Skip to Main Content

Trends & Culture

post thumbnail for Should All Celebrities Be Advocates?

20 2024 May

Should All Celebrities Be Advocates?

Earlier this month, a campaign on TikTok known as Blockout 2024 was launched as a response to tone-deaf social media posts from celebrities and online...

Read Now
post thumbnail for Imagining the Future of Hip Hop and Art in 50 Years

14 2024 May

Imagining the Future of Hip Hop and Art in 50 Years

The day after the Met Gala, the Internet was flooded with deep fakes of celebrities who weren’t there, wearing things they never wore. Some of them...

Read Now
post thumbnail for Playgrounds and Swing Sets Aren’t Just for Kids Anymore

03 2024 May

Playgrounds and Swing Sets Aren’t Just for Kids Anymore

Here’s a radical thought that really shouldn’t be: what if playgrounds were designed for teenagers instead of younger kids? At the Anna C. Verna Playground...

Read Now
post thumbnail for Why Industrial Tourism Is One of the Fastest Growing Trends in Travel

26 2024 April

Why Industrial Tourism Is One of the Fastest Growing Trends in Travel

Portugal is one of several countries investing big into industrial tourism – a term that describes experiences where travelers can visit factories to see how products get...

Read Now
post thumbnail for Detroit Rides “Post Bankruptcy Energy” To Become America’s Most Unlikely Boomtown, According to WSJ

25 2024 April

Detroit Rides “Post Bankruptcy Energy” To Become America’s Most Unlikely Boomtown, According to WSJ

About ten years ago, no one would have said the city of Detroit would be sitting at the perfect crossroads of multiple urban trends. Around...

Read Now
post thumbnail for Meet Tupperware: The Slowly Fading Brand That Should Have Won the Nostalgia Trend

18 2024 April

Meet Tupperware: The Slowly Fading Brand That Should Have Won the Nostalgia Trend

Tupperware parties were a thing; once so iconic that they symbolized an entire cultural movement of work-from-home (mostly) female entrepreneurs in a time when opportunities...

Read Now
post thumbnail for Augmented Reality Comes to Sports, Thanks to Wrestlemania

15 2024 April

Augmented Reality Comes to Sports, Thanks to Wrestlemania

Last weekend The Rock made his return to wrestling and a “new era” for the sport was on display at WWE’s Wrestlemania 40 event. The...

Read Now
post thumbnail for Aruba Becomes First Nation to Use the Internet Archive to Back up Their Entire History

11 2024 April

Aruba Becomes First Nation to Use the Internet Archive to Back up Their Entire History

The Indigenous population of Aruba was first colonized by the Spanish, and then the Dutch – which has given the Caribbean island a diverse history....

Read Now
post thumbnail for The App That Recreates Social Media’s Dopamine Hits Without Actually Letting You Post Anything

10 2024 April

The App That Recreates Social Media’s Dopamine Hits Without Actually Letting You Post Anything

One of the irresistible allures of social media has always been the dopamine hit from people engaging with the things that you post. Getting likes feels good....

Read Now
post thumbnail for AXA’s New Foresight Report Offers 100 Reasons to Love the Future

09 2024 April

AXA’s New Foresight Report Offers 100 Reasons to Love the Future

There are plenty of futurists who will offer you a list of all the ways the world can go wrong, and things could be worse....

Read Now
post thumbnail for Harper Collins Identifies Eco-Friendly Fonts to Save Thousands of Trees and Reduce Paper Usage

08 2024 April

Harper Collins Identifies Eco-Friendly Fonts to Save Thousands of Trees and Reduce Paper Usage

Every few months there are new sustainability stories of the world’s largest brands trying to create less wasteful packaging. Coca-Cola announced a new lighter bottle design this...

Read Now
post thumbnail for What The “Bridesmaid Burnout” Tells Us About the Future of Friendship

03 2024 April

What The “Bridesmaid Burnout” Tells Us About the Future of Friendship

Back in early Fall of 2023, Glamour magazine launched a series of articles on the topic of “bridesmaid burnout.” Inspired by the spiraling demands of time, money...

Read Now
post thumbnail for Facebook Brought Back the “Poke” Button … Here’s Why So Many People Started Using It Again

22 2024 March

Facebook Brought Back the “Poke” Button … Here’s Why So Many People Started Using It Again

About a decade ago in a Facebook post, Mark Zuckerberg once wrote “we thought it would be fun to make a feature that has no...

Read Now

Be More Interesting. Join over 25,000 readers and subscribe now!

+
+