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03 2026 August
What AI Generated Bird Photos Can Teach Us About Database Pollution
One of the engaging art concepts from AI artist Kelly Boesch features a collection of birds that don’t exist. The video is hard to stop watching,...
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What Entitlement Looks Like? Adrien Brody’s Oscars Award Acceptance Speech
When the Best Actor award was announced and Adrien Brody took the top honor for the second time, he headed toward stage and abruptly stopped....
Read Now12 2025 March
The Ultimate Movie Brand Partnership: Kleenex and IMDB Launch “The Kleenex Score”
There aren’t many brands that define their entire category so much that people literally use the brand name interchangeably to describe the product. Kleenex has...
Read Now11 2025 March
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Endless Refrain by David Rowell
What would a world without any new music sound like? Perhaps we are already there, a reality music writer and journalist David Rowell explores in...
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How a Pharma Ad Ban Could Shift the Landscape of Television Advertising
The advertising industry is anxiously awaiting potential news that newly appointed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who started his term by single-handedly bringing the...
Read Now07 2025 March
The Inside Story of Elon Musk’s Takeover of the US Government and Why It Matters
Here’s the TLDR version of this story: Elon Musk is a visionary who believes he alone knows what humanity needs to thrive in the future and...
Read Now06 2025 March
Inside the Blind Box Phenomenon Fueling the Resurgence of the Art Toy Industry
Outside a Pop Mart store in Vietnam there is a line around the block at 2am. The cause for all this excitement is the latest blind...
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The Subtle Master Plan Behind De Beers New DiamondProof In-Store Verification Device
A little over six months ago, De Beers Group announced the DiamondProof “diamond verification instrument” at a jewelry trade show in Las Vegas. The idea was that...
Read Now04 2025 March
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Community Data by Rahul Bhargava
For my book selection this week I’ll start by sharing that I have known this author for literally his entire life—because it’s my younger brother,...
Read Now03 2025 March
Unemployment Is Low, But No One Is Hiring. Experts Are Calling It The Big Freeze.
What do you call it when unemployment is at record lows at the same time that hiring is similarly stalled? Actually, there’s no word for...
Read Now28 2025 February
The Truth About the Penny
No one wants one. People will walk past a penny lying on the street, a real-life demonstration of just how worthless it is for most...
Read Now27 2025 February
Why Directors Are Only Casting Actors with Lots of Instagram Followers
A big presence on social media may have seemed like a nice-to-have for creators but in the case of Hollywood films, there’s growing evidence that...
Read Now26 2025 February
The Manufactured Controversy Around Michael Jackson’s 12 Unreleased Songs
Michael Jackson recorded 12 songs with his longtime producer Bryan Loren that were never released to the public. According to multiple sources, the songs have...
Read Now25 2025 February
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week:The Long View by Richard Fisher
What will it take to transform the way the world views time? Richard Fisher, a senior journalist with BBC Global News, explores this question and...
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