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29 2026 July
The Beautiful Second Life of Decommissioned Buses
When London’s decommissioned New Routemaster buses leave the roads over the next four years, many of them will be repurposed into mobile playgrounds thanks to an award-winning...
Read Now17 2025 September
The Long-Awaited AI Copyright Payday May Soon Arrive
For years now, publishers in all categories of media have been fighting a battle with AI firms to be compensated for their content that was...
Read Now16 2025 September
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Shape of Wonder by Alan Lightman and Martin Rees
A book like this shouldn’t really be necessary. If we all had a shared understanding of why science matters, what it is and all the...
Read Now15 2025 September
Anonymity Is Dead. Are We All Really Content Now?
A CEO caught on a kiss cam having an affair isn’t just the latest social media story gone unexpectedly viral. It’s also an indication of...
Read Now12 2025 September
“Vibe Movie Making” and the Real Future of AI In Movie Production
Can AI make a good movie? That question will soon be put to the test as Open AI announced this week that they are backing an...
Read Now11 2025 September
How Fixing AI Slop Might Be the Next Big Job Opportunity … For Those Willing to Do It
What do you do when your AI generated text or image comes out not quite right? A growing number of people are turning to writers...
Read Now10 2025 September
An Advertising Campaign That Could Actually Make You Happier
You should go out and have a beer. And just in case you need a bit of encouragement, Heineken wants you to go and have...
Read Now09 2025 September
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Religion of Sports by Gotham Chopra
Last Thursday was the opening of the NFL season and a big deal in my house, as well as across America. After twenty years of...
Read Now05 2025 September
The Curious Modern Popularity of Pumpkin Spice
It’s September and pumpkin spice everything is there. Coffee, candles, cereals, Oreos, dog treats, gum, hummus and even butt wipes (entertainingly rebranded as “Dumpkin Spice”)....
Read Now04 2025 September
The Death of Articulate Criticism
No one cares what you hate on social media. Or at least they shouldn’t. But as the anonymity of the Internet offers up permission to...
Read Now03 2025 September
The Human Insight Behind a Restaurant That Promises Not to Make Any Money
A new restaurant in Manhattan called the Community Kitchen is doing a pilot test through November of a business model where people choose to pay...
Read Now02 2025 September
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
If you thought, like I did, that many of the negative impacts that Facebook has had on our culture from failing to curb the spread...
Read Now29 2025 August
How “Dumbification” May Be the Next Hot Technology Trend
What happens when all the good TVs that you can buy in the market are automatically programed as “smart” TVs, ready to connect to the...
Read Now28 2025 August
Of Course, the Cracker Barrel Logo “Backlash” Was Planned … And It Worked Perfectly
Cracker Barrel announced they were ditching their old logo for a forgettable generic new one. The news got people to pay attention. Lots of them...
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