News These 5 American mountain towns want tourists to be more responsible when they visitFast Company - Melissa LockerTourism pledges are all the rage these days, with countries like Palau, Iceland, and New Zealand, and destinations like Big Sur and Hawaii, all asking tourists to stop and think about the place they are
News This weekend’s heat wave is serious: Here’s how the CDC says to deal with itFast Company - Melissa LockerAn estimated 185 million people are under a heat advisory this weekend as a massive heat wave bears down on the East Coast and Midwest. They aren’t alone. According to CNN, “more than 85% of the lower
McDonald's McDonald’s might make Happy Meals a little happier, and not because of ‘The Lion King’Fast Company - Melissa LockerMcDonald’s wants people who order Happy Meals to be happy. It’s right there in the name, after all. So when the fast food chain got wind of a petition by two potential Happy Meal customers asking it to
Technology What happened when Congress looked into data brokers almost 50 years agoFast Company - Steven MelendezIn 1970, a House subcommittee held hearings on the privacy consequences of advertising mailing lists and the sometimes shadowy brokers who traded in them. In a public hearing, a Congressman weighed in
Play buttonLego This fan-made, stop-motion ‘The Shining’ took 60 hours and 10,000 LEGOs to createFast Company - Joe BerkowitzAll work and no play makes this LEGO ‘Shining’ a bloody delight. It’s sort of the anti-Toy Story. Since 2017, Wim Laroy has devoted himself to re-creating horror movies with the things he used to play
Moon NASA almost forgot to take a flag to the MoonFast Company - Charles FishmanCelebrating the achievement of landing on the lunar surface was a very late addition to the space agency’s to-do list. This is the 49th in an exclusive series of 50 articles, one published each day until
News Your anti-aging regimen might be toxic. This brand found a safe alternativeFast Company - Elizabeth SegranHow much are you willing to sacrifice for younger-looking skin? Beautycounter, a six-year-old company focused on developing nontoxic cosmetics, has spent three years finding an alternative to retinol,
Play buttonKyoto Animation After a deadly fire, here’s how you can support Kyoto AnimationFast Company - Joe BerkowitzThe tragic arson attack at Kyoto Animation in Japan left 33 people dead and even more wounded. One way to help the studio in its darkest hour is to support its work. Here are KyoAni’s most famous titles
Play buttonKyoto Animation After a deadly fire, here’s how you can support Kyoto AnimationFast Company - Joe BerkowitzThe tragic arson at Kyoto Animation in Japan left 33 people dead and even more wounded. One way to help the studio in its darkest hour is to support its work. Here are KyoAni’s most famous titles and you
Innovation Inside the effort to map the world’s dying coral reefs from spaceFast Company - Eillie AnzilottiThe Allen Coral Atlas is building out a database—fed with satellite imagery—that can detect changes in coral reefs and hopefully help us better manage this dwindling natural resource. Off the east coast
Leadership What companies should do with the office mansplainerFast Company - Anisa Purbasari HortonIn 2008, author Rebecca Solnit’s now famous essay, Men Explain Things to Me, set off a firestorm. Though Solnit didn’t use the term “mansplaining,” the essay is credited with birthing the term that’s part
Play buttonSign Language This grocery store is teaching its customers sign languageFast Company - Jeff BeerSam Book works at a Sainsbury’s superstore in Bath, England, and is hearing-impaired. When the U.K. supermarket chain announced an initiative giving employees the opportunity to volunteer for a cause feel
Play buttonSign Language This grocery store is teaching its customers sign languageFast Company - Jeff BeerSam Book works at a Sainsbury’s superstore in Bath, England, and is hearing impaired. When the UK supermarket chain announced an initiative giving employees the opportunity to volunteer for a cause they
Design This fascinating graph shows how life in America has changed since 2003Fast Company - Mark WilsonAll of us still sleep. But over the last 15 years, the way Americans spend the rest of their time has changed significantly. You can explore how in a new interactive timeline by FlowingData, which visualizes
Lyft This Lyft executive shares their secret recipe for keeping customers and drivers happyFast Company - Lydia DishmanMary Winfield says good customer service is just like cooking. You need to start with a solid recipe and tweak to make it your own. For people like me who are serious about cooking, the ultimate marker
Instagram Instagram’s new warning to hateful trolls: ‘Your account may be deleted’Fast Company - Melissa LockerInstagram is making another change as it strives for a kinder, gentler version of itself. Yesterday, it rolled out a new policy that could mean a lot more problematic accounts will be disabled. Under existing
Design The quest to bring urinal culture to womenFast Company - Elizabeth SegranLadies, have you ever wanted to have a face-to-face conversation with your bathroom mate? You may not realize it, but many designers are on a quest to create a women’s urinal. After all, how can the sexes
Leadership My scarcity mind-set actually helped me become a millionaireFast Company - Anisa Purbasari HortonFinancial experts view scarcity mind-set as being a hindrance to building wealth, but for this author, it equipped her with the habits to do so. When it comes to money and mind-set, it seems like many
Area 51 If the Area 51 raid happens, Bud Light promises to be its official beerFast Company - Jeff BeerOf course, Bud Light needs 51,000 retweets first, thus proving that absolutely anything is a brand opportunity. The news and social media buzz around the “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All Of Us” event
Innovation This podcast gives voice to working moms of all kinds—including sex workersFast Company - Rina RaphaelFrom political candidates to punk rockers, “The Double Shift” reflects the wide range of working mothers fighting for equality and work-life balance. Founder and host Katherine Goldstein explains her for
Play buttonRobotics Sorry Wall-E, this is now the world’s cutest robotFast Company - Mark WilsonBut it’s not just totes adorbs. This robot may one day save your life. Stand aside Wall-E. Keep quiet, R2D2. There is a new, world’s most adorable robot. It’s a mere two millimeters long–about the same
Leadership Men must take an active role in closing the gender gap in corporate leadershipFast Company - Julia HerbstAs a candidate for partner at PwC, I was paired with a senior male leader. This is how the sponsorship experience helped advance my career. A recent report from LeanIn.org and Survey Monkey found that
Leadership What mountain climbing expeditions tell us about teamworkFast Company - johnoswaldA new study mines decades of mountaineering data to measure how groupthink fares against top-down leadership. In principle, the mountaineer’s work is simple: “To win the game he has first to reach the
Leadership How to submit contributed stories to Fast Company and tips on getting publishedFast Company - Fast Company StaffWant to share your views with Fast Company readers? Here’s how to submit articles for consideration and details on what we look for. Fast Company‘s Work Life section (formerly known as Leadership) selectively
Innovation The rewilding: why wolves and bears are returning to EuropeFast Company - Morgan ClendanielAs farmland and villages are abandoned across the continent, forests are taking over. Rewilding means bringing back the species and habitats that have disappeared from a region. Initially, conservationists
Play buttonDesign Thinking This cozy apartment can be dropped onto existing buildings, and it only costs $11KFast Company - Mark WilsonWhen you think of a tiny house, you likely think of something like Walden—living amongst nature in spartan accommodations. But there’s plenty of room for tiny homes in cities around the world, if you their
Leadership 4 common ways coworkers hurt your productivity, and what you can do about itFast Company - Stephanie VozzaIdentifying these common pitfalls can help increase your own productivity. It’s frustrating when a coworker misses a deadline or doesn’t hand off critical information you need to get your work done. It’s
Play buttonDeepfakes Criminals are using deepfakes to impersonate CEOsFast Company - Michael Grothaus“Deepfakes” refers to media that has been altered by artificial intelligence to make it appear that a person is doing or saying something that, in fact, that person has never done or said. The technology
Design The best camping gear for people who hate campingFast Company - Katharine SchwabThese things will help make being in the great outdoors a bit more bearable. I’m not a camper. I’m not one to sacrifice a hot shower or a comfortable bed just to spend time outside. But with the beautiful
News 22 ways that climate change may ruin your summerFast Company - Melissa LockerIf the swiftly melting, swiftly heating planet isn’t enough to get you doing everything you can to fight the world’s climate emergency, perhaps this will inspire you to act: Climate change could, like,
News These 5 American mountain towns want tourists to be more responsible when they visitFast Company - Melissa LockerTourism pledges are all the rage these days, with countries like Palau, Iceland, and New Zealand, and destinations like Big Sur and Hawaii, all asking tourists to stop and think about the place they are
News This weekend’s heat wave is serious: Here’s how the CDC says to deal with itFast Company - Melissa LockerAn estimated 185 million people are under a heat advisory this weekend as a massive heat wave bears down on the East Coast and Midwest. They aren’t alone. According to CNN, “more than 85% of the lower
McDonald's McDonald’s might make Happy Meals a little happier, and not because of ‘The Lion King’Fast Company - Melissa LockerMcDonald’s wants people who order Happy Meals to be happy. It’s right there in the name, after all. So when the fast food chain got wind of a petition by two potential Happy Meal customers asking it to
Technology What happened when Congress looked into data brokers almost 50 years agoFast Company - Steven MelendezIn 1970, a House subcommittee held hearings on the privacy consequences of advertising mailing lists and the sometimes shadowy brokers who traded in them. In a public hearing, a Congressman weighed in
Play buttonLego This fan-made, stop-motion ‘The Shining’ took 60 hours and 10,000 LEGOs to createFast Company - Joe BerkowitzAll work and no play makes this LEGO ‘Shining’ a bloody delight. It’s sort of the anti-Toy Story. Since 2017, Wim Laroy has devoted himself to re-creating horror movies with the things he used to play
Moon NASA almost forgot to take a flag to the MoonFast Company - Charles FishmanCelebrating the achievement of landing on the lunar surface was a very late addition to the space agency’s to-do list. This is the 49th in an exclusive series of 50 articles, one published each day until
News Your anti-aging regimen might be toxic. This brand found a safe alternativeFast Company - Elizabeth SegranHow much are you willing to sacrifice for younger-looking skin? Beautycounter, a six-year-old company focused on developing nontoxic cosmetics, has spent three years finding an alternative to retinol,
Play buttonKyoto Animation After a deadly fire, here’s how you can support Kyoto AnimationFast Company - Joe BerkowitzThe tragic arson attack at Kyoto Animation in Japan left 33 people dead and even more wounded. One way to help the studio in its darkest hour is to support its work. Here are KyoAni’s most famous titles
Play buttonKyoto Animation After a deadly fire, here’s how you can support Kyoto AnimationFast Company - Joe BerkowitzThe tragic arson at Kyoto Animation in Japan left 33 people dead and even more wounded. One way to help the studio in its darkest hour is to support its work. Here are KyoAni’s most famous titles and you
Innovation Inside the effort to map the world’s dying coral reefs from spaceFast Company - Eillie AnzilottiThe Allen Coral Atlas is building out a database—fed with satellite imagery—that can detect changes in coral reefs and hopefully help us better manage this dwindling natural resource. Off the east coast
Leadership What companies should do with the office mansplainerFast Company - Anisa Purbasari HortonIn 2008, author Rebecca Solnit’s now famous essay, Men Explain Things to Me, set off a firestorm. Though Solnit didn’t use the term “mansplaining,” the essay is credited with birthing the term that’s part
Play buttonSign Language This grocery store is teaching its customers sign languageFast Company - Jeff BeerSam Book works at a Sainsbury’s superstore in Bath, England, and is hearing-impaired. When the U.K. supermarket chain announced an initiative giving employees the opportunity to volunteer for a cause feel
Play buttonSign Language This grocery store is teaching its customers sign languageFast Company - Jeff BeerSam Book works at a Sainsbury’s superstore in Bath, England, and is hearing impaired. When the UK supermarket chain announced an initiative giving employees the opportunity to volunteer for a cause they
Design This fascinating graph shows how life in America has changed since 2003Fast Company - Mark WilsonAll of us still sleep. But over the last 15 years, the way Americans spend the rest of their time has changed significantly. You can explore how in a new interactive timeline by FlowingData, which visualizes
Lyft This Lyft executive shares their secret recipe for keeping customers and drivers happyFast Company - Lydia DishmanMary Winfield says good customer service is just like cooking. You need to start with a solid recipe and tweak to make it your own. For people like me who are serious about cooking, the ultimate marker
Instagram Instagram’s new warning to hateful trolls: ‘Your account may be deleted’Fast Company - Melissa LockerInstagram is making another change as it strives for a kinder, gentler version of itself. Yesterday, it rolled out a new policy that could mean a lot more problematic accounts will be disabled. Under existing
Design The quest to bring urinal culture to womenFast Company - Elizabeth SegranLadies, have you ever wanted to have a face-to-face conversation with your bathroom mate? You may not realize it, but many designers are on a quest to create a women’s urinal. After all, how can the sexes
Leadership My scarcity mind-set actually helped me become a millionaireFast Company - Anisa Purbasari HortonFinancial experts view scarcity mind-set as being a hindrance to building wealth, but for this author, it equipped her with the habits to do so. When it comes to money and mind-set, it seems like many
Area 51 If the Area 51 raid happens, Bud Light promises to be its official beerFast Company - Jeff BeerOf course, Bud Light needs 51,000 retweets first, thus proving that absolutely anything is a brand opportunity. The news and social media buzz around the “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All Of Us” event
Innovation This podcast gives voice to working moms of all kinds—including sex workersFast Company - Rina RaphaelFrom political candidates to punk rockers, “The Double Shift” reflects the wide range of working mothers fighting for equality and work-life balance. Founder and host Katherine Goldstein explains her for
Play buttonRobotics Sorry Wall-E, this is now the world’s cutest robotFast Company - Mark WilsonBut it’s not just totes adorbs. This robot may one day save your life. Stand aside Wall-E. Keep quiet, R2D2. There is a new, world’s most adorable robot. It’s a mere two millimeters long–about the same
Leadership Men must take an active role in closing the gender gap in corporate leadershipFast Company - Julia HerbstAs a candidate for partner at PwC, I was paired with a senior male leader. This is how the sponsorship experience helped advance my career. A recent report from LeanIn.org and Survey Monkey found that
Leadership What mountain climbing expeditions tell us about teamworkFast Company - johnoswaldA new study mines decades of mountaineering data to measure how groupthink fares against top-down leadership. In principle, the mountaineer’s work is simple: “To win the game he has first to reach the
Leadership How to submit contributed stories to Fast Company and tips on getting publishedFast Company - Fast Company StaffWant to share your views with Fast Company readers? Here’s how to submit articles for consideration and details on what we look for. Fast Company‘s Work Life section (formerly known as Leadership) selectively
Innovation The rewilding: why wolves and bears are returning to EuropeFast Company - Morgan ClendanielAs farmland and villages are abandoned across the continent, forests are taking over. Rewilding means bringing back the species and habitats that have disappeared from a region. Initially, conservationists
Play buttonDesign Thinking This cozy apartment can be dropped onto existing buildings, and it only costs $11KFast Company - Mark WilsonWhen you think of a tiny house, you likely think of something like Walden—living amongst nature in spartan accommodations. But there’s plenty of room for tiny homes in cities around the world, if you their
Leadership 4 common ways coworkers hurt your productivity, and what you can do about itFast Company - Stephanie VozzaIdentifying these common pitfalls can help increase your own productivity. It’s frustrating when a coworker misses a deadline or doesn’t hand off critical information you need to get your work done. It’s
Play buttonDeepfakes Criminals are using deepfakes to impersonate CEOsFast Company - Michael Grothaus“Deepfakes” refers to media that has been altered by artificial intelligence to make it appear that a person is doing or saying something that, in fact, that person has never done or said. The technology
Design The best camping gear for people who hate campingFast Company - Katharine SchwabThese things will help make being in the great outdoors a bit more bearable. I’m not a camper. I’m not one to sacrifice a hot shower or a comfortable bed just to spend time outside. But with the beautiful
News 22 ways that climate change may ruin your summerFast Company - Melissa LockerIf the swiftly melting, swiftly heating planet isn’t enough to get you doing everything you can to fight the world’s climate emergency, perhaps this will inspire you to act: Climate change could, like,
