View OriginalHow Mushroom Cultivation Is Changing the Fortunes of Women in Rural IndiaJayashiree worked with this community as a part of the India Fellow programme, which is an 18-month experiential journey that helps young leaders understand social issues and bring change.
View OriginalLisa Frank, My Little Pony, Caboodles. The ‘90s Called, and They’re Coming for Your KidsThe brands that millennials loved as children or young adults are now banking on their old customers wanting to relive their childhoods.
View OriginalHow Your Tips Made Instacart an $8 Billion CompanyNow that it’s gone public, here’s how the platform’s shoppers feel about that.
View OriginalHollywood Strikes Send a Chill Through Britain’s Film IndustryWhat do “Barbie,” “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning” and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” have in common? Besides being the summer’s big-budget movies, they were made in Britain, filmed in part at some of the country’s most esteemed studios.
View OriginalConfessions of a Journalist Turned Weed SmugglerIt’s a little after midnight on a cold winter night. I’m in someone else’s van, driving down a highway I’ve never seen before. I’m on my way to pick up a load of marijuana and transport it across state lines. What could go wrong?
View OriginalThat “free” iPhone 15 could cost a fortuneHow to buy a new phone for less without paying more.
View OriginalWhat I Saw While Working at Ibram Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research at Boston UniversityI wasn’t even looking to work at the Center for Antiracist Research. I was a junior faculty member at Boston University with a modest public profile, so didn’t expect an invitation to the party. Dr. Ibram X. Kendi was an academic rockstar, after all.
View OriginalInside the Subreddit for Guys Desperate to Enlarge Their PenisesIt’s just after lunch on Wednesday afternoon, and it’s time for your first spring compression session of the day. You take your plastic vacuum cup and place it around the end of your penis. You hook the ring at the end of the cup to a metal frame that’s pressed against your pelvis.
View OriginalWhat Zoom learned from bringing employees back to the officeEven with the COVID-19 resurgence, most companies are initiating return-to-work policies. According to a recent study by workplace design and strategy firm Unispace, 72% of employers are mandating some form of in-person work.
View OriginalThe 16 Most Interesting Things Amazon Announced TodayEvery fall, Amazon holds a “Devices and Services” media event where it unleashes a flood of new gadgets and software into the world. At the 2022 edition, Amazon announced a Kindle with a stylus, a robot dog, and a refreshed line of Echoes and Eeros, among other smart home gadgets.
View OriginalThe Real Estate Hustle-Culture Con That’s Exploiting Investors and Wrecking the Housing Market“It’s a wake-up call to the middle class,” a booming voice assures listeners during the intro to Grant Cardone’s weekly podcast, This Is Not Your Daddy’s Economy.
View OriginalAnthropologie Employees on What to Buy (and What to Skip)As a former Anthropologie employee who spent a year on the sales floor — first as an associate, then as a manager-in-training — I know firsthand that the shops are designed to read like high-end department stores.
View OriginalWelcome to the “You Do You” PandemicThe new Covid policy: Let them eat cake. Several weeks ago, two op-eds appeared in The Boston Globe—one by President Biden’s former Covid czar, Ashish Jha, and the other by Jerome Adams, President Trump’s surgeon general. The occasion was the clear increase in Covid-19 cases this summer.
View OriginalThey Were Promised Help With Mortgage Payments. Then They Got a Foreclosure Notice.ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week.
View OriginalAcademia’s Missing MenMen are disappearing from science and academia. The public perception is, however, exactly the opposite. The voyage of discovery that science offers can take us furthest when it is open to the best and brightest, regardless of who they are and where they come from.