21 2024 March
If Anyone Can Explain The “Weight Loss Revolution” … It Might Be Oprah
The “meta-narrative” of Oprah’s legendary media career has been her weight loss and body image. As a result, she may be the perfect ambassador to...
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The Curious Annual Ritual of Frog Shuttling and Why People Do It
You may have seen videos in your social media feed of animal lovers saving a baby chick who falls into a storm drain, or a...
Read Now06 2024 March
Why Americans Stopped Hanging Out and the Crisis of Social Fitness
A long read last week from The Atlantic offered this viral headline – Why Americans Stopped Hanging Out. Around the same time, I came across...
Read Now04 2024 March
Getting Ready For The Dynamic Pricing Future Of All Things
This week Wendy’s unintentionally stirred up some trouble as headlines popped up online that the fast-food chain was testing “surge pricing” similar to Uber where...
Read Now28 2024 February
How Bad News Might Be Making Us Worse Humans
We might all be getting addicted to bad news. I was thinking about this point as I considered my own reactions to two other disturbing stories...
Read Now07 2024 February
New Program at Supermarkets Will Use Facial Scanning to Check Age
Welcome to a case study on why facial scanning is a bad idea. Supermarkets in the UK have been experimenting for the past year with...
Read Now05 2024 February
The Gen Z Gender Divide
For all the research and articles you might have read about the habits and beliefs from one generation to the next, one assumption has remained...
Read Now03 2024 February
We Need Another Word for Different Types of Plagiarism
Given the recent increased usage of AI tools and the story of the ouster of Harvard President Claudine Gay for plagiarism, it seems we hear...
Read Now31 2024 January
How To Put Numbers in Context During an Election Year
I have bad news for all of us. The non-stop media coverage of politics has already started and it’s an election year here in the...
Read Now12 2024 January
Will 2024 Be the Year Cities Finally Ditch Parking Minimums?
What if the one of the biggest reasons for poverty and homelessness in cities wasn’t a lack of money or ballooning health care costs, but...
Read Now10 2024 January
A Rare Roundup of African Startups and Countries to Watch in 2024
In the process of curating this newsletter every week, I read a lot of stories about startups and innovation. Hardly any feature case studies from...
Read Now26 2023 December
The Most Positive and Uplifting News From 2023 … in an Infographic
Just in time for the end of the year, the team at Information is Beautiful has put together an infographic with all the “positive trends...
Read Now23 2023 December
The 2024 Soft Power Survey Honors Countries Who Still Practice the Art of Diplomacy in Complex Times
Pandas have long been used as a symbol of international cooperation. Known as “envoys of friendship,” the loaning of pandas from China to other nations...
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