If you’ve struggled to work from home for this past year, now is the time to start settling into it, so you can feel good and productive in your new work environment.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareKatrina Lake is passing the reins to Elizabeth Spaulding. We talk with them about the past and future of Stitch Fix.
For a decade, Katrina Lake has been one of the most celebrated tech CEOs in the country.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
With every sale of its retro-chic clothing and home goods, Parks Project donates to a park in need.
Since its founding in 2014, the California-based apparel brand Parks Project has put its weight behind championing America’s best idea: our national parks.
The Kaji family is navigating the increasingly complicated world of kidfluencers by expanding beyond YouTube.
In 2015, when Ryan Kaji was three years old, he asked his parents why he wasn’t on YouTube like the other kids he was watching.Read Full Story
The developers commissioned an unprecedented model to see how storms and rising seawater would impact the 161-acre site.
When developers at HYM Investment Group started planning a major urban redevelopment at the former Suffolk Downs racetrack near Boston Harbor, they knew they had to plan around water.
Turning to management techniques will help perfectionists use their high-achieving tendencies in a healthy manner.
Perfectionists are known for making impressive strides. These high-achievers are often some of our most well known popular culture figures.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
CEO Sasan Goordarzi and the company’s first director of racial equity, La Toya Haynes, discuss initiatives to increase diversity and inclusion.
In August of last year, technology company Intuit appointed its first racial equity director, La Toya Haynes.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The smallest Polaroid ever made is ready to party when the world reopens.
We haven’t had a lot of occasions to take photos in the last year (your sourdough loaf excluded).More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The temperatures high in the atmosphere change the physics of carbon removal. Can these balloons make it cost-effective?
On April 16, a team of engineers in Germany launched a balloon in the air and watched as it ascended.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Found in Translation shows how 24 languages connect.
If you’ve ever traveled to a foreign country and you didn’t speak the language, you probably had your share of conversations that got lost in translation.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Avoiding a sophomore slump was the least of concerns for show creator Robin Thede.
When HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show premiered in 2019, it broke new ground in comedy as the first sketch series to have an all-Black-women-led cast—not to mention all Black women in the writers’ room as well.
Nextdoor has become a source for community discussions and local announcements, but not everyone in a neighborhood has access to the platform.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIf we can’t ditch plastic, we can at least make it more recyclable—at least that’s what researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Department of Energy are proposing with a new material called PDK.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The latest round of stimulus check payments has gone out—and it includes 1.1 million paper checks
It’s been six weeks since the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began sending out the third round of Economic Impact Payments to Americans trying to navigate the financial implications of the global COVID-19 pandemic.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
You’re wearing them wrong.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFor people looking to change their planet-damaging habits, Earth Day is a great time to start. More than 1 billion people mark April 22 as a day of action.
This year’s Earth Day celebration is special because residents of the planet have seen firsthand what a difference a change in their actions can make.Read Full Story
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More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA new study of 2,800 employers highlights the biggest mistakes that applicants make.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe goal is in line with what climate scientists say is necessary to avoid the worst impacts from climate change.
The U.S. now aims to cut annual greenhouse gas emissions in half—between 50% and 52% lower than 2005 levels—by the end of the decade.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
For times when you’re short on inspirtion, here are few ways to reframe your thoughts and break through to better ideas.
More | Talk | Read It Later | SharePsychotherapist Farah Harris says for Black people and other racially marginalized individuals, racism is the allergen, and it is always allergy season.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIf you’re feeling anxiety about how your search is going—or how long it’s taking—these techniques can help you feel more in control.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDespite 10 Oscar nominations and critical praise, Netflix’s ‘Mank’ has become a target of scorn. Why it’s a different—and better—movie than you think.
In the most reductive terms, movies follow heroes as they square off against villains.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Professor Allissa V. Richardson explains why media companies should stop sharing videos depicting graphic violence against Black Americans.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareMasks were a gateway drug for the e-commerce platform in 2020. Many buyers came back for non-mask purchases later.
Etsy more than doubled its revenue last year, in what its CEO called “a transformative year.” What, you ask, did everyone buy on Etsy?Read Full Story
Popular ideas include a ‘terror’ of black holes and a ‘silence’ of black holes.
Earlier this year, astronomers went hunting for a supermassive black hole somewhere by the constellation Ara, nearly 8,000 light-years from Earth.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
During a Senate hearing this week, lawmakers and app developers leveled some weighty criticisms against Apple for the way it runs the App Store.
Apple and Google testified in front of the Senate Judiciary’s Antitrust Subcommittee Wednesday, and it’s fair to say the committee members came with their A-game and that Apple walked away the biggest loser.
Releasing hits like ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ for free on the service the same day the film landed in theaters has paid off.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareUniqlo—part of the world’s most valuable clothing company—has lagged behind its peers in sustainability efforts.
Creating a stonewashed or distressed look on a single pair of jeans requires 15 gallons of water.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
In New York City, Joco’s e-bikes will be kept out of the way, in stations on private properties such as the garages of apartment buildings, hotels, and offices.
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