Gender equality could mean adding trillions to the economy both in the U.S. and worldwide. Here’s what’s holding us back.
Advancing women’s equality could add $12 trillion to the global GDP by 2025. Here in the U.S., it’s between a $2.1 trillion and $4.3 trillion addition to the country’s GDP in the next decade. If every state and city made progress toward gender parity, they could add at least 5% to their own economies. Half of U.S. states can add more than 10%.
Narcissism has a wide range of characteristics. Here’s how to identify them and figure out how to deal.
Every office has a spotlight hog. The person who boasts about accomplishments, steals credit for company successes, and interrupts others with what they believe to be more important ideas. It could be your coworker or your boss, and while this person is irritating, is he or she a narcissist?
Living in a world of only Chinese apps—no Google, Facebook, Twitter!—made me appreciate how remarkable the country’s Internet actually is.
Last year, the Chinese government made me open a Yahoo account. Well, sort of. I was headed to China for the first time in four years, and I knew I would have a difficult time accessing Gmail and Google and Facebook and the numerous other sites that are blocked in China but essential to my digital life in the U.S. I asked around, and somebody told me that Astrill, one of the better-known VPNs out there, no longer worked on iPhone. The government had managed to squash it, too.
The new designs make sure pedestrians get at least 50% of the public space, lanes of traffic be damned.
Right now, the Place de la Bastille in Paris is basically a traffic island: A huge memorial sits in the middle of a road packed with cars. There’s no way to easily cross the street on foot. But that will soon change. The square is one of seven major sites that Paris is redesigning for pedestrians and cyclists.
The Instagram celebrity is helping the brand create this limited, photogenic product run for Coachella.
No one has ever, ever said, “You know what Instagram could use? More food photography.” But while your cousin Bruce has a choice whether or not to post yet another “epic” snap of his latest cheeseburger conquest, when you’re a food brand, your choices of social content are a bit more limited. In order to stay interesting, you need to get creative. To that end, Sonic decided to tailor a specific menu item to this specific social medium.
The man who brought you Objectified, Helvetica, and Urbanized is launching a company for virtual reality documentaries.
What was once a box of monolithic apps is getting broken down into discrete tasks and reimagined for a less PC-centric age.
More than a quarter of a century ago, Microsoft put a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation package, and an email client into one box and called it Microsoft Office. In doing so, it created the productivity suite as the world came to know it. And for all that’s since changed about Office, the devices it runs on, and the competitive landscape, the basic defining idea—lumping together a handful of feature-laden apps, each of which handles a different sweeping category of business tasks—has hardly changed at all.
Because you can never get enough Cookie Monster.
Cookie Monster and Siri have proved a highly marketable (and adorable) combination after Apple’s recent iPhone 6S ad featuring the dessert-loving Sesame Street character reached the top of Campaign’s viral chart, according to Business Insider.
Layoffs at the genetic testing startup affected about 25% of the company, says one well-placed source.
Counsyl, the company that offers a slew of genetic tests, made significant cuts in its product, design, sales, marketing and engineering teams, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Instead of relying on the small number of patients who go to research hospitals, doctors are recruiting huge numbers of participants online.
Nearly 40% of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes, with about 1.7 million of those cases expected in 2016 in the United States (according to the National Cancer Institute). These patients are hoping for better treatments and, hopefully someday, cures. They could also be valuable resources, helping experts develop better therapies, if only staff at research centers like Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston could study their unique cases. Even patients with the same diagnosis, such as breast cancer, have different genetic makeups, both in their healthy cells and in their tumors. These differences provide clues to new genetic factors that may cause the disease, why some patients respond especially well to certain treatments, why some tumors are so resistant to treatment, and how people of different ages or ethnicities are affected.
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