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Jan 2025
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Banks Selling X Debt, UK’s Four-Day Work...

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In this episode of 'Discover Daily', we explore three significant stories shaping our world. The episode kicks off with a deep dive into the financial landscape of X (formerly Twitter), where Morgan Stanley leads a consortium of banks preparing to sell billions in Musk-related debt at a discounted rate, reflecting the platform's challenging journey since its $44 billion acquisition.

We then transitions to examining the growing momentum of the four-day workweek movement in the UK, where 200 companies across various sectors are pioneering this revolutionary approach to work-life balance, despite some implementation challenges.

And finally, we conclude with an extraordinary geological discovery - the Davis Strait proto-microcontinent, hidden beneath the waters between Greenland and Canada. This remarkable formation, spanning 400 kilometers with a continental crust thickness of 19-24 kilometers, provides unprecedented insights into Earth's tectonic history. The microcontinent's formation process, which began 118 million years ago, serves as a pristine example of continental breakup mechanisms and offers valuable clues about our planet's future geological evolution.

From Perplexity's Discover Feed:

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/banks-selling-x-debt-Twz2jcL4RfiYdBIjE91HZA

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/uks-four-day-workweek-push-4kKE6f18TJmxjFlwdTjKAQ 

​​https://www.perplexity.ai/page/new-microcontinent-discovered-_EQhEW.7QR6DtKUViXRXzg

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