proceedings while another friend scoured job sites. Hours later, they’d combed through every social service they could find.

What happens in China never stays in China. African swine flu among Chinese pig herds has led to the loss of hundreds of millions of pigs. Chinese domestic pork prices have rocketed as the country’s pig herd, normally about 450 million strong, has dropped by more than half. The country’s meat imports have leaped too, as Beijing has sought to fill the gap.