Tag: culture

• “Ain’t got a care in the world / but got plenty of beer / ain’t got no money in my pocket / but I’m already here”

  January 4, 2019

  If you have a car, and that car contains some kind of media-playing device—like a CD player or whatever—then you probably prize that car as one of the few spaces… more ›

• Use the Web instead

  January 3, 2019

  Few things annoy me more than a random website asking me: “do you want to use the app instead?” Of course I don’t want to—that’s why I use your website. There are people… more ›

• Alice Mann I try to create work that challenges old stereotypes about life on the African continent

  December 18, 2018

  Alice Mann I try to create work that challenges old stereotypes about life on the African continent Created with Sketch. Remember your prom night? Us neither really. But while high… more ›

• Abundance has made fat an enemy, but it’s been a friend to humans for millennia

  December 16, 2018

  Abundance has made fat an enemy, but it’s been a friend to humans for millennia ORIGINAL What fat is for 4 minutes https://aeon.co/videos/abundance-has-made-fat-an-enemy-but-its-been-a-friend-to-humans-for-millennia more ›

• Porn sites collect more user data than Netflix or Hulu. This is what they do with it.

  December 15, 2018

  Porn sites collect more user data than Netflix or Hulu. This is what they do with it. The biggest and perhaps best source of data about what people like to… more ›

• The 50 Best Albums of 2018

  December 11, 2018

  The 50 Best Albums of 2018 In 2018, it felt hard to reach consensus on anything—including music. The heavy-hitters of pop and hip-hop returned, but many disappointed; in fact, sometimes,… more ›

• Fishing boats to small stores, Amazon will stop at nothing to win in India

  November 23, 2018

  Fishing boats to small stores, Amazon will stop at nothing to win in India Before any Amazon parcel arrives at Sahiba Ashraf’s creaky wooden balcony on Havelock Island, it undertakes… more ›

• Streaming Wars

  November 23, 2018

  Streaming Wars Quartz AfricaThe important stories of innovation across the continent’s wide-ranging economies https://qz.com/guide/streaming-wars/ more ›

• In the era of online shopping, the retail store is immersive theater

  November 19, 2018

  In the era of online shopping, the retail store is immersive theater Less than a mile apart, two extravagant new shopping destinations have opened in New York City. One, by… more ›

• Amazon has everything it needs to make massively popular algorithm-driven fiction

  November 17, 2018

  Amazon has everything it needs to make massively popular algorithm-driven fiction Amazon is the Voldemort of book events—”our friends in Seattle,” the ominous euphemism goes. The Seattle-based company is famous… more ›