Join the Black Friday madness and feel good about where your money is going.
This Black Friday, as other retailers trip over themselves to offer the cheapest products to frenzied mobs, the online clothing company Everlane is taking a different approach. Nothing will be on sale—the clothes will sell for what the company considers a fair value—and all of the profits will go directly to help the workers who sew T-shirts in the company’s L.A. factory.
Patrick Awuah, a 2015 MacArthur Fellow, founded a university to educate Africa’s future leaders. He also plays Words With Friends.
In September, the MacArthur Foundation awarded Patrick Awuah one of its “genius” fellowships for his work bringing higher education to Ghana. After attending college in the U.S. and working for Microsoft as an engineer, Awuah returned to his home country in 2002 to found Asheshi University in Accra. Since that time it’s been established as one of Ghana’s top-notch universities, with programming that focuses on battling corruption in Ghana while addressing gender, ethnic, and economic inequality.
Work and parenting are rarely separate in the life of Austin Film Festival founder Barbara Morgan.
Just after the birth of her daughter, Barbara Morgan held a staff meeting in the maternity ward. The hospital wasn’t happy about it, and others may have questioned it later, but Morgan didn’t care.
Researchers now believe there are three different kinds of type 2 diabetes—a result discovered with help from machines combing through reams of medical data.
With the cost to sequence a human genome dropping by the day and medical records finally going digital, public health experts are excited for a new era of personalized, or “precision,” medicine—a big data future in which there is no “average” patient, only individual patients with unique genes, environments, and lifestyles. As a measure of this excitement, this year, President Obama launched a $215 million initiative that will create a health database from 1 million volunteers that is unprecedented in detail. Breakthroughs in prevention, understanding, and treatment of disease are hoped.
Get beyond Ikea, and make your own projects like a pro.
If you’re convinced that you’re not capable of building anything more complicated than a bookcase from Ikea—and possibly not even that—a new startup was created to prove you wrong.
The open-source lab in Copenhagen will help Ikea come up with the catalog of 2026, not 2016.
Ikea usually keeps a close lid on what it is working on next. But with Space10, an innovation lab recently opened in Copenhagen’s hip meatpacking district, Ikea is looking to change all that. The Swedish furniture giant is throwing the doors wide open to progressive thinkers who want to help solve the next couple decades’ biggest home design problems, all on Ikea’s dime.
There is still a lot of small-scale thinking in the train world. Andreas Vogler wants to change that.
It’s well-documented that the United Kingdom’s trains are overcrowded. Some regional lines are as much as 86% over capacity. Congestion plagues train systems all over the world from San Francisco to New York to Mumbai. The solution isn’t as easy as putting more of the same trains into commission; it’s about future-proofing the trains that come next.
The Iris Lens will definitely up your iPhone camera game, but the best part might be the clever mounting system that slides over your case.
A popular saying among photographers is “the best camera is the one you have with you.” For most people, that will almost always be a smartphone camera. For more serious photographers, there’s an array of attachable lenses that will transform that ever-handy camera into something closer to a professional one (Moment and Olloclip lenses are the most popular). But here’s the problem: those lenses almost always require either a special iPhone case or no case at all.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the successful launch and landing of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.
Between Boeing, Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Xcor, and Blue Origin, the private space race is fully underway—and it appears that Jeff Bezos’s space company, Blue Origin, is finally making some headway. After much speculation as to how far along in the development process the company’s line of rockets was, Bezos announced today the successful launch and landing of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket on Monday.
After a successful rocket test, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos tweeted the good news—but SpaceX CEO Elon Musk had a few things to add.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday morning sent his very first tweet, which announced the successful launch and landing of a New Shepard rocket built by Bezos’s space company, Blue Origin.
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