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WeWork proves that (venture) capitalism works
What’s the lesson of WeWork? Here’s a startup that has been a darling of Silicon Valley investors for years, whose offices and CEO have been stunningly painted across the covers of major trade magazines and strategically deployed across major tech conference …
Whats the lesson of WeWork?
Heres a startup that has been a darling of Silicon Valley investors for years, whose offices and CEO have been stunningly painted across the covers of major trade magazines and strategically deployed across major tech conference s… [+5241 chars]
Danny Crichton
2019-09-29 15:14:54
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The Myth of the Frivolous Female Spender
Women buy shoes, men buy power — or so goes the trope. Here’s why that myth persists.
Anne Boden was at the salon one morning, flipping through some magazines. I wanted to look at the language around men, women and money, she said. Boden, the founder and chief executive officer of Starling Bank, based in Britain, had been wondering why her cus… [+1788 chars]
Kristin Wong
2019-10-04 19:30:40
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How to Make a Hotel Room Feel More Like Home
If you travel for work, then there’s a good chance you’re going to treat at least a few hotel rooms like “home.” Read more...
If you travel for work, then theres a good chance youre going to treat at least a few hotel rooms like home.
Hotel rooms can be great, but if youre using one for an extended period of time, then there are a few things you can do to make living in that hotel … [+2333 chars]
Emily Price
2019-10-19 22:31:00
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Unlock More Than 1 Million Books and Articles You Can Read Anywhere
Scribd gives you access to a huge library of books, audiobooks, magazines, and newspapers from around the world.
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Entrepreneur Store
2019-09-23 13:30:00
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Apple News Plus is now available in the UK and Australia
Today, Apple announced that Apple News Plus, its premium news subscription service, is now available in the UK for £9.99 a month and in Australia for $14.99 a month. It’s the first expansion of the service since its March launch; previously, it had only been …
Its the first global expansion of the app
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
Today, Apple announced that Apple News Plus, its premium news subscription service, is now available in the UK for £9.99 a month and in Australia for $14.99 a month. Its the first e… [+1252 chars]
Jay Peters
2019-09-30 23:36:39
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Modular Music Synthesis On The Web
It is hard to imagine how the electronics hobby survived without the Internet. You found like-minded people and projects in magazines. And it is even harder to imagine what projects were in the magazines before the widespread availability of CPU chips. Think …
It is hard to imagine how the electronics hobby survived without the Internet. You found like-minded people and projects in magazines. And it is even harder to imagine what projects were in the magazines before the widespread availability of CPU chips. Think … [+1092 chars]
Al Williams
2019-10-10 02:00:04
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Watch: how magazines were produced before desktop publishing
Bryony Dalefield pasted up the London Review of Books in the early 1980s. In this video she shows how she did it back in the the good old days of rubber cement and X-Acto knives. I laid out the first issue of bOING bOING in 1987 this way. Image: YouTube [ via…
In the early 1980s, Susan Kare joined Apple Computer to design fonts and user interface graphics. A legend of pixel art, Kare created the look of the original Macintosh, from the Chicago typeface to the Trash Can to the Happy Mac icon. She’s currently creativ… [+1484 chars]
Mark Frauenfelder
2019-10-16 21:25:01
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Apple Launches Apple News+ in the UK and Australia
Apple News +, Apple’s subscription news and magazine service, has launched for users who live in the UK and Australia, Apple announced today. Apple News + subscribers can access more than 150 publications in Apple News +, with a on…
Apple News+, Apples subscription news and magazine service, has launched for users who live in the UK and Australia, Apple announced today.
Apple News+ subscribers can access more than 150 publications in Apple News+, with a one month free trial available to… [+1506 chars]
Juli Clover
2019-09-30 17:53:27
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Missing West Point Cadet And Rifle Spark Major Search Effort
The student was last seen on Friday. The military academy does not believe he has any magazines or ammunition.
A West Point cadet and an M4 rifle have vanished, and “despite extensive search efforts by military, federal, state, and local agencies,” neither has been found, the U.S. Military Academy said on Monday.
The college said in a statement that the unidentified … [+1350 chars]
Amy Russo
2019-10-21 22:39:33
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There’s Other News. Here You Go.
The news from Washington has felt like an avalanche. Here’s what else happened this week.
The State Department announced that the American refugee program would be cut by almost half. The country will accept 18,000 refugees during the next 12 months, down from the current limit of 30,000. (For comparisons sake, President Obama said 110,000 refugee… [+1270 chars]
Karen Zraick
2019-09-27 17:13:13
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These Major Library Systems Don't Charge Late Fees
The Chicago Public Library system and Fort Worth Public Library system stopped charging fines for overdue books and forgave all outstanding fines this week. They join a growing list of libraries that have replaced late fees with a more lenient and flexible “l…
The Chicago Public Library system and Fort Worth Public Library system stopped charging fines for overdue books and forgave all outstanding fines this week. They join a growing list of libraries that have replaced late fees with a more lenient and flexible lo… [+3491 chars]
Nick Douglas
2019-10-02 19:00:00
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Shoulders I Have Rubbed
Richard Davenport-Hines: Shoulders Have I Rubbed - The Glossy Years: Magazines, Museums and Selective Memoirs by Nicholas Coleridge
Nicholas Coleridge was given sound advice as an eighteen-year-old intern at a Cornish newspaper called the Falmouth Packet. Mention as many names as possible in your copy, the editor told him. When covering a school sports day, dont come back with fewer than … [+4814 chars]
2019-10-02 21:01:15
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Nine Albums Later, Tegan and Sara Are Finally Ready to Discuss High School
In a new memoir and an album of songs they wrote as teenagers, the feminist pop stars look back at their traumas, triumphs and life as identical twins.
TEGAN I never needed an external source to inspire me. Its inside of me. I want to make my own rules. I dont want to ask permission. There were long stretches of our career where I felt Sara dwelled on meaningless things. But she was finding a way to work thr… [+1770 chars]
Jenn Pelly and Liz Pelly
2019-09-28 09:39:23
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CBC podcast about arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou
CBC Radio Podcasts. Discover programming that tickles your curiosity, feeds your brain and sparks your emotions. You'll find the best of our popular national Radio One shows, regional podcast magazines and more.
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Episode 8 - The Rule of LawSteve Bannon - the man credited with engineering U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign announces plans to release a movie based on the Meng Wanzhou story. Tensions between Canada an… [+3304 chars]
2019-10-06 03:40:21
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Mysterious and Colorful Illustrations by Helena Garcia Perez
Award-winner Helena Perez Garcia is a Spanish illustrator based in London. Her work has been features in many different magazines, newspapers, packaging and books for children and adults across the world. With gouache as main media, she creates colorful piece…
Manon
2019-09-27 14:28:07
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7 'facts' you learned about sex growing up that aren't actually true
Paramount Pictures The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 96% of teenagers enrolled in school are taught some sort of formal sexual education before they turn 18. Although many schools base their curricula on evidence-based in…
Sexual health education is a fairly recent development in the United States, with the first sex ed classes cropping up in schools in the 1960s, according to Planned Parenthood.
But the concept of sex education has since become a part of most kids' basic scho… [+1003 chars]
feedback@businessinsider.com (Julia Naftulin), Julia Naftulin
2019-10-22 19:30:20
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Your First Style Steps: Beyond Jeans, T-Shirts, and Tennis Shoes
A lot of guys would like to improve their personal style, but they feel a little overwhelmed as to how to start. Men’s sartorial blogs and magazines often showcase photo spreads of male models wearing expensive, fashion-forward clothes that seem inaccessible …
A lot of guys would like to improve their personal style, but they feel a little overwhelmed as to how to start. Men’s sartorial blogs and magazines often showcase photo spreads of male models wearing expensive, fashion-forward clothes that seem inaccessible … [+8001 chars]
Antonio
2019-10-03 18:02:23
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Biden's gun control plan would impose strict regulations on owners of assault-style rifles
Joe Biden is proposing to force owners of assault-style rifles to either sell their firearms through a voluntary buyback program or register them with the federal government under the same law that was first used to strictly control sales of machine guns in t…
(CNN)Joe Biden is proposing to force owners of assault-style rifles to either sell their firearms through a voluntary buyback program or register them with the federal government under the same law that was first used to strictly control sales of machine guns… [+3661 chars]
Eric Bradner, CNN
2019-10-02 09:38:05
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