The decline in gas prices follows an increase of about 50 cents reported a week earlier
Read More Global market plunge intensifies on fears over China
World stock markets plunged on Monday after China’s main index sank 8.5 percent
Read More Floating Above London, This Invisible Pool Lets You Swim Laps In The Sky
The Embassy Gardens’ sky pool is made of aquarium glass to look like an overpass of water that stretches between two towers.
Infinity pools are lame. Sky pools that stretch between buildings like transparent overpasses of water? Infinitely cooler.
Like A Living Cabinet Of Curiosities, This Enchanting Installation Brings Insects To Life
Created for the London Design Festival, the Curiosity Cloud is made up of 250 hand-fabricated insects that fly around in glass bulbs when visitors approach.
The Austrian designers mischer’traxler are masters at marrying craft and technology in enchanting ways, as we’ve seen with their self-weaving, attention-craving basket and machine-weaved furniture that records the passing time. Now, the duo has hand made 250 tiny fabric insects and equipped them with motors and sensors for Curiosity Cloud, a new installation for London’s Design Festival.
Why Tig Notaro’s HBO Special Is Unlike Any Comedy Special You’ve Ever Seen
The comedian talks about her path to the playful, glib, and ultimately life-affirming HBO special everyone will be talking about.
“I’m just a person,” comedian Tig Notaro says multiple times during her new HBO special. It’s both a deflection of incoming applause and a direct rebuke to peers who clearly relish soaking up those standing-Os. But here’s the thing: Tig Notaro is more than just a person. She’s both a living legend and someone advanced enough to hate that designation and seek to explode it.
Another Mad World For “Gears Of War,” VW Loves Punctuation: The Top 5 Ads Of The Week
Apple Music pitches personality, Foot Locker gets awkward for NFL season, the Manning brothers regulate Gatorade sales.
Back in 2006, Xbox dropped a big ol’ emo ad bomb on the gaming world with the launch of Gears of War. Instead of the usual, testosterone-soaked soundtrack, the music backdropping scenes from the sci-fi shooter game was Gary Jules and Michael Andrews’ cover of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World.” It was considered a milestone in video game marketing and ushered in the now-familiar trend of pairing game action with music that tugs the heartstrings over the trigger finger.
This Short Film Is For Every New Yorker Who’s Almost Fallen In Love On The Subway
Every moment of too-hot, late-making, subway frustration is actually a love connection waiting to happen in this sweet, surreal video.
The New York subway is a magical steel caterpillar that takes riders anywhere they want to go in the city. Except when it doesn’t, which is gallingly often. (Or maybe it just seems that way in Co.Create’s memory. Hard to remember every instance it runs perfectly.) Adrift in the immediacy that is the city’s stock in trade, New Yorkers have a tendency to laser-focus on the frustration of the moment—to the exclusion of all else. A whimsical new video suggests that by doing so we may be just missing our soulmates on every commute.
The Adorable Tiny Dancer In This Insurance Ad Will Absolutely Make Your Day
John Lewis does it again, and it’s not even Christmas.
By now we’re used to being impressed, and sometimes weepy, by the advertising of U.K. retailer John Lewis, thanks to ad classics like Monty the Penguin and “The Bear & The Hare.”
Sorry, People, We’ve Already Used Up Our Entire Ecological Budget For The Year
If the Earth’s resources were on a balance sheet, we’d already be in the red.
There’s still four and a half months to go in 2015, yet we’ve already used up our ecological budget for the year. Earth Overshoot Day—the point at which human demand exceeds the limits of what the planet can regenerate—fell on August 13.
Robots Are Coming to Take Your McJobs
As food and labor costs rise in the restaurant industry, some businesses are looking for technological solutions to the annoying problem of expensive humans.
A $15-per-hour minimum wage might not lead to armies of content, sufficiently compensated fast food workers. It may instead lead to fewer employees, as bottom-line-obsessed companies move more quickly to replace “expensive” labor with tireless robots. And rising labor costs aren’t the only things getting more expensive for restaurants—wholesale food and real estate prices are also shooting up, says the Washington Post.
