Urban theorist Richard Florida seems to have realized he was wrong about the broad benefits of attracting creatives to depressed cities.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
Why Don’t You Just Get One of Those Creative Jobs?
At The Paris Review, writer and creative director Glenn O’Brien narrates the comic struggle of artists who decide to go into advertising.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature
A Nuclear Bomb at Ground Zero, and What Happens Next
At the Atlantic, two researchers discuss their study of how humans might respond after a nuclear attack on Manhattan.
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Buck to the Future: Why the High-Tech Ideas of Buckminster Fuller Are Back In Vogue
He’s a forgotten hippie idol, a sage of 1960s counterculture. What can we learn from Bucky Fuller’s faith in technology?
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, History, Nonfiction, Quotes
‘London Was, But Is No More’
A loving, fascinating, melancholy, rollicking look at how technology and globalization are transforming urban spaces.
Posted inNonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Wheel, the Woman, and the Human Body
How the newly evolved bicycle helped liberate women and modernize America’s concept of fitness.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Mars Needs Women… Scientists
At the top of the SLS will be the Orion, the capsule designed to take astronauts—men and, yes, now women—as far as Mars (come the 2030s).
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The Early Principles That Guided the Makers of LEGO
In his book Brick by Brick, David Robertson outlines the early successes and failures of the Denmark-based LEGO Group.
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Every Mission is a Suicide Mission
Accompanying a contestant to a pro-level Galaga tournament to discover how many digital space bugs you have to destroy to find renown, community, and a modicum of inner peace.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
‘Why Pay for Therapy When the Advice of Strangers Has Proven to Be Helpful and Free?’
Ben Popper takes a look at Koko, a startup with an app that helps people connect and provide emotional support to peers and, in the process, allows them to recognize and “rethink” their own problems.
