Upstract is my next small thing in the news space — made for those who miss the days when Digg 1.0 was fun, Reddit less of a political play, and content discovery all about genuine affinity and...
If you have ever been truly poor (or a soldier or mountain man), you understand that having potable water, edible food, immediate physical safety, lifegiving medicine, heat in the winter, and...
The pandemic has forced beauty brands to ditch shiny shopfronts and drag makeup into the future
The real estate gurus of YouTube espouse an ideology suited to a world where financialization has made wannabe investors of us all.
Inside one of the strangest corners of the international insurance market
More than 40% of Germans are cutting down on meat, and vegan burgers are a shopping mall staple
Studies show people living in the Arctic Circle are armed with a mindset that helps combat the long ‘polar night’. It might come in handy for us all…
Screens are a fixture in children's lives from a young age, but giving them access to television, tablets or phones doesn't always have a negative impact on their development.
Leonid S. is eight and a half feet tall, and he is still growing. He is 34 years old, weighs 480 pounds, and he is still growing. He can't fit in a car, wears size 26 EEEEE shoes, can pick apples...
Midway between dainty afternoon tea and grab-and-go farmhouse lunch, Amy Theilen’s pickle sandwich is an under-the-radar fixture of American home snacking.
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. In order to make progress, one must leave...
Cheaters never win…unless you’re talking about video games.
1960: The first televised debate pitted Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy against Republican Vice President Richard Nixon, who was recovering from a hospital visit and had a 5 o’clock shadow, having
As the effects of climate change are intensifying, ecology is "playing a bigger role in fascist ideology across the board."
The complicated notion of glamour in classic Hollywood, suggesting that stars were aloof and unknowable, was also a means to sell products.
As it marched from East to West this year, the coronavirus pandemic sank economies and transformed social interactions. It shut schools and businesses, stopped the sports and entertainment...
One company has exclusive rights to the source of the iconic pigment—a copper mine's supply of iron deposits that may last just a century more
NDB Company says its nano diamond battery will absolutely upend the energy equation, acting like tiny nuclear generators. Which last upto 28000 years.
The e-commerce giant had struggled to gain a foothold in a society that prefers to shop in person, with cash, but now Italians are hooked on online shopping.
Scientists are challenging conventional notions of how dust particles are aligned; “everything we’ve so far hypothesized about the impact of dust on the atmosphere might be misplaced.”
What makes good or bad design happen anywhere depends on who has the most power.
Half of UK parents say their children have missed a check-up since restrictions began in March – survey
Referendum called by rightwing Swiss People’s party rejected by 61.7% of voters
The logistics company is looking at putting the aircraft in "very remote and uninhabited areas" of its network, CEO Fred Smith told investors this week.
A once-in-a-century “climate anomaly” exacerbated the awful conditions along the Western Front in Europe during the First World War, according to new research. This unusual weather may have also...
“People are basically good” was eBay’s founding principle. But in the deranged summer of 2019, prosecutors say, a campaign to terrorize a blogger crawled out of a dark place in the corporate soul.
Humans like to feel optimistic about and in control of where their life is headed. The pandemic has made it very hard to feel that way.
The moderator of one of Mexico’s 2018 debates on one of the most terrifying experiences in journalism.
Forget planking – or any other useless but mildly entertaining stunts you might have seen via Tik Tok for that matter. Before all that, came the strange spectacle of pole-sitting, a fad that...
Amazon’s new show Utopia tells the story of a plot to depopulate the earth with a pandemic. It’s just the latest paranoid drama to offer perverse comfort, writes David Jesudason.
Wall Street defense attorney Vinoo Varghese fact checks financial crime scenes from movies and television including 'The Wolf of Wall Street,' 'Catch Me If Y...
If screaming will likely occur, greater distancing is advised
Venice Syndrome spots the similarities between Venice and 2 replicas of Venice (a chinese replica in Hangzhou and Las Vegas)
