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Source: Advertising is a Social Experiment That for the Most Part Has Gone Wrong
Making a buck off your old goods is nice, but relationships are nicer. A new app can help. Source: Can Stuffstr become the Uber for stuff? | GreenBiz
The self-empowerment blogger and author of 16 books, including the Amazon best seller “Choose Yourself,” is an unlikely role model. Source: Why Self-Help Guru James Altucher Only Owns 15 Things – The New York Times
Takeda Pharmaceuticals, many U.S. employees can be found in jeans on a daily basis. The company relaxed its dress code last August based on feedback in a regular survey.”The new dress code was intended to provide an even more comfortable workplace where employees can do their best work, a high priority for Takeda,” says spokesman…
“Anti-sexual” trends take hold in age of countless distractions and growing job pressures. Source: ‘There isn’t really anything magical about it’: Why more millennials are avoiding sex – The Washington Post
Here’s what you should know about the ancient practice embraced by U.S. Olympic athletes Source: What Is Cupping? Here’s What You Need to Know | TIME
Source: Stop texting right now and learn from the Chinese: there’s a better way to message — Quartz
Source: The Future of News Is Not An Article | nytlabs ← Research, thoughts, and process from The New York Times R&D Lab
What‘s next on the Getty’s digital horizon. Source: A Conversation with the Getty’s New Semantic Architect | The Getty Iris
It’s cheap and ubiquitous, but it’s not resilient or durable. What are the alternatives? Source: TreeHugger
“Yes, mom, I’ll be home before midnight.” Source: 14 Portraits Of College Grads Living At Home | Co.Design | business + design
London’s first co-housing project strikes an elegant balance between communal living and leafy seclusion, writes Rowan Moore Source: Copper Lane review – an appealing, harmonious, cost-effective model for communal living | Culture | The Guardian
We’ve moved from birding to dronewatching, from natural history to dark ecology. But are we still looking through colonialist binoculars? Source: Cloud and Field: On the resurgence of “field guides” in a networked age
Source: I’m a business manager. How do I become a UX designer? | Interaction Design Foundation
We agree with REI: Nature isn’t “out there”—it’s inside all of us. And camping takes us home. #LetsCamp Source: Camping is my medicine: A love letter to the outdoors
A shadow network of patients are trying to treat their own debilitating diseases — by infecting themselves with gastrointestinal worms. Source: The Parasite Underground – The New York Times
The vibrantly yellow rhizome turmeric has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for millennia and has been implemented for its medicinal qualities in South-eastern Asia for almost 4000 years. Source: 10 Reasons Eating Daily Turmeric Could Make You Happier And Healthier – Reset.me
With ever increasing megapixel counts in smartphone cameras, do you need a dedicated camera at all? Or perhaps could you just get a really tiny compact camera? At this point in time at least, the answer is probably no. Or at least not if you really want consistently good image quality. The reason is, that…
It takes crisp photos and videos faster than you can blink. Source: Sony A6300 review: Faster than the competition and shoots sharp 4K
Ginseng: a medicinal root with a long tradition of harvesting in Appalachia. But can the plant withstand the demands of a global market? Hal Herring takes a personal look at the plants, the place a… Source: Ginseng Digging: Local Traditions and Global Markets for Appalachia’s Medicinal Plants – Cool Green Science
Source: The Therapeutic Potentials of Ayahuasca: Possible Effects against Various Diseases of Civilization
The substance, called harmine, helps regenerate pancreas cells. Source: Chemical in Ayahuasca Has Potential to Treat Diabetes
Every year, thousands of tourists head to the Peruvian Amazon to take the plant medicine ayahuasca. But what does the powerful drink actually do, and what do local shamans think of the rise in its popularity? Source: Peru’s ayahuasca industry booms as westerners search for alternative healing | Travel | The Guardian
Because modern culture doesn’t have a role for the shamanic archetype, many people who grow up outside indigenous villages are shamans — healers who have access to the spirit world — and don’t know Source: 10 Signs You’re A Healer & Don’t Know It – mindbodygreen.com
Note from the Editor, Tricia Wang: I’m very please to announce that the next contributor in the Co-designing with machines edition is Astrid Countee (@ianthro), an anthropologist, software develope… Source: An Engineering Anthropologist: Why tech companies need to hire software developers with ethnographic skills | Ethnography Matters
Note from the Editor, Tricia Wang: Next up in our Co-designing with machines edition is Madeleine Clare Elish, (@mcette), is an anthropologist and researcher at Data & Society, presents a case … Source: The future of designing autonomous systems will involve ethnographers | Ethnography Matters
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