
05 2018 September
Why The Brazilian National Museum Fire Matters
The story of the devastating fire this week at the National Museum of Brazil made me unexplainably sad. Yet on three different trips to Brazil,...
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28 2018 August
The Loneliness Industry and the World’s Saddest Product
About a year and a half ago, a Japanese company called Gatebox released a depressing preview video of a new AI powered “Holographic Wife” that would offer...
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23 2018 August
Why Facebook Rating Your Trustworthiness Is Good News
The Washington Post story this week revealing the “previously unreported ratings system” used by Facebook to rate the trustworthiness of users on a scale of zero...
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20 2017 October
Google’s Cupcake Problem Shows The Dangers Of Tunnel Vision
Recently Google engineers tested a Maps feature that equated the distance you walk to a number of mini-cupcakes you would burn off in equivalent calories....
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30 2017 August
An Inside Look At The First Robotic Microapartment Design
As apartments get smaller and urban areas get more crowded, real estate companies and residents themselves will look for more creative ways to use limited...
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26 2017 August
How A Small Food Tour Explains Arab Culture In Michigan
Five years ago, Devon Akmon, director of the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan was inspired by a food tour experience to create something...
Read Now18 2017 August
Esports Could Be An Olympic Sport By 2024
After years of pushback, some people think that esports may be on the verge of recognition as a “real” sport – courtesy of the International Olympic Committee.
Read Now10 2017 August
IKEA Creates 72 Regional Versions Of Its Iconic Catalog … Here’s Why
This week IKEA will release its new 2018 catalog, and this timely piece looks at how a small internal army of hundreds of photographers, art...
Read Now09 2017 August
How To Break Up With Your Bank Over Ethical Differences
In a perfect example of Passive Loyalty (a 2017 trend from Non-Obvious), this article on discusses how to break up with your bank. While changing banks is notoriously...
Read Now26 2017 July
Why Chief Marketing Officers Don’t Last
The tenure of most Chief Marketing Officers is woefully short, but this fact is often dismissed as a symptom of changing leadership or sometimes ineffective...
Read Now20 2017 July
MIT Shares Theory On Why Some Neighborhoods Evolve
Why do some neighborhoods evolve and gentrify while others don’t? This fascinating story is about a joint research program between MIT and Harvard to identify...
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6 Awesome Ways Canada Is Celebrating Its 150th Anniversary
As we head into a time when both America and Canada celebrate their national birthdays – this week’s newsletter takes an inside look at some...
Read Now25 2017 May
IKEA’s Secret Insights, Google Explains Syria And The “Avolatte”
What is the most hipster-centric product you could imagine? The answer is just one of the six interesting stories curated for you in this week’s...
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