Society

A focus on open, inviting and community-centric interiors aims at appealing to a broad range of Black customers, including elders

A new attendance policy has made the life of train conductors and engineers a nightmare, and there’s nothing they can do about it.

This is a terrible reason to do something that makes things a little worse for other people. And a common one, of course. Much of the time, we’re willing to go out of our way to do work we&#8…

What separates Blind Melon from Shania Twain?

Use this educational repair toolkit to guide young learners to resourcefulness and student agency

It’s not just a phase.

How a pivot to vegan materials and crowdfunding led Paris fashion brand Laflore to 21st century success

A cognitive scientist’s research on the relationship between emotional regulation and performance shows just how big a role feelings of belonging and togetherness play when it comes to reversing trends of inequity.

The author of the First, the Few, the Only says corporate America is facing a crisis, and women of color are the new power brokers.

Mayuko Inoue left her career in Silicon Valley to focus on being a YouTuber full-time. Here’s how she’s handling jumping from one burnout to the next.

What is a middleman? And why do they have such a sour reputation?

The Future of Work issue of the Highlight looks at the workers Americans dubbed "essential" and then largely left behind in the work revolution. Can we make work better for the nation’s crucial workforce?

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc.'s intent to take a nearly 50% cut of digital asset sales within its emerging metaverse is drawing widespread criticism...

John Oliver's Last Week Tonight took on data brokers and surveillance capitalism in a recent show and he did his usual great job of explaining a serious topic in an entertaining way. Definitely worth the watch.

Ten years ago, I realized media literacy meant something different

TOKYO -- A theory widespread on the internet and elsewhere postulates that the Japanese word

A collection of conflict resolution tips from personal experience in customer service.

Offices are more “open” than they’ve been in the last two years. Do workers care?

In an era of rampant inflation and price gouging, one constant has remained unmoving for 30 years: the 99-cent tallboy can of Arizona Iced Tea. But how has this incredible soft drink managed to res…

In our textbook, Modern Principles, Tyler and I discuss India’s small scale reservation laws which for decades made it illegal for large firms to produce many manufactured goods: …traditionally most Indian shirts were made by hand in small shops of three or four tailors who designed, measured, sewed, and sold, all on the same premises. […]

“We use a lot of quotes at Tedium, but we’ve never done an issue of Tedium ABOUT quotations,” Ernie said when writing this piece. “Let’s fix that.”