By Oliver Burkeman Aug. 6, 2021 11:12 am ET Certain forms of busyness can be delightful. Who wouldn’t want to live in Busytown, the setting of the iconic 1960s children’s books by the American illustr
1. Nothing wrecks your living room decor quite like a giant, rented hospital bed. The one my Dad laid in for a couple months in the fall of 1974 was an alarmingly stiff and sturdy affair, the frame of
We’ve all got inanimates we treasure. 007 and Q’s loot. Static Shock with the saucer. Kim Possible’s Kimmunicator. Let’s throw Squidward’s clarinet into the ring too (if his pineapple-dwelling neighbo
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Credit... Moonbug Entertainment The Great Read A Kid’s Show Juggernaut That Leaves Nothing to Chance Moonbug fine-tunes the world’s most popular video programs for the youngest of viewers. Parents alr
Transcript Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee In your latest book, Ways of Being , you explore the many types of intelligences that exist in the more-than-human worlds—intelligences that we need to learn from and i
Soon, you won’t need to write much anymore. Artificial Intelligence will do it for you. With all the free time we will have, we could try to rethink how we learn, work, and how we communicate. You’ve
Das Foto von Mustafa Bader – CC BY-SA 4.0, zeigt eine selbstorganisierte Bäckerei in Zaatari
Hier eine ewas ältere Geschichte, die ich gerade erst entdeckt habe – leider vermutlich heute aktueller denn je und sie handelt von Einhegungen von Commons, wie sie heute gang und gebe sind.
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Der Angriffskrieg in der Ukraine hat Deutschlands geliebtes Friedensmantra zerschmettert. Die Zeitenwende ist das Eingeständnis des Versagens auch jener Friedenspolitik, wie sie in Deutschland von vie
Returning to craft How returning to the craft taught me to be a better leader Illustrations from the book " Focus " by Evan M. Cohen I recently made a few "fresh starts" in my life ; moving countries
An old warehouse in the trendy part of town. Swipe-card access restricted to designers only. Translucent walls covered with sticky notes. A ludicrously expensive coffee machine. These are just some of
(I wrote this for the OfferZen Blog – because the issue had been bugging me after some conversations with designer friends. It contains ideas I’ve learned at OfferZen, I guess – an organisation where
Andrew Reiner teaches men’s studies, cultural studies and writing at Towson University in Maryland, where he offers the seminar ‘The Changing Face of Masculinity’. He is the author of Better Boys, Bet
Ein Mann ermordet seine Familie. Er erschießt seine drei Kinder, zehn, acht und vier Jahre alt. Und seine Frau. Schließlich tötet er sich selbst. Der Abschiedsbrief des Mannes deutet darauf hin , dass
When it comes to creating great experiences, company culture is key Published in Prototypr · 7 min read · Jan 22, 2019 -- Illustration: venimo/Getty Images In the sprawling suburbs of Chicago, there e
Illustration by Raul Gil for this article. Nobody warned me how challenging being the Head of Design at an early-stage startup would be. Then again, nobody warned me how much I would love the challeng
OK. I’ll do this for another year. TBM 2021. 52 posts this year. I have 2020 up here, and an ebook version for sale (or you can make your own). How many roadmaps are the result of rushed, big-batch pl
Guest Essay Lebanon as We Once Knew It Is Gone Sept. 3, 2021 Electricity is a luxury many in Lebanon can’t afford. Credit... Bryan Denton for The New York Times By Ms. Mounzer is a Lebanese writer and
Sendungshinweis „Help“, das Ö1-Konsumentenmagazin, jeden Samstag um 11.40 Uhr in Radio Ö1 . Auch als Podcast. Das vorige Jahr war in Österreich zu warm, zu trocken und zu stürmisch. Im Frühjahr gab es
Environment By Jeremy Lent , originally published by Resilience.org July 6, 2021 The somber truth is that the vast bulk of nature’s staggering abundance has already disappeared. We live in a world cha
As a new, saner administration sets up shop in Washington, D.C., there are plenty of policy initiatives this country desperately needs. Beyond a national plan for the COVID-19 pandemic, progressives w
When the country went into lockdown last year and the schools closed, I made a parenting decision. I overturned my previous objections and ordered the kids a trampoline. It has been the source of more
Juliane Diller recently retired as deputy director of the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich. “The next thing I knew, I was no longer inside the cabin,” she recalled. “I hadn’t left the pl
Credit... Illustration by James Graham The Work Issue What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team New research reveals surprising truths about why some work groups thrive and others f
There’s a good chance most of the problems in your life and work come down to insufficient slack. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it. Imagine if you, as a budding productivity enthusia
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We continuously adapt our space to the needs of our team, and to the ever-changing reality around us. With the ‘new normal’ and a new focus, we have set out to update our Copenhagen HQ to better reflect how we now work — guided by the wish to inspire, empower, and safeguard…
When I finally puked on the fourth night, I felt an odd sense of pride. Inside the loud, stuffy ceremony room, people were laughing, crying, chanting, gyrating, and, yes, vomiting, around me. When my
Ma-Lin, Scholar Reclining and Watching Rising Clouds, Poem by Wang Wei , 1225–75. The Cleveland Museum of Art A Ghost’s Life by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Writer Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi teacher who
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The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980 , before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, in the Bla
Meet the blands... Clockwise from top left: Quip (@quip); Clare (@clarepaints); Tend (@hello_tend); Jot (@jot); Public Goods (@publicgoods); Hims (@hims) via Instagram By September 7, 2020, 12:00 PM U
The honeymoon for Extinction Rebellion , the hugely influential climate activist group, ended on Oct. 17, 2019. From its launch, a year earlier, until that day, it seemed like the group might have cra
Bill Atkinson worked mostly at home, but whenever he made significant progress he rushed in to Apple to show it off to anyone who would appreciate it. This time, he visited the Macintosh offices at Te
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Technology and Web Trends On Monopolies, Apple, and Epic Google has built a complete monopoly on search. Amazon uses the sales data of its resellers to continuously expand and solidify market dominanc
Alienated Rafia Zakaria , July 17, 2020 Tourist Detraction The tourism industry is closed; let’s keep it that way Lauchlin Wilkinson C o l u m n s “There is no room for tourists in a world of ‘displac
WWF recently released (June 5 th , 2020) a short video of British “national treasure” and conservation icon, Sir David Attenborough, telling us that “suddenly” saving the world is within reach. He say
Anders Levermann hat in einem Interview in der letzten Woche festgestellt (Levermann ) : Einen Systemwandel können Leute gern fordern, dafür gibt’s auch legitime Gründe, aber das Klimaproblem müssen w
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