Apple Watch Sales Beat Combined Swiss Watch Sales
Totaling watch sales through year-end 2017, every Swiss watch maker combined outsold the Apple Watch — 24 million to 18 million. But the final quarter […]
Recommended Reading: What Kurt Vonnegut Can Teach Us About Coping with the Internet
‘We can remember that between one post a decade ago and now, there were endless versions of ourselves and others, changing and choosing.’ I’m a […]
Recommended Reading: How Spotify Beat Apple to Charting the Future of Music
Spotify beat back the scourge of streaming album exclusives, and now it’s ready to go public. Here’s what it says about how fans value artists […]
Recommended Reading: ‘The Good War’ How WWII Nostalgia Warped the Response to 9/11
I highly recommend this read, The Good War is a graphic essay by Mike Dawson and Chris Hayes that posits that the nostalgia for World […]
Regular Ibuprofen Use May Increase Risk of Fertility Issues in Men
Here’s some interesting news for those of you who take ibuprofen regularly. A small cohort of 31 healthy young men who took 600mg of ibuprofen […]
Recommended Reading: How the baby boomers – not millennials – screwed America
The boomers inherited a rich, dynamic country and have gradually bankrupted it. Millennials, myself included, take a beating. We’re spoiled, entitled, over-educated yet under-skilled, and […]
Recommended Reading: Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear
Ted Chiang is well known for his science fiction writing, specifically his short story Story of Your Life, which became the basis for Arrival and […]
Recommended Reading: Deliverance From 27,000 Feet
Take 30 minutes and go get lost in this completely engrossing story by John Branch about the recovery of the bodies of two Indian climbers […]
Recommended Reading: Guess Which Schools and Degrees Produce the Most Student Loan Defaults? Hint: It’s Not the Humanities
There’s a lot of talk in the news this week about the number of people defaulting on student loans. We’re told that the student loan […]
Universal Basic Income Explained
Oooh, Kurzgesagt takes on one of my favorite subjects today and tries to explain the concepts behind Universal Basic Income (UBI) in a brief 10 […]
Recommended Reading: The Ethics of Using Brain Implants to Upgrade Yourself
Neurotechnology is a hot area of future tech that’s becoming less and less “future.” The technological achievements so far are pretty miraculous: paralyzed people gaining […]
