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What Will the World Remember About 2025?

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What Will the World Remember About 2025? A year when AI, climate, and power all crossed a line in the sand Framing the Question When we ask  what the world will remember about 2025 fifty years from now , we’re really asking which of today’s headlines will harden into tomorrow’s history. Most years blur together; a few become shorthand — “1968,” “1989,” “2020.” 2025 has all the ingredients to join that list: surging artificial intelligence, record planetary heat, and a reshuffling of global power. In this post, we’ll explore why future generations may see 2025 less as “just another year” and more as a hinge — the moment when AI left the lab, climate warnings stopped being abstract, and a new geopolitical era took shape. How History Actually Remembers a Year If you look backward, history tends to compress years into one or two dominant stories: 1969 : the Moon landing 1989 : the fall of the Berlin Wall 2001 : 9/11 2020 : the COVID-19 pandemic Of course, many other things happened in ...
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How much impact does the holiday season have on US retail?

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How much impact does the holiday season have on US retail?  Holiday retail Why two hyper-charged months matter more than the other ten High-level framing The  holiday season impact on US retail  is massively out of proportion to the calendar: roughly  one-fifth of annual retail sales  and an outsized share of profit are packed into November and December. That makes these weeks a stress test for pricing, inventory, e-commerce performance, and consumer confidence. If you work in or around retail, understanding how concentrated this demand is — and how fragile it can be — is key to reading results, planning strategy, and managing risk. The 20% that decides the year The short answer: the holiday season is a big deal. In a typical year,  November–December accounts for about 18–20% of annual U.S. retail sales , even though it’s just one-sixth of the calendar. For some chains, especially toys, hobbies, and seasonal goods,  25–30% of y...
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How many ancient stories are layered into today’s Christmas?

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How many ancient stories are layered into today’s Christmas? Unwrapping the hidden myths, festivals, and symbols inside one “simple” holiday  Big-picture framing Your Christmas tree is a Norse pagan. Gift-giving has Roman fingerprints. The feast is medieval. And that’s before we even get to Jesus. Modern Christmas isn’t one story—it’s several old stories sharing a stage. Over centuries, Rome, the early church, northern Europe, saint legends, and modern commerce all contributed symbols and customs that fused into something familiar. Seeing those layers doesn’t “ruin” Christmas; it gives you vocabulary for how traditions absorb meaning over time—and why this holiday became such a powerful global magnet. So…how many ancient stories are we really talking about? If you want a neat number like “three,” you won’t get it. History doesn’t separate cleanly. But we  can  name the major narrative layers that show up again and again. A useful working answer:  five...
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