Ross Martin, left, of Viacom's creative strategy unit, is working with General Motors to help revive interest in cars among young consumers. Mr. Martin and John McFarland of Chevrolet are shown in G.M.'s headquarters in Detroit. Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times DETROIT — Ross Martin, 37,…

For the last two months, you've seen some version of the same story all over the Internet: Delete your search history before Google's new privacy settings take effect. A straightforward piece outlining a rudimentary technique, but also evidence that the search titan has a serious trust problem on…

It's no surprise that mall staple clothing chain Anthropologie recruits college kids for menial tasks like hanging signs and shelving items, but now instead of paying minimum wage, they offer college credit for their Visual Display Internship. While on some holiday shopping last month, we came…

Gawker plans to launch an ambitious new commenting model within the next couple months, said its founder, Nick Denton, at SXSW today. The company aims to recruit commenters to elevate the level of discussion on its blogs by segmenting them and giving them moderation tools. So the first person to…

Jeff Mermelstein for The New York Times Looking more like a wayward preppy trying to get into the Harvard Club without a tie than a legendary indie filmmaker mounting a comeback, Whit Stillman limped up to a RED digital camera and peered at a set dressed to resemble a girl’s dorm at a coed liberal…

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What is your idea of perfect happiness? Loud bar, good band, cold beer, ride home. What is your greatest fear? Becoming dickish. Which living person do you most admire? Paul Farmer. What is your favorite journey? The J-Church Muni line up to the top corner of Dolores Park, at 20th and Church, in San…

Blaine Harden’s astonishing account of the life of Shin In Geun — a man born into a North Korean prison camp, who has lived pretty much the worst life imaginable — has received significantly less attention than the fact that This American Life has retracted its story about working conditions at…

Productivity has surged, but income and wages have stagnated for most Americans. If the median household income had kept pace with the economy since 1970, it would now be nearly $92,000, not $50,000. You: doing more with less. Corporate profits: going strong. The dirty secret of the jobless…

Mar 16, 2012 We've discovered that one of our most popular episodes contained numerous fabrications. This week, we detail the errors in Mike Daisey's story about visiting Foxconn , which makes iPads and other products for Apple in China. Marketplace's China correspondent Rob Schmitz discovered the…

Matt Taibbi, who used the phrase "vampire squid" when referring to Goldman Sachs in a 2009 Rolling Stone article, was not proud of his creation in an interview with Dealbook's Kevin Roose . "I’m getting a little worried that I’m going to have a squid on my gravestone," he said. "It’s clearly getting…

Share Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Follow Futurity RSS Twitter Facebook Newsletter U. ROCHESTER (US) — The difficulties that many women describe as memory problems when menopause approaches are real, not imagined. The findings, reported…

Share Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Follow Futurity RSS Twitter Facebook Newsletter U. MELBOURNE (AUS) — Ritalin increases people’s ability to recognize their mistakes, which could treat loss of insight linked to Alzheimer’s and…

Sad news out of Maryland, and a reminder of how devastating MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus , can be when it combines with flu infection. According to the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene , the Washington Post and ProMED , five members of a family have fallen ill…

Editor’s Note : Maria Popova is the editor of Brain Pickings , a curation of “cross-disciplinary interestingness” that scours the world of the web and beyond for share-worthy tidbits. Here, she considers how new approaches to curation are changing the way we consume and share information. Last week,…

Billions are flowing to founders of tech companies, and the tech companies themselves. The companies will all need exclusive digital content. News stories. The kind of stuff produced by news organizations. Like the NYT. If Twitter, for example, offered exclusive access to NYT stories, if you had to…

AUSTIN, Tex. As words and articles became digitized over the last 15 years, they began to float, there for the plucking and replication elsewhere. Words like “curation” and “aggregation” became the language of the realm, sometimes used as substitutes for describing the actual creation of content.…

An adolescent boy's bed sheet semen's worth of ink has been spilled lately about men acting too much like boys. But the trend of reverse-striving has crossed over: adult women are acting more and more like little girls, and it's really starting to get on my nerves. There's so much ukulele playing…

DB Apple/DPA/Corbis When innovation left smiles: Steve Wozniak, left, and Steven P. Jobs, the co-founders of Apple, in 1978. SAN FRANCISCO –I wouldn’t describe the car industry as fun. The airline industry isn’t fun either. Phone companies are far from fun. Yet these industries all started out fun.…

A Retina Display Reckoning for Magazine Publishers Brad Frost recently noted the impending arrival of the iPad Retina display could “ wreak havoc on the Web ,” owing to mammoth image file sizes. Hopefully, with a little resourcefulness and education, the Web design and development community’s innate…

HEY you all bagel scoopers! Oh, god, “scoopers,” that’s, that’s a word you don’t realize how unattractive it is until you type it out. Anyway, don’t think that’s going to help you, you, I know you. I see you, sometimes, every day, or just sometimes, by America’s toasters, bagels clutched,…

I was chatting with a friend the other day about Readability’s model. The question that he asked was (paraphrasing): “So after 12 months, what happens to the money that is unclaimed?” You see “premium” members pay a monthly fee (that they choose, mostly) and 70% of that fee is evenly distributed out…

Blog empire Gawker Media, like its magazine counterparts Conde Nast and Hearst, asks readers to sort themselves by advertising demographic. One might be interested in sports, and read Deadspin. One might be interested in gadgets, and read Gizmodo. Or one might be interested in being a woman, and…

Text January 31, 2012 1,034 notes I found Molly Fischer’s essay about Jezebel, The Hairpin, xojane.com and Rookie interesting, provocative, and deeply frustrating. Her dissection of these blogs’ aesthetics and the rhetorical styles they’ve bred in their commenter-bases is skillful, but what is its…

An early editorial meeting at Beheld HQ. As a feminist who started my career at Ms. and wound my way through Glamour and Playboy before winding up at CosmoGIRL! —the exclamation point was part of the name—finding Jezebel shortly after its 2007 launch was delicious. I enjoyed it as a reader, and I…

Managers love to extol the virtues of a team mentality. I can’t count how many schlocky motivational posters I’ve seen emblazoned on middle management walls (or fabric-covered cubicle dividers, as the case may be) over the years, all claiming that teamwork is pretty much the solution to everything.…

March 2, 2012 So I finally figured how to write a successful blog post; disagree with Banksy. I’m also learning that there are a lot of hypocrites in the world that are extremely keen to lambast someone who admits working commercially. Being called a nazi by a commercials director for example. Some…