Photo by Alvin Decena/Pexels . About 40,000 New Zealanders — or 1 in every 100 — are homeless. With winter fast approaching (winter starts in June in the Southern Hemisphere), working to combat homelessness is a high priority. The season can cast a frigid chill over the country, bringing…

Inboxes have been flooded lately with GDPR-related emails.Photograph: Alamy The vast majority of emails flooding inboxes across Europe from companies asking for consent to keep recipients on their mailing list are unnecessary and some may be illegal, privacy experts have said, as new rules over data…

SAN FRANCISCO — It took me a few months to accept that I had given myself tendinosis in my phone thumb. It is a depressingly modern condition in which the tendons around the thumb inflame as a result of repetitive strain — in my case because I had, for hours a day over years of a life, tapped that…

If all goes according to plan, in April of next year, thousands of people will receive a package containing a device called the Light Phone 2. The project was funded on Indiegogo, and many Light Phone customers will have been waiting for an entire year by then. It’s the second iteration of the…

Charlotte Gomez for BuzzFeed Hey guys, Nina here. I enjoy fashion, but I'm no style queen. When I find something I like and it looks good on me, I stick to it. FOREVER. My daily look is usually a crop top, skirt, gold jewelry, curls, and a jacket. Macey J. Foronda for BuzzFeed I want to diversify my…

Credit Mark Sommerfeld for The New York Times By TORONTO — Jordan Peterson fills huge lecture halls and tells his audiences there’s no shame in looking backward to a model of how the world should be arranged. Look back to the 1950s, he says — and back even further. He tells his audiences that they…

Our first date almost didn’t result in a second date. When Adam opened the door, Allison couldn’t figure out why he was dressed like a teenager on his way to the gym. Then she found out he did magic tricks. Strike two. In any relationship, there are deal-breakers. Smoking. Doing Crossfit. Chewing…

VULFPECK /// Grandma buy on bandcamp → http://vuuulf.com/bandcamp play on spotify → http://vuuulf.com/spotify Antwaun Stanley — vocals Joey Dosik — composer, wurlitzer Jack Stratton — a&r, mixing Theo Katzman — guitar Woody Goss — organ Joe Dart — fender bass James Gadson — drums David T. Walker —…

“You’ve got enough friends, a new one is bad for you,” says a petulant character named Max in “ Kicking and Screaming ,” Noah Baumbach’s 1995 cult movie, when a member of his post-collegiate quadrumvirate attempts to introduce a fifth guy. “You start spreading your affection around and it runs thin,…

Onstage at I/O 2018, Google showed off a jaw-dropping new capability of Google Assistant: in the not too distant future, it’s going to make phone calls on your behalf. CEO Sundar Pichai played back a phone call recording that he said was placed by the Assistant to a hair salon. The voice sounded…

Photograph courtesy of Black Car News Above: Doug Schifter with his car. On a Monday morning in early February, Neil Weiss sat at his kitchen table in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, nursing a cup of coffee while checking messages on his iPad. A text had arrived at 5:25 a.m. “Making it count.” Weiss — the…

Questlove is the drummer and front man for the Roots—the Grammy-winning band you’ve seen on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He’s a producer of the Hamilton cast album and has produced for artists ranging from Jay-Z to Elvis Costello to Erykah Badu. He’s also the author of a new book,…

Grasse, France As the sun peaks over the French Riviera, a crew of flower pickers rush to meet the morning’s crop of jasmine at La Domaine de Manon . From August to October, during the hours of 6am to noon, seasonal workers harvest the extra-large jasminum grandiflorum blooms at the century-old,…

ONCE UPON A time, artists had jobs. And not “advising the Library of Congress on its newest Verdi acquisition” jobs, but job jobs, the kind you hear about in stump speeches. Think of T.S. Eliot, conjuring “The Waste Land” (1922) by night and overseeing foreign accounts at Lloyds Bank during the day,…

When we think of prejudice and discrimination, most of us tend to think of overt attacks, harassment, or discriminatory behaviour. Blatant examples of prejudice do still occur with depressing frequency, but for most members of stigmatised groups, it is not these experiences that shape their daily…

Studio Dumbar: Jeugdfonds Work / Graphic Design The legendary Rotterdam-based Studio Dumbar is known for some of the most iconic identities since its establishment in 1977. Its creative team has designed some of the Holland’s most recognisable visual identities, including rebrands for the Dutch…

In this post, I’ll share a framework we’ve developed at Coinbase that helps us make decisions more effectively. Our core values include Clear Communication and Efficient Execution. This framework is an example of how we operationalize those values. This framework can be used to decide: Whether to…

Slack's Vancouver office Slack Last week, Slack, the company whose popular, plaid-themed messaging app has simplified office communications and introduced the custom-fox emoji into our daily routines, quietly released its 2017 diversity report . Such reports, which list statistics such as the…

340 miles, day and night, starting in LA, crossing Death Valley and ending poolside on the Las Vegas Strip. See how 10 women came to together to tackle the grueling race known as The Speed Project. Special thanks to: Billy Yang Films: https://www.instagram.com/billyyangfi... The Speed Project:…

After six months of scientifically advanced training, three of the world’s most elite distance runners set out to break the two-hour marathon barrier. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About Breaking2: Three champion marathoners, Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya, Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia, and…

Electric buses were seen as a joke at an industry conference in Belgium seven years ago when the Chinese manufacturer BYD Co. showed an early model. “Everyone was laughing at BYD for making a toy,” recalled Isbrand Ho, the Shenzhen-based company’s managing director in Europe. “And look now. Everyone…

This Sunday is the Big Sur Marathon , which I signed up for with my husband and father last July and have been training for since … and I’m not doing it. I got my long run up to 17 miles, but then it all went south, with searing pain in my left iliotibial band and aches in both knees. I took two…

Early days … Noa Maxwell with his parents and brother Jo (bottom left) at the ashram in Poona, India, in 1978 before the sect moved to Oregon. When Noa Maxwell was four, his bohemian upper-middle-class parents, disillusioned with London, bought a farm in Herefordshire, where they began to live…

This piece was reported through The Marshall Project , a nonprofit news organization that covers the U.S. criminal-justice system. Three years ago, the young man who would later be known as John Doe 1 shuffled into the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia, Michigan. The town of 11,000…

T ina Washington can’t remember being told that white men lynched her granddaddy back in 1935. Somehow she’s always known. The crime echoed in her father’s character, in his watchfulness and distant love, in the yawning void left in place of memory. As a child, she tried to pry answers from her…

Word spread fast through the county that fall. Comments streamed across Facebook and in the halls of the high school and through the pews of churches: There was a gay-straight alliance starting up at Alexander Central High. It would be known as the P.R.I.D.E. Club: People Respecting Individuality,…

Back in the 1970s , the average American was exposed to between 500 and 1,300 ads per day. But today, that number is probably closer to 5,000 . That’s a lot of ads, and it’s up to designers to help products stand out in this ever-intensifying attention economy. That’s no small task. But George Lois…

Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo I am standing in the basement of a restaurant, feeling the fear. Before me are two doors, marked with logos. One is a circle with a crossed line pointing down; the other, a circle with an arrow pointing off to the right. Of course, I should be able to tell which is…

I knew I was in trouble as soon as I pulled into the parking lot of the Quality Inn in Americus, Ga., last Saturday night. It was long past dark but I could see well enough to note the out-of-state license plates — New Mexico, Pennsylvania, California, Alaska — places far from this peanut-farming…

Courtesy of Bird Rides Inc. On Friday afternoon, Sierra was leaving her office in San Francisco’s Embarcadero when she almost tripped over a black electric scooter lying directly in her path. “Literally parked at the end of our damn staircase when I turned the corner,” she told me. “Jackass.” In…

Over a quarter of a million swimmers now visit London Fields Lido annually.Photograph: Alamy O ne summer day in 2003, the local residents of Hackney , north-east London, were invited on a tour of the abandoned site of London Fields Lido. Although closed since 1988, the pool was not empty. Squatters…

Alamy John Corcoran grew up in New Mexico in the US during the 1940s and 50s. One of six siblings, he graduated from high school, went on to university, and became a teacher in the 1960s - a job he held for 17 years. But, as he explains here, he hid an extraordinary secret. When I was a child I was…

THE ART OF SCREEN TIME How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life By Anya Kamenetz 266 pp. PublicAffairs. $27. BE THE PARENT, PLEASE Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat By Naomi Schaefer Riley 251 pp. Templeton Press. $24.95. There’s one in every neighborhood: a parent who…

‘Hairy… a road less travelled for women, somewhat out of the ordinary’ Written and narrated by the poet Anam Cara, A Prickly Subject tackles – in verse – the cultural double standards around female body hair. A collaboration with the UK filmmaker Helen Plumb as part of The Art of Change series at…

Party on … Andrew WK at O2 Forum Kentish Town, London.Photograph: Burak Cingi/Redferns T he chants of “Party! Party!” are loud enough they must be audible from miles away. It is easy to imagine that Andrew WK’s own heartbeat pulses to their rhythm, so wedded does he seem to partying, and to the…

Mark Calaway spent the summer of 1990 losing wrestling matches. He suffered defeat all across the country during World Championship Wrestling’s Great American Bash tour, falling to Paul Orndorff in Oklahoma City and in Atlanta to Tommy Rich. Lex Luger pinned him in Baltimore. Brian Pillman got him…