On a hot day last May, entrepreneurs from all over the world packed themselves into a warehouse event space just off of New York City’s…
The last surviving human from the 19th century has died
Nabi Tajima died yesterday at a hospital on the Japanese island of Kikaijima, according to the Associated Press. Born Aug. 4, 1900, she passed away…
DEMOCRACY, EH?
Mitt Romney failed to secure the Senate nomination in Utah. So did Abe Lincoln.
Mitt Romney did not win the Republican nomination outright for a Senate seat in Utah yesterday. He was hoping to have avoided the run-off altogether…
LOWBALL
New Year’s resolution pro-tip: Aim really, really low
It’s that time of year again. Over the holidays, you’ve convinced yourself that it’s time to make some major life changes, and in the happy…
269 COUNTS
The latest alleged “Nigerian prince” email scammer is a man in Louisiana
You know the email: A Nigerian Prince is in trouble, and he can pay you handsomely if you’ll help him—that is, he can pay you…
GAME CHANGE
Video game addiction will become a recognized mental health disorder in 2018
The World Health Organization (WHO) has included “gaming disorder” in a draft of its upcoming 11th International Classification of Diseases—a book used by researchers and…
HOW TO
Writing guides to our work styles helped my team bond
Earlier this year, the Quartz at Work team decided to try a 30-minute exercise that we hoped would make us collectively less anxious and more…
BOTS WITH BEATS
Automating my job taught me that robots aren’t as scary as we think
I learned that robots could do my job just as I was about to graduate from college, in 2010. My university’s computer science department had…
SHOW OF FORCE
The threats between Donald Trump and North Korea just escalated to a “show of force”
In an attempt to demonstrate that “the President has many military options to defeat any threat,” US Air Force B-1 bombers and F-15 jets flew…
I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT I AM
Past US presidents’ insults of North Korea now seem quaint
“Rocket Man!” “Mentally deranged US dotard!” “Madman!” No, this isn’t the taunting dialogue of schoolyard bullies. It’s the latest discourse between the president of the…
NO VOTES
Mark Zuckerberg will sell at least $6 billion in Facebook stock over the next 18 months
Facebook is nixing its plan to create a class of non-voting stock. CEO Mark Zuckerberg had proposed the plan so that he could fund his…
DROPPING THE BALL
To Donald Trump, what’s wrong with football is what’s wrong with America
The latest Republican effort to dismember Obamacare seemed on the brink of failure, the US was recovering from not one but two massive natural disasters,…
