I guess we should’a known by the way he parked his car sideways that it wouldn’t last.
WHAT: A full-page print ad running in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, The New York Times, the Detroit Free Press, the Los Angeles Times, and USA Today from Chevy to pay tribute to Prince the day after the the recently departed pop icon’s death.
Sometimes, everyone is better off when mom goes on strike.
My mother put dinner on the table five or six nights a week when I was growing up, complete with salad and side dishes and place mats and ironed cloth napkins. For many years, I struggled to emulate my mom’s domestic achievement—even before I had kids. But I have been broken down since I started to attempt to feed three people other than myself, two of whom are children and one of whom is as picky as a child.
In two separate high-profile cases the government pushed hard to compel Apple to hack into iPhones—then gave up at the last minute.
In two high-profile cases now, the government has gone to court to force Apple to help break into a criminal’s iPhone—only to abandon its legal effort at the eleventh hour before a crucial hearing or filing deadline.
We traveled to Holloman Air Force Base for a glimpse of the future of war—and the future of work.
On most weekday mornings, Crystal drops her daughter, Bianca, at school before driving through downtown Alamogordo, New Mexico, a town of 31,000 people in the Chihuahuan Desert, on her way to work. She and her husband, Luis, coordinate after-school care and pick-up, and by the time the sun sets over White Sands Missile Range, the sky aflame with ragged streaks of pink, they’re both home with Bianca for dinner and homework.
Losing bits of time here and there can wear you down. Here’s how to make the most of the time that slips away.
Even if the big pieces of your life fit together well, wasted bits of time can feel as annoying as a leaky faucet. Some of these leaks can be blamed on others, and some are self-inflicted, but either way, no one can make more time. Losing minutes in drips and drops can wear you down. Here are some common time leaks, with short- and long-term solutions for plugging them.
An analysis of 15,000 leaders in 18 countries found that the degree-holders who score much better at leadership skills will surprise you.
Just in time for graduation, reports are examining the economic prospects for the newly minted class of 2016. But one thing is less obvious to both the graduates and their prospective employers: who will make the best leader?
World Wide Hearing is using cheap tech, market incentives, and crash-course training to help restore hearing in impoverished communities.
“It’s amazing what you can find in a kid’s ear…think bugs and cockroaches and little tiny kids with a tremendous amount of mold coming out of their ears.”
That’s Audra Renyi, executive director and cofounder of a 5-year-old Montreal-based nonprofit called “World Wide Hearing Foundation International” that wants to help the world’s other 99%: The hearing-impaired people in poor countries who can’t afford a hearing aid, debilitated by a condition that usually has a simple tech fix in wealthier societies.
Freelancers rarely own a stake in the work that they do, which can make it harder to build wealth over time.
The gig economy is here, it’s real, and it’s global. According to a report by the Freelancers Union, 34% of American workers can now be classified as freelancers. And while that number is a subject of some debate and includes your Uber driver, it encompasses a growing number of white-collar workers as well—people who offer legal, financial, accounting, or design services on demand.
When your career starts to get frustrating, sometimes it’s best to think small.
It was when Bruce Lee was working on the bent-penis project that he started to wonder about the direction of his career. It was 2011. Lee, an adman who happens to share a Kung Fu master’s name, had opted to go freelance in recent years, which had proven lucrative enough. But the projects were frustrating.
People need to control their circumstances to thrive, but overdoing it can be disastrous. Here’s the secret to “internal control.”
In an interesting, albeit cruel, study using rats, researchers placed the animals into three groups. The first set of rats could consume cocaine whenever they wanted to. The rats in the second group were forced to take the drug whenever a “partner rat” in the first group chose to. The rats in the third and final group were the sober ones—no coke for them.
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