There used to be only three ways off of a kidney transplant waiting list. The first was to find a healthy person from within one’s own pool of friends and family, who perfectly matched both the recipient’s blood and tissue types, and possessed a spare kidney he or she was willing to part with.
In an interview with the Washington Post last month, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said the company was experimenting with features that would promote material from opposing political viewpoints on users’ timelines, in an effort to puncture users’ self-curated information bubbles.
In the wake of the Equifax data breach one year ago, in which an estimated 145 million consumers’ personal information was stolen from the credit agency, one of the very few countermeasures customers were given was to freeze their credit, at all three major US credit agencies. A credit freeze restricts access to a consumer’s credit report, making it harder for would-be identity thieves to apply for loans or lines of credit in a victim’s name.
Had the stakes not been so high and the breach so egregious, Equifax’s bungled response one year ago to the theft of 147 million consumers’ personal data from its computer servers could have been considered comical.
Even for someone who did not know Anthony Bourdain, who saw his shows only sporadically and did not own a copy of Kitchen Confidential, the internet was a raw and painful place the day the acclaimed chef and storyteller died by suicide. It wasn’t just the loss, but the intentionality of it, and its happening just three days after designer Kate Spade’s death by the same cause only amplified the sorry senselessness of both.
The recent internet chatter over former Cosby Show actor Geoffrey Owens’s supplemental work at the grocery chain Trader Joe’s was strange for many reasons. It’s not newsworthy that a person with a long and active career as an actor and teacher also supplements his income with a job that offers flexibility, benefits, and a living wage; it’s not decent or reasonable to “shame” a person for the simple fact that they are employed.
Recently, the job review site Glassdoor compiled a list of 15 different companies that don’t require job applicants to have college degrees. The list includes high-paying tech outlets like Apple, Google, and IBM, in addition to service-oriented companies like Costco, Starbucks, and Chipotle.
For many journalists who work primarily in print, television appearances are a necessary evil. They promote a reporter’s work and please employers who want to get their publication in the public eye as much as possible. They are among the innumerable little extras that boost a career and matter when talk of promotions and raises come around.
Sale of prescription opioids in the US quadrupled in the 15 years between 1999 and 2014, peaking with the 255 million opioid prescriptions US doctors wrote in 2012 alone. The nationwide prescription rate has fallen every year since, yet the damage is done.
The romanticized view of summer vacations is of carefree, sun-dappled stretches of relaxation, outdoor exploration, and family togetherness. The reality is a more often a haze of disrupted childcare for working parents and a marked slide in educational achievement for kids that increases as the summer goes on.
It’s not necessarily illegal to announce that you want to take your company private on Twitter, as Elon Musk appeared to do earlier this week. It is, however, illegal to fraudulently claim that you are taking your company private on Twitter, which is what the plaintiffs in two lawsuits against Musk accuse him of doing.
The agrochemical giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289 million to a former US school groundskeeper who was exposed frequently on the job to the Monsanto product Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the world, and developed terminal cancer.
A report from UK Department of Health finds that Britain could be short 28,000 care workers within five years of Brexit—just as the country experiences an unprecedented rise in the numbers and proportion of aging people in need of care.
When BBC journalist Carrie Gracie learned in 2017 that she was being paid significantly less than two men who held the same title she did, she asked the company to raise her pay. The BBC declined.
Ask Americans how much time they spend slacking off at work, and they’re likely to . . . hedge. Other people may waste hours on the clock sleeping, watching YouTube videos, or shopping online, sure, but few people are willing to admit to doing it themselves.
We experience the world as a symphony of stimuli collected by the senses, though the influence of those various inputs changes over time.
The Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold, who died July 21 at the age of 57, once described his work as “trying to get people to be less afraid of their neighbors.” The only restaurant writer to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Gold celebrated the inhabitants of his sprawling, eclectic city by writing about the food they ate. He sought and celebrated delicious fare everywhere from white-tablecloth restaurants to food trucks to strip mall bars, finding poetry in nearly all of them.
Here’s what I know about humans: You’ll pay attention to anything with sharks in it. Put a shark fin on a movie poster and you suckers line up around the block. Name a show where rich people throw money at dumb ideas Shark Tank and you tune in by the millions.
On Monday (July 23), the staff at the New York Daily News received an email from “talent engagement” personnel at Tronc, the awkwardly named media company that bought the New York City tabloid last fall. In it, Tronc informed the paper’s employees that it was “fundamentally restructuring” the 99-year-old newspaper. By the end of the day, half the editorial staff had been laid off.
In most US marriages, husbands earn more than their wives do. Fascinating new research sheds light on the hidden internal conflicts in the minority of couples who flip those roles.
Croatia’s second-place finish at the 2018 FIFA World Cup brought global attention to the Balkan nation and its president, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović. The world’s media (Quartz included) was taken with the image of a leader cheering her team’s successes from the cheap seats and consoling them in the rain after a heartbreaking loss.
Spectators in the VIP section of the FIFA World Cup tend to be a far more sedate and stolid crew than fans elsewhere in the stadium. At Sunday’s final between France and Croatia, though, Croatian president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović was a literal bright spot in the crowd.
Older people in the US are getting divorced more than they ever have before, with the rate of divorce among those 50 or older roughly doubling in the past 30 years. ‘
Running a family is nothing if not a long exercise in multitasking: helping kids with homework while cooking dinner, staving off a toddler tantrum while pushing a grocery cart.
