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This Diverse Lingerie Campaign Is The Best Thing You'll See All Day
Shape Magazine - By Faith Brar
Prepare to be inspired. To break social norms and to prove that inclusivity is powerful, Curvy Kate has launched a new lingerie campaign featuring …
Are You Happier Without Facebook?
Popular Science - By Jason Lederman
You may not 'like' the answer As social networks become more and more prominent in our lives, one has to wonder if we are happier being constantly connected. The Happiness Research Institute, an “independent
The Rio Olympics are $1.6 Billion over budget
Business Insider - Morgan J. Wolf
The lead-up to the Rio Olympics has been rife with problems and now we can add overspending on top of the pile of problems that the city has run into in preparing for the event. According to a report the
Advertisers are backing away from Twitter Moments
Business Insider - Robert Elder
Twitter Moments is falling out of favor with advertisers, according to a scoop from Digiday. Moments launched in October, and acts as a visual curation portal for trending news, sports and lifestyle stories
You can't explain the Iraq War without talking about oil
Business Insider - Bulent Gökay
But then again, the commander of the USCENTCOM during the Iraq War, General John Abizaid, came to see things rather differently: "Of course [the Iraq war] is about oil, we can't deny that." So what part
HANGING BY A THREAD
The Globe and Mail - Marina Strauss
After years of rapid expansion, the clothing retail market is facing a storm of change. Fast fashion retailers are flooding the market with cheap wares, fickle shoppers are holding out for discounts and
The View From Famous Landmarks
CityLab - Eillie Anzilotti
Oliver Curtis photographs the overlooked side of iconic sites. Since 2012, Oliver Curtis has visited a slew of landmarks, camera in hand: Giza, Buckingham Palace, the Colosseum, the Statue of Liberty.
An Israeli startup is using the ancient art of military deception to trap hackers everywhere
Business Insider - Paul Szoldra
That's because the firm's technology — which tracks a hacker should they make one wrong move — is steeped in the idea that deception on the battlefield can be used in the digital space. "Looking at this
These 5 tech CEOs love AI, even if it could take over the world someday
Business Insider - Seth Archer
"2001: A Space Odyssey" came out in 1968, and introduced the world to HAL 9000, a smart computer that ended up being homicidal. Evil artificial intelligence is mostly a product of science fiction so far,
Revealing the Power and Beauty of Yemeni Women
featureshoot.com - Elizabeth Sulis Gear
Frustrated by the constant questions about her experience as a woman in the Middle East, Yemeni Egyptian American photographer Yumna Al-Arashi wanted …
Come November: 5 Books to Understand the Modern World
Signature - Jennie Yabroff
It’s summer, which means beach books, blockbuster movies, and putting our brains in airplane mode for three months, right? Maybe so, but remember, fall will be here sooner than we’d like, and with it election
Gravity-Defying Shoes Hang Skyward From London Street Lamps
CityLab - John Metcalfe
Farewell, physics? Hurl shoes into the air and click that time-freezing stopwatch from The Twilight Zone, and you’ll have something akin to the bizarre, gravity-defying sneakers popping up above London’s