We talked to synth pop pioneer Gary Numan about Moog synthesizers and the state of the music industry.
Gary Numan was an accidental pioneer. While recording with his band Tubeway Army in 1978, the British musician stumbled across the Minimoog synthesizer and began using the machine to give his songs a more electronic flavor. Despite his record label’s fierce skepticism, Numan would quickly score now-recognizable hits like “Cars” and “Are Friends Electric?”
The science behind why we are terrible at making decisions for ourselves but are so quick to say “I told you so.”
If you’ve ever started a sentence with, “If I were you . . . ” or found yourself scratching your head at a colleague’s agony over a decision when the answer is crystal-clear, there’s a scientific reason behind it. Our own decision-making abilities can become depleted over the course of the day causing indecision or poor choices, but choosing on behalf of someone else is an enjoyable task that doesn’t suffer the same pitfalls, according to a study published in Social Psychology and Personality Science.
The Muse has grown to four times the size of its former self in under a year. CEO Kathryn Minshew explains what that’s taught her.
One of the most exciting parts of growing your company is bringing on new talent. An infusion of new people brings fresh perspectives, ideas, and energy—not to mention those much-needed extra hands.
Rio is now Airbnb’s fourth largest city. The company has updated its payments system there so that locals can more easily use the site.
In 2014, when Brazil hosted the World Cup, the number of Airbnb listings in Rio alone rocketed from about 800 to 17,000. But most Brazilians couldn’t use their preferred payment methods to book a room on the homesharing site.
The surprising list, topped by Goodwill, Amazon, and Google, shows that consumers perceive “good” in a different way than the experts.
A company’s shareholder value doesn’t necessarily reflect its value to the wider world: how useful its products are, the good it does for people, how much it tries to minimize social and environmental harm. With that in mind, a new survey asked people to rank companies for their perceived “purpose”—the extent to which they stand for something other than making money.
David Brenner of Habitat Horticulture is greening up Bay Area companies—from Tesla to Ideo to Autodesk—one living wall at a time.
As with many virtuosos, David Brenner, founder of the San Francisco–based living wall experts Habitat Horticulture, makes his creative process seem intuitive and effortless. “Like designing anything, it starts with parameters that help define the aesthetic,” he says. But unlike the parameters of product design (dimensions, materials, and fabrication capabilities) or architecture (site conditions, budget, and permits), his parameters are often more ephemeral. Given the vacillating sunlight and climactic conditions on any given day, what will grow?
You think you know what the words means, but you have no idea until you hear how John Cena explains it.
Authenticity has become a buzzword that has been steadily losing its flavor because brands and marketers rarely assess its true meaning tailored to their products.
If you turn a work acquaintance into a true confidant, you’ll have more fun at work—and improve your life too.
Friends make life better, and work is an easy place to meet potential friends for a simple reason: We spend a lot of our lives there. If you are fortunate enough to have a work friend who is also a real, rest-of-life friend, you score several upsides. These friends are “uniquely empathetic,” says Jessica Methot, assistant professor of human resource management at Rutgers University, “they make the workplace a lot more fun,” and they improve job performance as you gain access to information and networks.
The telecom giant, which is in talks to acquire Yahoo, wants a piece of the digital content revolution.
It’s barely noon and the teenage girls at AOL’s live studio in downtown Manhattan are already doing the giggle-scream, their excitement at the sight of Beau Mirchoff, star of MTV’s Awkward, bubbling over into shrieks and Snapchats.
PBS Digital Studios animated a 53-year-old interview with Rod Serling in which he talks about childhood creativity.
“Some liars go to prison, others write television shows,” said Rod Serling. Luckily for TV history, Serling falls into the latter camp—he created the kooky science fiction series The Twilight Zone in 1959.
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