It’s not just unemployment that matters. Many full-time workers take home less money, after inflation, than in decades.
Because most everything we buy gets more expensive over time, we have to earn more money each year just to maintain our existing standard of living. When we’re not given raises that keep up with this rate of inflation, we’re effectively suffering a pay cut.
Hyperlocal produce, right under your feet.
Deep below the streets of London, something is growing in tunnels that once kept people safe from World War II bombs. One hint: It’s leafy.
Benjamin Hubert helped this cancer charity design a more effective, more humble charity box.
In Britain, Maggie’s is a nonprofit charity aimed at giving cancer patients support, information, and advice. It was named after Maggie Keswick Jencks, the wife of architectural critic Charles Jencks, and as such, it’s got a deep bench of designers who have worked with the charity, including Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, and Thomas Heatherwick.
We spoke to Hasbro’s Star Wars design director to discover how the most anticipated toy line of all time is created.
When I was a kid growing up, Christmas day meant one thing: more Star Wars toys. I couldn’t get enough of those beloved 3 and 3/4-inch Kenner action figures. Luke Skywalker in Jedi Knight Outfit, Han Solo in Hoth Gear, and my favorite, the yellow and green alien Amanaman, just because he looked so weird. And I wasn’t alone in my love. Matter of fact, the first line of Star Wars action figures produced by Kenner (since acquired by Hasbro) between 1978 and 1985 sold 300 million units and brought in £3.8 billion in revenue. That’s astounding considering the six films to date have brought in only a little more–just over $4 billion at the box office. And when Hasbro relaunched the Star Wars action figure line again in 1995, sales of its figures took in an additional $5.5 billion over the next 16 years.
Investors in the Series B funding round include Institutional Venture Partners, John Legend, Google Ventures, and Magic Johnson.
Walker & Company Brands, the health and beauty startup founded by entrepreneur Tristan Walker, announced today a $24 million Series B funding round and a deal to distribute its Bevel shaving system in select Target stores, as well as through the retailer’s website.
Not quite Minority Report, but monitoring everything from weather to Twitter may be able to predict where and when crime will occur.
“No doubt the precogs have already seen this,” says Chief John Anderton (played by Tom Cruise), head of Washington, DC’s experimental “Precrime” crime-prediction department in Minority Report, the 2002 Steven Spielberg movie based on Philip K. Dick’s 1956 short story (which is also now a new Fox TV series).
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