Alienated Rafia Zakaria , July 17, 2020 Tourist Detraction The tourism industry is closed; let’s keep it that way Lauchlin Wilkinson Columns C o l u m n s “There is no room for tourists in a world of
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 says
Anders Levermann hat in einem Interview in der letzten Woche festgestellt (Levermann 2020):
Einen Systemwandel können Leute gern fordern, dafür gibt’s auch legitime Gründe, aber das Klimaproblem müssen wir innerhalb der nächsten 30 Jahre lösen. In nur drei Jahrzehnten müssen wir die komplette…
2016 hatte Erkurt unter dem Titel „Generation haram“ einen vielbeachteten Artikel für das Magazin „biber“ geschrieben. Darin ging es in erster Linie um muslimische Burschen, die Mädchen in den Schulen
Die ZEIT publizierte gestern einen offenen Brief von ungefähr 150 Autor*innen, der laut eigener Überschrift ein Plädoyer “für mehr Liberalismus in den Debatten” sein sollte. Der Text selbst war eine Ü
Credits Safiya U. Noble is an associate professor at UCLA, co-director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry and a faculty advisor to the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute. She is the author o
Katastophennachrichten über das Klima folgen immer schneller aufeinander (Tharoor ). Die Waldbrände in Sibirien, aber auch die Hitze hier in Europa sind Signale dafür, dass wir inzwischen auf dem stei
Christian Jarrett is the editor of Psyche. A cognitive neuroscientist by training, his books include The Rough Guide to Psychology (2011), Great Myths of the Brain (2014) and Be Who You Want: Unlockin
In 1957, a man from New York named R. Gordon Wasson published an article in Life about two trips he had taken, three decades apart. The first was to the Catskills, in New York, where his wife, Valenti
Essay By now we are all extremely familiar with the litany of challenges we face as a global species, the threats of scarcity which pit state against state and community against community, problems ma
When Peter Kozmus stepped off his plane from New York at Ljubljana airport in Slovenia in 2017, he expected to quietly grab his suitcase at the baggage carousel and make his way home. Instead, when he
From the lush green hill you can see Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, in the distance. Populations of deer, rabbits and turtles live here. The air is clean and the only signs that we are standing a
Last fall, the students in one of my writing classes alerted me to a wildly popular YouTube channel, run by an organization called Chillhop Music. The channel’s description was gentle, unassuming: “We
A doughnut cooked up in Oxford will guide Amsterdam out of the economic mess left by the coronavirus pandemic. While straining to keep citizens safe in the Dutch capital, municipality officials and th
The Burnout List January 8, 2020 I am a man who knows burnout. Last summer, I found myself in the deepest work-related hole I’ve experienced. I spent some time (with help) looking at what parts of my
Recently, a long-term client of mine sent me an email with the question below (scrubbed for anonymity) after we’d spent close to a year together building a set of objectives and key results (OKRs) for
Top 11 Overlapping Cultural Trends From 30 Reports Published inOn Advertising · 8 min read· Jan 22, 2020 -- By: Matt Klein For the last couple years I’ve made it a tradition to read every available tr
Over the past decade “freemium”—a combination of “free” and “premium”—has become the dominant business model among internet start-ups and smartphone app developers. Users get basic features at no cost
Scandinavians have it all. Universal public healthcare and education that is the envy of the world. Reasonable working hours with plenty of paid vacation. They have some of the highest levels of happi
In a grandiose 1930s building on the banks of the Seine in Paris, 150 French citizens chosen at random had gathered. Ranging from 16-year-old school pupils to carers, shuttle-bus drivers and retired r
Which personal action has the strongest impact on reducing the CO2 footprint of an average American or German? Turns out this question is surprisingly difficult to answer for most of us. And what are
Recently Netflix has been testing the option of letting viewers watch prerecorded programming at 1.5x speed (a feature that already exists on YouTube) so that users can consume more content in less ti
neuroscience To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight September 24, 2019 A brain circuit that suppresses distracting sensory information holds important clues about attention and othe
For Helmut Lang FW24, Peter Do Strikes Again (In a Good Way) Helmut Lang kicks off NYFW with its Fall/Winter 2024 presentation by Peter Do, titled "Protection vs. Projection." Style New Arrivals See A
Founders create startups for all sorts of reasons. Often, the motivation is a mix between the founders’ desires to do well for themselves and to do something worthwhile for others. Dreams of greatness
Im Juli hat Tim Jackson in dem Aufsatz Zero Carbon Sooner—The case for an early zero carbon target for the UK begründet, warum Großbritannien wesentlich früher als—wie derzeit geplant—bis 2050 CO2-neu
The warmer it gets, the more people crank up the air conditioning (AC). In fact, AC is booming in nations across the world: it’s predicted that around two thirds of the world’s households could have a
For two centuries the left was understandably relaxed about time. The arrow of time, which in nature produces complex systems out of simple ones, had replaced feudalism with capitalism, the proletaria
Welches politische System verarbeitet die Daten der Bürger für die Bürger besser: Demokratie oder Diktatur? Der israelische Historiker Yuval Noah Harari zählt zu den Vordenkern der Digitalisierung. Je
WHEN BEN VAN BEURDEN was a boy in the Netherlands, one of his chores was to fill the coal scuttle. It was a hateful task—especially in the cold weather when he had to traipse out to a shed in the back
Im letzten Jahr sind für mich zwei Entwicklungen wichtig geworden, die selten miteinander in Verbindung gebracht werden: das Engagement für Postwachstum, Degrowth oder Décroissance, und die IndieWeb-B
Nicht überall, wo Transformation in Leuchtbuchstaben draufsteht, ist auch Transformation drin. Es beginnt mit irrigen Annahme, mit Agilität ließe sich die Mitarbeiterleistung wi
Photo by Miguel Á. Padriñán from Pexels A few years ago, I wrote an article for the Harvard Business Review’s website about the excesses of email culture. In an effort to destabilize the perceived nec
Game of Thrones, in its eighth and final season, is as big as television gets these days. More than 17 million people watched the season’s opening. Judging by the fan and critic reaction though, it se
I own three pairs of noise-canceling headphones. Two go over my ears, enveloping them in cozy tombs of silence. One pair consists of earbuds, one of which I jam into my ear to block out the world whil
An introductory guide to handoff responsive mobile layouts Published inTap to Dismiss · 6 min read· Feb 1, 2019 -- Back in my day *adjusts glasses* designers had to take development classes and red li
Published inTap to Dismiss · 4 min read· Mar 12, 2019 -- A crafted balance of brand essence and science Too often digital designers are required to move fast and details are forgotten. Hopefully we ca
A journalist makes a video of the Instagram logo using the new video feature at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez (AP) The only good social network is evidently to
In August 2016 I went to New York for the first time. On the second evening, as the sun slipped behind the building across the street, I was sitting on a long couch on the top floor of an old church.
Is it perfect timing or merely perverse to release a documentary promoting the design philosophy “Less, but better” during the holiday season? The opening moments of Gary Hustwit’s “Rams,” about Diete
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