Joe Nocera’s Two-Part Plan to Fix Air-Travel Hell.
Part 1: A common-sense rule. Part 2: Secondary ticket markets. (And shouldn't airlines think of travelers as customers, not cargo?)
The 100 Greatest Props in Movie History, and the Stories Behind Them.
“The coconut gag was the original gag that sparked the whole thing (Monty Python and the Holy Grail, ed.) off. We did talk about having horses at one point and then we quickly dismissed it because we thought it be funnier not to and because we couldn't afford horses anyway.”
How to Think Like an Economist (If, That Is, You Wish to...).
If you are coming to economics from a background in the humanities, you probably see it as a combination of two centuries out-of-date psychology and moral philosophy, coupled with obscure and often wrong—yet somehow authoritative in some way—mathematical manipulations.
Relevant: How bosses are (literally) like dictators.
Die Slums von Wien.
Max Winter (1870 – 1937) gilt als Vater der deutschsprachigen Sozialreportage. „Die Höhlenbewohner von Wien“ erschien 1901 in der „Arbeiter Zeitung“, für die er die längste Zeit seines Lebens tätig war, während des Ersten Weltkriegs als Chefredakteur. Winter war Sozialdemokrat. Er schrieb, um seine Gesellschaft zu verändern, und nicht selten direkt im Imperativ: „Bauet Obdachlosenasyle! Schaffet Kinderspielplätze!“
We’re building on a web littered with too-heavy sites, on an internet that’s unevenly, unequally distributed. That’s why designing a lightweight, inexpensive digital experience is a form of kindness.
Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals.
While we busy ourselves greening our personal lives, fossil fuel corporations are rendering these efforts irrelevant. The breakdown of carbon emissions since 1988? A hundred companies alone are responsible for an astonishing 71 percent. You tinker with those pens or that panel; they go on torching the planet.
We need this, obviously.
A template for investor/founder sexual harassment policy.
The policy template below was created to facilitate the creation of comprehensive, enforceable investor/founder sexual harassment policies. It also seeks to lower the barrier so more people can courageously speak up against their harassers without fear of retaliation.
The Center for the Study of the Public Domain is proud to announce the publication of “Theft! A History of Music”, a graphic novel laying out a 2000-year long history of musical borrowing from Plato to rap.
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DoppioJVM – A Java Virtual Machine written in 100% JavaScript.