25 2025 September
The New Science of the Trend Towards Grey Divorces
Couples that get divorced later in life when their children are already adults was once a rarely studied field—particularly the effects on those adult children...
Read Now23 2025 September
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Design for a Radically Changing World by Diane Hoskins and Andy Cohen
The offices (or coffee shops) we work in, bridges we drive across, and temples we pray in were all imagined, designed, and built by architects....
Read Now19 2025 September
The Clever Secret Message Behind South Park’s Delayed Episode
There was a new episode scheduled for South Park on Comedy Central last night. It never aired. When the announcement was made, it came alongside this...
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 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 Now07 2025 August
The Book on How NOT To Use AI Is Being Written Right Now
European payment network Klarna was one of the first fintech companies to go all in on AI. They were even featured as a case study by OpenAI....
Read Now30 2025 July
The Future Will Include AI For Dynamic Pricing … Here’s What Could Happen Next
Here are two stories from this week that don’t seem to be related to one another. The first is about Delta testing AI for dynamic...
Read Now29 2025 July
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Up the Organization by Robert Townsend
Up the Organization was published in the mid-seventies, which technically makes it just about as old as I am. The lessons, though, are actually timeless and...
Read Now28 2025 July
How AI Is Exposing the Idiocy of Influencer Marketing
Recently, an AI generated influencer went viral at Wimbledon. She wasn’t the first, but there was a firestorm of stories about how she is the...
Read Now17 2025 July
An Important Lesson About Youth Culture from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Every summer on the National Mall in DC the Smithsonian hosts their Folklife Festival. Typically, the weekend-long event brings craftspeople from around the world to...
Read Now16 2025 July
Researchers Are Now Hiding Prompts in Papers to Guarantee Good AI Reviews
Research papers from a variety of academics published in multiple journals were found to contain prompts hidden in white text instructing AI reviewer tools with...
Read Now