In 1979, David Byrne predicted Netflix. “It’ll be as easy to hook your computer up to a central television bank as it is to get the week’s groceries,” he told…
Continue ReadingGetty Images Your gift can cheer up one person. Or it can cheer up many — for the same price. The winter holidays are upon us, and in a typical year,…
Continue Reading“How to Build a Life” is a biweekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. The polls before the 2020 election were an inaccurate predictor of the…
Continue ReadingI’ve always gone out of my way to recycle, conserve electricity, and vote for government officials who take climate change seriously. But I didn’t understand the true gravity of environmental…
Continue ReadingTV commissioners, give Mrs Coulter her own fashion series immediately. The flicker of delight that crosses her face when she learns our world is a “culture of consumerism” shows she’d…
Continue ReadingPopulation-rich nations now are becoming the new leaders, affecting all aspects of global trades. Follow @ambazaarmag Only digital economies will survive a digital world, rest may drown in paper-baskets; upskilling…
Continue ReadingMembers of BTS attend a press conference for the release of the group’s new album, BE, on November 20, 2020. | JTBC PLUS/Imazins via Getty Images BTS’s success has won…
Continue ReadingThis piece was originally published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. When it comes to dealing with floods, droughts, heat waves,…
Continue ReadingAfter weeks and weeks of build up, we are now at the height of Black Friday. The zenith, the very peak of this strange and wondrous annual event, where the…
Continue ReadingIconic Shopping Tradition Dies As “Blasé Friday” Means No More Stampedes Or Frenzied Crowds Tyler Durden Fri, 11/27/2020 – 15:30 With the post-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy having already been downgraded to…
Continue ReadingThe problem with Consumerism, explained. Support this via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OurChangingClimate In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at the problem with consumerism. Specifically, the video looks at…
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