Britney runs a marathon, sand wars [2013], morning glory [2010], empire of scents [2014]
Vogue - Your Next Puffer Coat Will Be Filled With Flower Petals, Not Feathers
Market Watch - Cautionary tale this holiday season: Fast shipping may contribute to climate change
Aeon - Religion is about emotion regulation, and it's very good at it
BBC - Crows Could Be the Smartest Animal Other Than Primates
Taste - The Multimillion-Dollar Junkets That Introduced Americans to Olive Oil
fivefightyeight - What Unites Republicans May Be Changing. Same With Democrats.
Bloomberg - Why Cruise Lines Keep Cutting Their Ships in Half
BBC - Why printers add secret tracking dots
Variety - How The Weather Channel Is Pioneering Mixed Reality for Live Television
Scientific American - How to Think about "Implicit Bias"
Bloomberg - The Economics of Dining as a Couple
BBC - A rubbish story: China's mega-dump full 25 years ahead of schedule
Taste - The Tyranny and the Comfort of Government Cheese
Vogue - The $120,000 Art Basel Banana, Explained
The Atlantic - We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things
"A recent NPR/Marist poll found that nine in 10 consumers rarely or never return stuff they’ve bought online."
"In 2017, Americans spent $240 billion—twice as much as they’d spent in 2002—on goods like jewelry, watches, books, luggage, and telephones and related communication equipment, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which adjusted those numbers for inflation. Over that time, the population grew just 13 percent. Spending on personal care products also doubled over that time period. Americans spent, on average, $971.87 on clothes last year, buying nearly 66 garments, according to the American Apparel and Footwear Association. That’s 20 percent more money than they spent in 2000. The average American bought 7.4 pairs of shoes last year, up from 6.6 pairs in 2000."
"But the ability to easily get rid of stuff may be making people feel a little better about buying things they don’t need, and motivating them to buy even more."
Mark Manson - The American Dream is Killing Us
"In fact, economic mobility is lower in the US than almost every other developed country, and somewhere on par with Slovenia and Chile — not exactly the gold standards of economic opportunity in the world"
"But over 25% of Americans have no savings. Zero."
"Here’s a stat that will knock your socks off: 45% of homeless people have a job."
