Marc welcomes the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, to the garage for conversation about college, fitting in, race relations, gun violence, changing the status quo, disappointing your fans, comedians, fatherhood and overcoming fear.
We, as a species, are currently putting together a universal repository of knowledge and ideas, unprecedented in scope and scale. Which information-handling technology should we model it on? The one that’s worked for 4 billion years and is responsible for our existence? Or the one that’s led to the greatest intellectual tragedies in history?
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Google recently announced a font family, Noto, that aims to include all the world’s written languages. But it may prove to be an even more ambitious effort than self-driving cars.
Data from aviation firm FlightAware24 shows flights skirting around Ukraine in the wake of the crash of Malaysian Flight 17, likely shot down over the Eastern part of Ukraine
“The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.”
John Oliver’s excitement for the World Cup is tempered by knowing information about FIFA, the organization that produces it.
“…but it’s not just [a religion], it’s an organized religion, and FIFA is its church. Just think about it – its leader is infallible, it compelled South American countries to spend money they don’t have building opulent cathedrals, and it may ultimately be responsible for the deaths of shocking numbers of people in the Middle East.”
Street View photography presents a different perspective on the individual’s relation to his external world than the art of previous historical periods.
What does the Ikea Effect mean for product and service designers? By having users build a piece of a product or service, it’s possible we could get them to think of the product or service as being more valuable than they otherwise would.
“Absolutely dumbfounded by this reply from a student, when I criticised his generic mass-email asking for a job.”
The US spy agency’s writing manual has been leaked. What does it teach us about penning truly great secret communiques?
