How can brands stand out to consumers and vie for their ever-elusive dollars? It turns out storytelling is just as important when it comes to commerce as in any other form of media. On February 28 and 29 attendees heard from experts as they discussed the skills and investment needed to build an optimal brand...
Sports brand Overtime penned a new distribution deal with the National Football League on Thursday, an expansion of a prior partnership between the two parties and a key cosign for the 8-year-old company. The Overtime portfolio now includes four proprietary sports leagues, their media rights partnerships, an arena in Atlanta and an apparel and licensing...
San Francisco startup Unspun is the new face of the movement to cut down on emissions and waste in fashion. Its newest assignment: making work chinos for Walmart on its 3D weaving machines.
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Curse words shift a lot over time. They’re in the middle of a big shift right now.
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Can histories of economic crisis provide us with useful lessons?
A lively biography of Marie de Vignerot, the niece, confidante, and heiress of Cardinal Richelieu, sheds light on the religious passions and political intrigues of seventeenth-century France.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film, About Dry Grasses, combines the painterly images, frustrated characters, and existential spirit of his earlier work.
The modern reading public has resisted relinquishing its settled idea about Robert Louis Stevenson as a romantic fantasist, but in his day he was considered one of the best essayists of his generation.
Behind the victory of his chosen successor in February’s elections lies a complicated story of how outgoing President Joko Widodo’s co-opted much of Indonesian society while consolidating immense power.
Most translators are the worthiest of people: gifted, erudite, hardworking, and modest in their material needs. People who crave money and fame choose other jobs. Babysitting would pay better, though that’s true of many intellectual and creative professions these days. And even when the work you’ve translated succeeds brilliantly, few readers even notice that it’s […]
A groundbreaking new book demonstrates that even during the days of slavery, African Americans knew a lot more about legal principles than has been imagined.
“I never thought I was great,” Barbra Streisand writes in her capacious memoir, but the truth seems to be that for a large part of her life she flirted with the possibility that she was.
Tracy Kidder’s portrait of a doctor and his homeless patients offers personhood to people many Americans have trained themselves not to see.
The bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death is an opportunity to ask what a witty dandy with the flamboyant attitudes of a raucously chauvinistic age can offer today's world.
You said I had to sleep in the cage but the smoke alarm went off and wouldn’t stop so I was like fuck this and slept in the other room, whose love seat is hardly better than the cage. But you were pissed. Let us never again begin the day with an argument when I’m […]
In a past life I was not defined by his death.… I was not rerouted like a plane through Charlotte.… I was part of a “nuclear family,” the phrasing of which appears first in 1924 as “the nuclear family complex.”… I did not have a complex.… I smiled... Читать дальше...
A gullible new book raises the question of how we should interpret the history of the supernatural in early modernity.
Researchers use powerful geometrical methods to try fixing unfair districts. That alone isn’t enough; we need to fight the values behind gerrymandering
Well, we guess the cat’s out of the bag—or as we say around these parts, the door is off the plane: we have been sending aircraft into the sky that are not sky-worthy. Frankly, they’re barely ground-worthy. And you probably heard that the whistleblower who raised all those quality concerns has not at all suspiciously been found dead of a self-inflicted wound. Naturally, people have been asking for our response to these allegations that our planes aren’t safe and should be grounded.
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In the aftermath of disaster, tiny creatures reveal their surprising genetic defenses.
You can find all the details here on how to follow our upcoming cinch Premiership clash with Livingston!
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But they can look wildly different on other worlds.
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At Least 5 People Killed, Including U.N. Staffer, as Israel Bombs UNRWA Gaza Aid Site, 27 Gazans Have Died of Hunger, Including 23 Babies and Children, as Israel Continues to Block Aid, U.N.: Israel Violated International Law When It Killed Reuters Reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon, Activists from San Francisco to New York Disrupt Business as Usual to Shine Light on Gaza Genocide, Jewish Voice for Peace Occupies Hakeem Jeffries’s Office as 20+ Orgs Launch “Reject AIPAC” Coalition, U.S. House Votes... Читать дальше...
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