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Especially this past year, the idea of “ voting with your wallet ” has taken on a certain cache as consumers have looked to connect their spending habits with their larger ethical stance. The #GrabYourWallet movement, for instance, took President Trump’s lewd comments as a springboard to encourage…
On June 16th, 2015, a new division within Japanese publishing giant Square Enix posted a short, handwritten message online. “The ‘good old days’ are coming back,” it read. “To every RPG fan in the world… this is for you.” Square Enix made its name in the ‘80s and ‘90s with classic JRPGs like Chrono…
Image: Dan Bell J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are iconic fantasy adventures, and readers return to them time and again because of the rich detail that defines the world. Tolkien’s prose is aided by his beautiful maps of Middle-earth, which comes with simplified, beautiful…
In March 2017 , the New York City–based editors and writers of The Atlantic moved to a WeWork office in Brooklyn. I remember our first morning vividly: It was like entering the Millennial id. Craft beer and cucumber water poured from kitchen taps. Laptoppers in jeans and toques clacked along to MGMT…
Image: Papier Machine An interactive booklet called Papier Machine is making beautiful STEM toys that are actually fun and accessible, by combining paper with electronic circuitry. The booklet contains pages silkscreened with conductive silver ink that can be assembled to create six electronic paper…
Daniel Linssen It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column Short Play , we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend. Every four months there is an event called Ludum Dare , where…
Stone tools recovered at the Attirampakkam site in India. Photo: Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, India A new discovery of stone tools from about 385,000 years ago has anthropologists rethinking the history of technology. The stone tools, found at a site in southern India, were sophisticated…
Remember that old saying — “You can’t judge a book by its cover”? Well, it’s just not true. You can judge a book by its cover, and you should. To get to the heart of why design plays such a big role in an author’s success, I invited the Chief Marketing Officer of 99designs, Pamela Webber, to join…
Photo by Dan Tuffs/Getty Images Getty Images Ursula K. Le Guin, the renowned author of the Earthsea series, has died at the age of 88 . Her more than 20 novels and more than 100 works of short fiction, which won numerous Locus, Hugo, and Nebula awards, expanded the way many people thought about the…
The Women’s Marches that took place in cities across the world on Saturday dominated almost every social media platform, but one platform in particular stood out: Instagram. The photo-heavy social media site accounted for 47% of the hashtag mentions related to the marches —far higher than any other…
You’ve heard the adage “It’s all 1s and 0s”, but that’s not a figure of speech: the transistor, the fundamental building block of computers, is simply a switch that is either on (“1”) or off (“0”). It turns out, though, as Chris Dixon chronicled in a wonderful essay entitled How
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the guest-editor of our Volume IV issue, on newsstands nationally December 5. She will keynote at the first-ever Teen Vogue Summit in conversation with actress, scholar, and activist Yara Shahidi. The Teen Vogue Summit will take place on December 1 & 2 in Los Angeles.…
Hillary Clinton, the first woman who had a real shot at the presidency, has finally set off a national awakening among women. The only catch? She did it by losing. In the year since a stoic Mrs. Clinton watched as Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th president, a fervor has swept the country,…
In 1987, Debra Di Maio, the executive producer of Oprah Winfrey’s newly nationally syndicated daytime talk show, went to Forsyth County, Georgia, to scout locations for an episode about local racism and civil rights. On “Making Oprah,” an excellent three-episode podcast from WBEZ Chicago, Di Maio…
How the Woman’s March Ignited From A Single Spark In Hana We asked 30 people that we admire to each interview one person they admire. That’s the concept behind the interview Issue presented by Design Within Reach. Shep Gordon chose wisely. Shep Gordon: I came across your story early on. What really…
“No woman should say, ‘I am but a woman!’ But a woman! What more can you ask to be?” pioneering 19th-century astronomer Maria Mitchell told her students as she paved the way for women in science . And yet a century later, Brenda Berkman found embers of that but-a-woman cavil smoldering in the…
In looking back on the past year, I keep returning to The Universe in Verse as a singular highlight — that labor-of-love celebration of the common ground between poetry and science, standing as a contemporary testament to Wordsworth’s insistence that “poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all…
These days, Internet in general, and specifically social media, is taking a lashing worse than an offender in a boarding school. Thanks to the free for all nature of the social web, anyone can say, do, or fabricate anything and get away it. You don’t even need to have a hand on the nuclear button. A…
Advertisement Magazine In a series of studies published in 2012, two psychologists, Ara Norenzayan and Will Gervais, set out to test a simple question: When people think about God, do they feel or act as if they are being monitored? Subjects of varying religiosity were primed to think about God,…
There are many creative tools a designer uses to think differently, but none is more counter-intuitive than “wrong thinking,” also called reverse thinking. Wrong thinking is when you intentionally think of the worst idea possible — the exact opposite of the accepted or logical solution, ideas that…
October 21, 2013 Back by popular demand--the four Rubin Tendencies (I keep changing the name of this framework. Any suggestions or comments welcome. Do you like the Rubin Character Index Better?) It's very important to know ourselves, but self-knowledge is challenging. I'm like a Muggle Sorting Hat!…
This year I’m going to challenge myself to go deeper by using constraints, inspired by my friend David Cain’s idea of a Depth Year . What’s a Depth Year? As David writes: No new hobbies, equipment, games, or books are allowed during this year. Instead, you have to find the value in what you already…
A wooden home made from 60 locally sourced trees, featured in " Hide and Seek ," one of a slew of recent photo books devoted to chic cabins. Adolf Bereuter, Bernardo Bader Architects, from "Hide and Seek," Gestalten Publishers, 2014 According to legend, the humble dwellings are ideal launchpads for…
I’ve kept a notebook for 20 years, but the triumph of my year has been, for the first time, keeping not just a logbook , but a daily diary. ( This is what it looks like .) I keep looking at the stack and thinking, “Okay, but where’s the book ?” Almost every writer will tell you how important it is…
A Manifesto Author Mary Beard Publisher Liveright Copyright 2017 Buy this book Amazon This brief and self-proclaimed manifesto contains two essays: the first, on the voice of women, and the second, on women and power. Beard looks to the classics, locating an early example of a man telling a woman to…
You Know Who Rules? is Broadly's December interview series highlighting women and non-binary people who accomplished incredible things during the dumpster fire of a year that was 2017. Aram Han Sifuentes is a Chicago-based artist, writer, and curator who started making protest banners soon after the…
Advertisement Style Readers of Modern Love may want a good story, but they’re also hungry for advice that can help them navigate the baffling world of relationships. Every year, our most popular essays offer lessons on how to find love or keep it — tips, rules and surprising strategies. This year’s…
You’d have probably seen that YouTube’s own Logan Paul, sibling of #8 on the Thirst List Jake Paul, filmed a dead body in the Japanese suicide forest and put it online. It was a whole thing—and a deeply unfortunate first entertainment-related story of 2018. But let’s not allow the very recent past…
Wasn't 2017 magical for bringing leadership issues into focus? Headlines just hummed with different views of how great leaders should act. 2017's list of Inspiring Women to Watch gave us some surprises, including the first unicorn truly worthy of the name--Gingko Bioworks--because co-founder Reshma…
Advertisement Style Here’s what we’ve learned about living your best life in 2018, using lessons from some of our most-read Styles stories of 2017. We encourage you to be a better prepared, less anxious and more showered person in the new year. (And if you need more help after this, check out our…
On this week’s podcast, the actress Kristin Scott Thomas tells the story of a couple that falls out of — and back into — conversation. The essay, “ How the Dining Dead Got Talking Again ,” was written by Molly Pascal and published in Modern Love last year. Brian Rea Ms. Pascal is a writer and a…
Life is Short January 2016 Life is short, as everyone knows. When I was a kid I used to wonderabout this. Is life actually short, or are we really complainingabout its finiteness? Would we be just as likely to feel life wasshort if we lived 10 times as long? Since there didn't seem any way to answer…
Now that it's almost winter, I'm reminded of just how hard it is to start the day in the dark and head home from the office in the dark. This is the time of year when my uniform becomes yoga pants and a flannel and I find myself neglecting my healthy rituals and opting for comfort food and sleep. By…
Your 9-Step Guide To Recharging This Holiday Season - MindBodyGreen https://www.mindbodygreen.com › ... Dec. 13, 2017 · Want to really recharge this holiday season? These nine tips from tech blogger Carley Knobloch will help you find peace among your notifications. Carley Knobloch on mindbodygreen…
@jessicahagy And worth living. Biographies, autobiographies, memoirs: they’re all windows into other people’s lives (though some windows are less clear than others). These books can help you read between the lines in real life. Highlights are only half the story. Listen for the narrative, not just…
On Tuesdays I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the archive ). This week’s question is from Mike: How can you tell a wise person when you meet one? If you can’t judge a book by its cover, how can you judge a person on their first impression? I’ve never liked the cliche about “you…
Next year is almost here. And doing what you did this year probably isn’t going to be sufficient. That’s because you have more to contribute than you did this year. You have important work worth sharing. To reach your goals, you’ll probably need more effective and powerful ways to tell your story,…
“Mathematical Science,” wrote Ada Lovelace in contemplating the nature of the imagination , “is the language of the unseen relations between things.” Few have mastered that language and transmuted it into Lovelace’s “poetical science” more deftly than the trailblazing English mathematician John…