30 2025 October
Lessons From the Reinvention of Pittsburgh into an AI Robotics Hub
Pittsburgh was known for steel. Now the city has ambitions to become a hub for something else: AI and robotics. The pieces seem to be...
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The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Defy by Dr. Sunita Sah
I ask for my coffee extra hot. Sometimes, I do that, and it comes cold anyway. There would be times when that happened and I...
Read Now29 2024 November
Short Form Video Is Back and It Might Actually Have Been a Great Idea After All
Four years ago, with much fanfare (and budget), a platform called Quibi emerged with the promise that people would watch short vertical episodic shows and...
Read Now26 2024 November
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Pretending You Care by Norm Feuti
As we head into a holiday season, the Black Friday deals are already getting published out there and you might be thinking about heading out...
Read Now01 2024 October
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: “Dead Wrong” by Dr. Geeta Nayyar
For every new video we see on social media about a miracle remedy, there’s a medical professional who is generally suffering in silence watching the...
Read Now30 2024 September
Human Eyeballs, Fake Tongues and Freeze-Dried Butterflies: Inside the World’s Most Discomforting Restaurant
Alchemist restaurant in Copenhagen is the creation of famous Danish chef Rasmus Munk. Like many similarly exclusive Michelin-star worthy dining experiences, there’s a 10,000-person waiting...
Read Now06 2024 September
Save the World. Eat More Lionfish and Green Crabs.
Lobster is considered a luxury food today, with high prices to prove it, but it wasn’t always this way. Lobster was once cheap and plentiful, and...
Read Now08 2024 August
Four Entirely Predictable Olympic Stories That Happen Every Time
Anyone who follows the Olympics knows there are some media narratives that happen every four years and always turn out the same. There are myths and then...
Read Now25 2024 July
This Journalist Tried to Make a New Friend in 30 Days and It Went … Badly
What if you set out to make a new friend and gave yourself 30 days to make it happen? That’s the intriguing challenge that forms...
Read Now16 2024 July
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Awoken by Katelyn Monroe Howes & The Sleepless by Victor Manibo
It’s the summer and when it comes to reading, for many people that means reading fiction … so this week I’m shifting my book recommendations...
Read Now09 2024 July
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: A Man of the World: My Life at National Geographic by Gilbert M. Grosvenor
The birthday of a nation is a perfect moment to celebrate heroes and the American hero I pick to honor on this 4th of July...
Read Now04 2024 July
Neuralink May Create a Generation of Gamers with Superhuman Reflexes
Earlier this year Noland Arbaugh became the first patient to receive a brain-computer chip implanted by Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink after a diving accident left him paralyzed....
Read Now03 2024 July
Want To Understand How AI Could Transform Our World? Read More Philosophy.
AI-induced angst seems to be on everyone’s mind. Just this week I was invited to an hour-long virtual session with a group of brand experts...
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