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How Does “Creativity” Translate Across Different Cultures?

A new report shows the variety in attitude and approach to creativity in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Brazil, Turkey, Russia, China, and India.

What is creativity? What does it mean to be creative? And, assuming you can come up with your own definition, how do you think it differs from others around the world? Those are just a few of the questions addressed in a new report from agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky London and Vlad Glaveanu, an associate professor at Aalborg University’s International Center for the Cultural Psychology of Creativity in Denmark.

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I Designed For Donald Trump. I Wouldn’t Do It Again

“Under no circumstances would I do a job for Trump today,” Milton Glaser, the legendary designer of I ♥ New York, says.

At Milton Glaser’s Manhattan studio, his most famous projects are strewn about on casual display—buttons and mugs read I ♥ NY, Brooklyn Brewery six-packs dot the space, and surely, a New York magazine cover must be floating about, which he founded just a few floors above where he sits today.

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“Ban Guns”: The Two Words The Gun Control Movement Will Never Say, But Should

Why do gun control groups focus on moderate proposals instead of advocating radical solutions?

In the 1970s and 1980s, two prominent advocacy groups in the gun control movement were called Handgun Control and the National Coalition to Ban Handguns. Today, these groups are still major voices on the issue, but their names—as well as those of every other major organization involved in the issue—don’t anymore refer to banning or controlling guns. They are the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. Other groups include Everytown for Gun Safety and Americans for Responsible Solutions.

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YouTube Stars Form New Guild To Give Creators A Stronger Voice

One of YouTube’s most popular creators, Hank Green, launched the nonprofit to actively promote the interests of online video makers.

Last year, when YouTube launched YouTube Red, its premium subscription service for ad-free music, videos, and exclusive original shows, many of the millions of content creators who post videos on the site were confused about how the new product would impact them. YouTube pays video owners by sharing ad revenue with them. When the ads disappeared, how would “YouTubers” get paid? And would they be paid anything at all during the free trial period?

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Instacart Is Testing A Pickup-Only Option

The grocery delivery company is offering some of its partners software without manpower.

Since its launch in 2012, Instacart has continually evolved its grocery delivery service. In the beginning, CEO Apoorva Mehta made deliveries via Uber. Then an independent fleet of couriers shopped for the items on customers’ lists and delivered them using their own vehicles. Eventually, in-store Instacart employees handed deliveries off to couriers. And now, in the latest iteration, Instacart is piloting an option in a handful of stores that involves no delivery and no Instacart workers.

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