Tag: CULTURE

How We Learn: A WIRED Investigation

That Johannes Gutenberg guy was on to something. He may not have been the first person to print texts on paper using movable type—systems in China and Korea predated his—but his printing press made it faster, and cheaper, to create a record of a thought. One by one, those thoughts spread across Europe, philosophy and…

By HotelSalesCareers March 20, 2019 Off

While You Were Offline: But (Ivanka's) Emails …

It's Thanksgiving Week, which means that the tryptophan haze has caused us to produce a shorter look back at online chatter in a week during which the stock market tanked, romaine lettuce was revealed to be potentially poisonous, and California remained on fire. There was, as that list might make clear, a lot going on…

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How Trumpy Bear Divided the World—and Conquered the Internet

Trumpy Bear’s two-minute commercial begins with a prophecy. A baritone voice intones it: “The wind whispered through the forest, ‘A storm is coming. You cannot defeat the storm … I fear nothing.'” When the wind’s monologue concludes, the ad offers up campy endorsements of Trumpy Bear from salt-of-the-earth archetypes: firefighters, law enforcement officers, pizza shop…

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