Saturday, July 25, 2026
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Rylo Raises $85M to Give 48M Americans with Hearing Loss Private, Independent Communication – AlleyWatch
For the 48 million Americans living with hearing loss, a phone call has never been a private act: for decades,...
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Research suggests the the happiest retirees may share two habits — a handful of interests they’ve gone deep on, and friendships they’ve deliberately rebuilt since leaving work
Retirement advice often assumes the point is to stay busy — that the calendar needs filling. The research on who...
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An 80+ year Harvard study suggests that the strongest predictor of how happy and healthy people are in later life often isn’t wealth, career success, or intelligence — it’s the quality of their close relationships
The Harvard Study of Adult Development, which began in 1938 is widely acknowledged as longest in-depth study of physical and...
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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 7/6/26 – AlleyWatch
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of...
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The 10 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of June 2026 – AlleyWatch
Armed with some data from our friends at CrunchBase, I broke down the largest NYC Startup funding rounds in New...
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Psychology says people who light up every room they enter aren’t naturally cheerful or born confident — they’re usually the ones who decided, somewhere along the way, that other people deserved to feel seen
We tend to assume the people who light up every room were simply born that way: naturally sunny, effortlessly confident,...
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Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, was worth nearly £10 billion before turning 40 — and he still owns roughly 300 acres of Mayfair and Belgravia that the family has refused to sell for three centuries
Hugh Grosvenor inherited the title 7th Duke of Westminster in 2016 at the age of 25, and with it a...
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The Vjosa in southern Albania runs 270 kilometers from the Greek mountains to the Adriatic without a single dam — making it the last truly wild river left in Europe outside Russia
The Vjosa river leaves the Pindus mountains of northern Greece as the Aoös, crosses into southern Albania near the village...
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Psychology says the people who read everything on social media but never post anything are not the shy ones or the antisocial ones — they are usually the most careful observers in the room, and they have learned that watching quietly gives them information about other people that speaking would immediately take away
The population of people who use social media without posting is much larger than most active posters realise. The Pew...
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In 1979, a Harvard psychologist named Ellen Langer took eight men in their late 70s to a retreat house redecorated exactly like 1959 — old magazines, radio broadcasts, and furniture — and asked them to live as their younger selves for a week, and by the end their eyesight, hearing, memory, and grip strength had measurably improved
In September 1979, at an old converted Catholic monastery in the wooded countryside of Peterborough, New Hampshire — approximately 90...
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