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Telephone culture is disappearing. Source: Why Doesn’t Anyone Answer the Phone Anymore? – The Atlantic
“I felt as though I were communing directly with a plant for the first time.” Source: Michael Pollan on What It’s Like to Trip on Mushrooms – The Atlantic
Call it the burger lover’s dilemma: we know deep down that it’s awful for the planet, but the beef patty tastes so damn good. Source: Should We Have a Meat Tax? – MIT Technology Review
Wind energy is booming, making maintenance work on turbines one of the fastest-growing jobs in the US. Source: Job of the future: Wind farmer – MIT Technology Review
What makes people happy? A huge database is making it possible to discern the answer at last. Source: 100,000 happy moments – MIT Technology Review
Google Maps and Airbnb both announced new services this week that aim to make life easier for people with mobility challenges. Source: Big tech firms are helping disabled people better navigate the real world – MIT Technology Review
The woman organizing our messy digital lives to survive us. Source: Job of the future: Embalming your online persona – MIT Technology Review
In 2016, there were over 96,000 cases of tick- and mosquito-borne diseases reported to the CDC, a huge jump after more than a decade of increasing numbers. Source: CDC: Tick and mosquitoborne diseases like Lyme tripled in the US in just 13 years — Quartz
English craftsmen from House Box in Somerset are acquiring horse boxes and converting them into luxury mobile home accommodation Source: Craftsmen are converting horse boxes into luxury mobile homes
With the rise of community living and workcations, an alternative might be to just sleep where you cowork. Source: In Pod-Based Community Living, Rent Is Cheap, But Sex Is Banned – Motherboard
Do you dare co-sleep in your co-working space? Source: PodShare is not a cult, but it is weird | The Daily Dot
America’s most popular piece of exercise equipment has dark origins. Source: Treadmills were meant to be atonement machines — Quartzy
Music fans and meditators know that feeling connected to ourselves feels great. We can train our brains to feel that good without music. Source: Neuroscience shows how dance music and meditation have similar effects — Quartzy
A review of nearly 15 million words from CSR reports of Gazprom, Exxon, BP, Sinopec, Norsk, and others. Source: Corporate social responsibility reports show oil companies becoming passive about climate change, say linguists — Quartz
Klein, a new company led by designer Soren Rose, aims to sell affordable cabins and guest houses by big-name designers. Source: This startup wants to disrupt vacation homeownership
Anthropologist David Graeber’s new book accuses the global economy of churning out meaningless jobs that are killing the human spirit. Source: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber Review – Bloomberg
Can the buzzy low-carb, high-fat diet really help with Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, and memory loss? Source: Can the Keto Diet Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, or Other Brain Conditions?
Living outside changes you. When environmental illness left me too sick to stay in my high-rise, I turned to nature to heal Source: Environmental illness made me too sick to live inside | Aeon Essays
The science-unfriendly EPA could make finding pollutant sources more challenging. Source: Gains in reducing America’s smog problem have hit a dramatic slowdown
It takes more than a can-do attitude and a laptop to be a digital nomad. Source: How to be a digital nomad? Some privilege helps — Quartzy
Americans pay the second-lowest price for gasoline among major world economies. Source: Americans pay the second-lowest price for gasoline among major world economies — Quartz
Traditional Q&A, evidence suggests, is a poor interview tactic. But does the alternative need to be this extreme? Source: Ericsson put its new head of innovation through a very odd job interview — Quartz at Work
“From the outside, the glass volume reflects the surrounding landscape and becomes part of it,” the architects said. “From the inside the windows become invisible giving the impression of… Source: Rural Italian home clad in lush greenery blends into its idyllic surroundings | Inhabitat – Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building
A single session of meditation can lower your anxiety levels, a small new study finds. Source: Meditation can ease anxiety with as little as one session
There’s no better way to experience a sky full of stars or the midnight sun than in a transparent bubble hotel. Source: Sleep Under the Stars in These 10 Bubble Hotels | Travel Channel
As a post-antibiotic future beckons, how can humanity protect itself against the proliferation of superbugs? Research suggests ‘drug sanctuaries’ in hospitals could be a promising solution. Source: ‘Drug sanctuaries’ offer hope for a post-antibiotic world
Now on its third season, Showtime’s dramedy “Billions” masterfully captures the changing dress codes of the finance world. Source: How to Dress Like a Billionaire – WSJ
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