Tag: covid-19

• The Future of Hotel Design

  October 18, 2020

  Mobile guest rooms, enhanced contactless room controls, robotic servers and pop-up dining areas are just a few of the ideas hotel designers are considering for the post-Covid travel world. Whether… more ›

• Inside Kelly Brogan’s Covid-Denying, Vax-Resistant Conspiracy Machine

  October 4, 2020

  On April 27, “holistic psychiatrist” Kelly Brogan, MD, a former Goop contributor whose latest book was blurbed by Marianne Williamson, sat in front of a webcam at the right hand… more ›

• COVID‐19 Pandemic Imperils Weather Forecast

  September 20, 2020

  Weather forecasts play essential parts in economic activity. Assimilation of meteorological observations from aircraft improves forecasts greatly. However, global lockdown during the COVID‐19 pandemic (March to May 2020) has eliminated… more ›

• Research Reveals Inherent AI Gender Bias

  August 16, 2020

  Unless you’ve been living under a rock—an impossibly cozy, privileged, particle-filtering rock—2020 has probably opened your eyes to how far we still have to go to achieve a truly fair… more ›

• The Mask Slackers of 1918

  August 3, 2020

  As the influenza pandemic swept across the United States in 1918 and 1919, masks took a role in political and cultural wars. The masks were called muzzles, germ shields and… more ›

• Google Founder Sergey Brin Has a Secret Disaster Relief Squad

  June 22, 2020

  When Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas last September, the small island of Abaco was among the hardest hit. Dorian stalled over the island for two days, unleashing some of the… more ›

• Nigeria’s immediate future looks bleak without oil revenue—it doesn’t have to be that way

  May 17, 2020

  Globalization, automation, and inequality. That prediction, made by the World Bank in 2017, and based on decades of Nigeria’s dependence on oil, has proven astute. Amid a crippling coronavirus pandemic,… more ›

• How the super-rich spent lockdown

  May 15, 2020

  As the UK headed for lockdown, reports flew in of wealthy homeowners rushing to the countryside, to their yachts or to private jets out of the country. But where were… more ›

• A luxury leather company is using a post-apocalypse art thesis to survive the pandemic

  May 9, 2020

  New technology is upending everything in finance. There’s not a lot of demand for luxury leather bags during a pandemic. https://qz.com/1851931/lutoff-leathers-pivot-shows-how-businesses-can-survive-covid-19/ more ›

• COVID-19: 5 new human truths that experiences need to address

  May 5, 2020

  COVID-19 is the biggest global event—and challenge—of our lifetimes. As such, it is changing human attitudes and behaviors today and forcing organizations to respond. However, the need to respond won’t… more ›