On April 21, 2016, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 90th birthday. While the queen usually prefers to spend the day...
Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan (2007-2012). Photo by Hufton+Crow via D Pages Her work is distinctively NEOFUTURISTIC, characterized by the “powerful,...
I found out how much opportunity there might be for large companies in Cuba on a sweltering August afternoon on one of Havana’s busiest thoroughfares. I ducked into a minuscule shop that seemed to specialize in passport photos and photocopy services.
What defines who we are? Our habits? Our aesthetic tastes? Our memories? If pressed, I would answer that if there is any part of me that sits at my core, that is an essential part of who I am, then surely it must be my moral center, my deep-seated sense of right and wrong.
In the Northern hemisphere’s sky, hovering above the Milky Way, there are two constellations—Cygnus the swan, her wings outstretched in full flight, and Lyra, the harp that accompanied poetry in ancient Greece, from which we take our word “lyric.”
ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH, the 88th Academy Awards were held in Hollywood, California. Leonardo di Caprio won his first Oscar with longtime friend Kate Winslet by his side — click through the slideshow for more of this moment and a few of our other favourites from the evening . . .
In the Northern hemisphere’s sky, hovering above the Milky Way, there are two constellations—Cygnus the swan, her wings outstretched in full flight, and Lyra, the harp that accompanied poetry in ancient Greece, from which we take our word “lyric.”
Driving offers some compensating advantages over mass transit, of course, including a greater sense of autonomy and control. But one of the seeming conveniences of driving—that getting from home to work doesn’t force you to walk any farther than from your kitchen to your garage at one end, and from your employer’s parking lot to your desk at the other—isn’t a benefit. It’s a liability.
TEN PANDAS were born this year at the Ya’an Bifengxia Giant Panda Breeding Center in China, making their first public appearance last...
Empathy is hot in business wisdom these days: Forbes says it’sinvaluable, Apple’s training manual offers empathy exercises, and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson calls caring “key.”
If you have been following along on Instagram and facebook, you may have come across a few subtle hints here &...
1. What Is Fatigue? “When, on a blustery day in Oxford in 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile,...
Silicon Valley is not a place where one is invited to show frailty or despondence. It is, as Nick puts it, “the place where everybody is killing it all the time.
Today’s Articles of Interest from Around the Internets 1. At the gates of power: how Marine Le Pen is unnerving...
Acclaimed Fashion designer, Oscar de la Renta passed away on Monday, at his home in Kent, Connecticut, after a long battle with cancer. He was 82 years of age.