Venice Expands Day-Tripper Access Fee to 54 Days for 2025
Venice's 2025 access fee covers 54 days at €5 standard and €10 late-booked, with registration required even for exempt hotel guests. Here is what changes for planners.
Newsroom
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SEC closes another batch of crypto enforcement cases — what it means for newcomers
The SEC dropped major exchange lawsuits in 2025. Here is what that actually changes for newcomers — and what it does not.
Kindle Gained EPUB Support Through Send to Kindle — With a Conversion Catch
Amazon's Send to Kindle has accepted EPUB since 2022, converting files to Amazon formats on delivery. Here is what shipped, what it changes, and what it doesn't.
How the Bitcoin Halving Works and What It Changes
125 BTC. A primer on the schedule, mining economics, and why price patterns around it remain contested.
Klarna's IPO Filing Shows a Smaller Company Than the $45 Billion Peak: What the Document Says
6 billion 2021 valuation. Here is what the document says and what stays open.
The 2 percent problem: women founders and venture funding
Solely women-founded startups take about 2 percent of US venture dollars, per PitchBook data — what the research says about why, and what evidence supports.
How Much Protein Do You Actually Need Each Day?
8 g/kg daily — a floor, not a target. 0 g/kg and adults over 65 for a bit more. Here's the research, plainly.
How Much Protein You Actually Need When You Train
0 g/kg range, meal distribution over timing, and what the pre-sleep evidence actually shows — sourced to named position stands and studies.
How to read USDA crop reports without overreacting
Prospective Plantings, WASDE and Grain Stocks each answer a different question; an operator's guide to reading USDA reports and their revision risk.
How Book Advances and Royalties Actually Work
Hardcover royalties run 10–15% of list, ebooks 25% of net, and most books never earn out — the advance system explained with its standard terms and standard traps.
Pride Budgets Shrink in Some Cities While Community Funders Step In
Corporate sponsors pulled back after 2023-2025; organizers are rebuilding Pride budgets from small-dollar donations and grants. What changes for communities.
Severance Returns January 17, 2025, Nearly Three Years After Its First Season
Severance season 2 arrives January 17, 2025, 35 months after season 1 — a gap shaped by strikes, backlogs, and Apple's patience economics, and a test of whether slow-burn attention survives the wait.
The semaglutide heart trial that changed the obesity-drug conversation, in close-up
The SELECT trial, published in NEJM in 2023, found semaglutide cut major cardiovascular events by 20 percent in adults with heart disease and overweight.
The Evidence on Cold Plunges Is Thinner Than You Think
Cold water reliably cuts soreness — and controlled trials show it can blunt muscle and strength gains after lifting. What the research supports, and what it doesn't.
How to Earn a Teaching Credential While Working Full Time
Alternative certification runs in every state, takes one to two years, and about a quarter of new teachers enter through it — here are the routes, costs, and the one scheduling catch.
The Patriot system explained: what its radar and interceptors actually do, per official documents
Patriot runs one multifunction radar and two opposite kill philosophies — PAC-2 fragmentation and PAC-3 hit-to-kill. A mechanism explainer built from official documents and hedged manufacturer claims.
Spotify Put Audiobooks in Every Premium Plan — What It Means for Ebooks
Spotify's Premium audiobook bundle — 15 listening hours, a 350,000-title catalog, and subscription economics replacing per-title purchases for spoken editions.
RevPAR, ADR, GOPPAR: what each metric actually tells an operator
RevPAR measures demand, ADR measures price and mix, GOPPAR measures profit per available room. Here is how the three read together, with the diagnostic pairings operators use monthly.
Simone Biles and the Longest Four Years in Gymnastics
From the Tokyo twisties to three Paris 2024 golds and 11 Olympic medals — the documented career arc of Simone Biles, built from official results and her own on-record words.
How Many Drafts Is Enough
Working novelists' documented draft counts cluster at three to five — but what each draft is for matters more than the number. From the writers' own accounts.
How accurate police facial recognition is, according to the federal tests
2 percent on clear photos but 10-100 times more often in police-style conditions and for some demographic groups. Here is what the record shows.
Formula 1 Returns to Miami Gardens With a Bigger Footprint Than Ever
The Miami Grand Prix has run at Hard Rock Stadium since 2022 under a 10-year deal, with 270,000+ attendance — and a community-benefit agreement with Miami Gardens that sets the annual trade.
How Blackjack's House Edge Actually Works
5 percent with basic strategy and only moves one direction — rule by rule, what moves it, what 6:5 tables really cost, and what counting can and cannot do.
How the Direct Market Actually Works, From Preorders to the Wednesday Shelf
Nonreturnable preorders placed two months out, a 1990s monopoly broken in 2020, and distributor-specific charts — the comic-shop pipeline from Previews to Wednesday, explained.
No, the Pope never endorsed Trump — the claim's actual origin
The Pope never endorsed Trump — the claim started on a satire site in November 2016 and was laundered into fake news. Here's the documented origin trail.
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