Madison Darbyshire

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Madison Darbyshire

Landon was working in client services at a large investment bank in New York when he felt a sudden, acute pain in his groin. It had been a bad day, and he was stressed. “Everything just felt tight,” Landon (a pseudonym) said, and the “burning sensation, with sharp jolts” wouldn’t go away. Sex was painful, so he avoided it. It hurt to sit, so Landon stood at his desk on the trading floor. When his coworkers asked, he told them he had lower back pain. “They’d say, ‘Yeah man, me too’.”

4 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Madison Darbyshire

Evan Osnos’s Haves and Have Yachts explores growing wealth disparity and the subtle self-delusion embraced by the ultrarich. Watching sweaty 13-year-olds lose their minds to a performance by rapper Flo Rida at a bar mitzvah for the son of a finance executive in 2023, Evan Osnos felt something in America had changed. For decades the richest teenagers have booked big talentfor private performances, a splurge disturbingly documented by the MTV reality show My Super Sweet 16.

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Madison Darbyshire

On an April afternoon in Fort Worth, Texas, dozens of ranchers wearing tall hats, boots and pressed shirts milled around outside a conference room. The next panel discussion at the annual Cattle Raisers Convention wasn’t slated to start for another 20 minutes, but the cowboys were worried about finding seats. Everyone was anxious to talk about a parasite whose larvae feed on the flesh of living animals.

1 month ago | shorturl.at | Madison Darbyshire

On an April afternoon in Fort Worth, Texas, dozens of ranchers wearing tall hats, boots and pressed shirts milled around outside a conference room. The next panel discussion at the annual Cattle Raisers Convention wasn’t slated to start for another 20 minutes, but the cowboys were worried about finding seats. Everyone was anxious to talk about a parasite whose larvae feed on the flesh of living animals.

2 months ago | bloomberglinea.com | Madison Darbyshire |Valeria Mongelli

Bloomberg — El reluciente comedor negro y dorado del Coqodac está alborotado, y ni siquiera ha abierto aún para cenar. Una mesa de “raperos y presentadores de podcasts” se demoran en un tardío almuerzo de caviar y champán de US$4.000, dice el chef ejecutivo Seung Kyu Kim. A él no le importa: quiere que su restaurante de Manhattan, famoso por sus nuggets de pollo cubiertos de caviar (US$28 el nugget), sea un lugar al que la gente acuda para celebrar.