Society

In countries throughout the world, even in countries where there are no snakes, the most common dream is one based on our (it must be) genetic fear of snakes. But in Bhutan, they dream of rainbows.…

The U.S. company Northrop Grumman was awarded a $3.29 billion arms contract.

The legal decision that fostered the idea of the manufacturer’s suggested retail price, and why it still sticks around even though that decision was overturned.

Learn discretionary effort examples in the workplace and simple tips to increase employee engagement and encourage discretionary effort.

8th June 2021 How can a creator keep control of the characters they create when the intellectual property in those characters are owned by others? In the DC and Marvel universes there are thousands…

It’s not just Washington's big cities contributing to mass incarceration.

How we went from B.F. Skinner to China's social credit system.

The phrase “surveillance capitalism” has become an organizing idea for many critics of Big Tech. That phrase overstates the power dynamics at play in commercial collection and use of personal information, but valid concerns with the present-day information economy do exist.

The content on sites like Facebook and Google is supposedly free of charge. But what are the hidden costs to unsuspecting users? Shoshana Zuboff warns of an information coup, with the foundations of American democracy placed under threat by the tech giants’ clandestine data collection process. She speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about the dangers of “surveillance capitalism.”

Who decided that nothing should be something?

We should probably be talking more about the way religion plays into American and Western extremism.

The world that gave us Star Trek is looking more and more progressive than the one we are currently in.

Rarely seen items show the process and relationship at the heart of the work by Christo and his partner, Jeanne-Claude.

Tech:NYC is the industry association for NY’s tech sector. They play a number of important roles and one of them is to educate and inform about the impact of the tech sector in NY. To that end, they launched a valuable resource last month called Innovation Indicators. Innovation Indicators is a dashboard that shows the […]

Should we be worried? Well, size isn't everything

From the Israel Museum in Jerusalem’s 2013 exhibition White Gold  [Originally published at Bullionstar.] For several years Brits have been ...

The Covid Rotation turns, and ecommerce penetration is back to the trend line. But which trend line, and which penetration?

Which they did on Tuesday, when the NLRB and the Justice Department announced a joint effort to go after monopsonistic violators of workers’ rights