Disability Why immigrants with disabilities are one of the most “invisible” populationsQuartz - Kenny FriesSince the 2016 US presidential election, many of my non-disabled American friends often blithely talk about leaving the country and settling elsewhere. Often, I read Facebook posts about their intentions
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Tarragon A herbal wine punch recipe for spring: Germany's maibowleQuartz - Annaliese GriffinRecently I went to a dinner party where the hosts had prepared a pitcher full of delicious cocktails ahead of time, which struck me as the height of graciousness. It’s a move I fully intended to replicate.
Ravens Were ravens flying above the Notre Dame fire? We ask the expertsQuartz - Lila MacLellanRavens are beguiling birds, as striking in appearance as they are sharp and tricky. In the psyche, they retain “an aura of the uncanny,” says Taschen’s encyclopedia of archetypal images, The Book of Symbols
Uber Uber secures much-needed $1 billion investment for self-driving cars unitQuartz - Alison GriswoldUber has raised a fresh $1 billion for its driverless cars business from three Japanese investors: Softbank’s Vision Fund, Toyota, and auto-parts maker Denso. The financing establishes Uber’s self-driving
Ancestry.com Inc. TV ad romanticizes a slavery-era interracial coupleQuartz - Sangeeta Singh-KurtzIn a misty pre-dawn scene in a town in America’s Deep South in the 19th century, a breathless white man offers a wedding ring to his (presumably enslaved) black love interest. “Abigail,” he says. “We escape,
IPOs Jumia IPO: payments, logistics fuel losses for e-commerce pioneerQuartz - Yomi KazeemAfter a billion-dollar landmark initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange, what comes next? For Jumia, the largest e-commerce operator in Africa, it’ll be even more work. With e-commerce
Aging The problem with how demographers evaluate the aging populationQuartz - Warren SandersonIn 1950, men and women at age 65 could expect to live about 11 years more on average. Today, that number has gone up to 17, and the United Nations forecasts that it will increase by about five more years
Mueller Report Scribd taking down the Mueller Report is what EU Article 13 looks likeQuartz - David Yanofsky• Scribd admits there’s no way to making an automated system that is 100% correct all the time… • …has decided that it’s too popular a service to have humans vet its algorithms decisions, and… • …will
Drama Should I get involved with drama at work?Quartz - Sarah ToddPeople love drama. Spectators delight when Real Housewives fight over who said what, when vegan YouTube stars are caught in the scandalous act of eating fish, and when hip-hop celebrities feud. But if
Yoweri Museveni Egypt's Sisi, Uganda's Museveni extend rule unlike Sudan, AlgeriaQuartz - Yomi KazeemEgypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni have had a good week by recent standards for African strongmen leaders. Sisi, who first took office in 2014, could now rule Egypt until 2030 after
Microsoft Microsoft staff are openly questioning the value of diversityQuartz - Dave GershgornSome Microsoft employees are openly questioning whether diversity is important, in a lengthy discussion on an internal online messaging board meant for communicating with CEO Satya Nadella. Two posts the
Serena Williams Serena Williams' Serena Ventures backs AndelaQuartz - Yomi KazeemAndela, the developer training and outsourcing company with operations in four African countries, already has a high-powered roll call of investors including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and a former
Aidy Bryant Why novelist Sally Rooney is afraid she'll never write againQuartz - Sarah ToddAt just 28 years old, Sally Rooney is already the author of two critically acclaimed novels—and she thinks it’s possible she’ll never write another book. That would be sad, the Irish writer acknowledged
Finance Firms that finance the pot industry shouldn’t be drug testing employeesQuartz - Ephrat LivniThere’s nothing like a growth industry to excite investors and financiers. Just look at the cannabis business, which is expected to generate hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide in the coming years
Meditation "Tap In" is a new app for live meditation at workQuartz - Lila MacLellanEvery weekday, just before 3 pm, my phone buzzes with a notification to “tap in” or “check in” or “breathe together.” Most days, I obey. I look for a comfortable place to sit, preferably stepping away
Adidas Adidas’s recyclable Futurecraft.Loop sneaker took years to executeQuartz - Marc BainAdidas’s new Futurecraft.Loop sneaker claims to have achieved a holy grail of sorts for the fashion and footwear industries. For years these businesses have been talking about finding ways to “close the
Women's News Into their 30s, men get way more money from their parents than womenQuartz - Jenny AndersonThree-quarters of young adults say becoming financially independent from their parents is a key sign of becoming an adult. On this front, they appear to be failing. According to a new report from Merrill
China China’s Grove startup could grow up to be the BYD of fuel-cell carsQuartz - Echo HuangChina’s next big thing in electric vehicles could be fuel-cell cars—and the Shanghai Auto Show offered clues to one Chinese firm that might become a symbol of the industry. Grove Hydrogen Automotive, fuel-cell
Stroke victims could be put at risk by a close-knit familyQuartz - Oliver StaleyIsolation is bad for your health. Men and women who live alone are at higher risk for heart attacks, and loneliness is linked to a range of illnesses, from depression to diabetes to Alzheimer’s disease.
Military History Japan's World War II poster propaganda against Britain in IndiaQuartz - Ananya BhattacharyaAgainst a blood-splattered background, a brown, turbaned man is shown with his forefinger outstretched, angrily pointing, almost out of the poster and at the viewer. Upon closer examination, the gory background
South Delhi Lodhi Colony Delhi is India's first public art districtQuartz - Sangeeta TanwarWalls in the quiet, leafy lanes of Lodhi Colony have suddenly come alive. After sequestering private compounds from each other—and from non-residents—for years, they are now bringing people in Delhi and
Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu's first transgender woman candidate in election 2019Quartz - Annalisa MerelliOn April 16, the last day of campaigning before Tamil Nadu voted on April 18, one of the candidates spent the morning in capital city Chennai’s famous Kapaleeshwarar temple, greeting devotees and distributing
Business (India) India bans TikTok over porn, but not Facebook, Twitter, InstagramQuartz - Ananya BhattacharyaTikTok is in some serious trouble in India. Though it isn’t the only one battling a rising tide of porn, violence, and fake news, the country’s courts have singled out the Chinese video-sharing app for
Robert Mueller All 488 pages of the Mueller report, visualizedQuartz - Amanda ShendrukUS attorney general William Barr released special counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report today. It details his team’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. The
Robert Mueller The Mueller report has two spaces after every sentenceQuartz - Natasha FrostThere’s a scandal in the 446 pages of the special counsel’s report on interference in the 2016 US presidential elections—and it has nothing to do with Russia. Instead, it’s of the typographical kind: a
Lyft Zoom, a video-conferencing company, soars 72% at closingQuartz - Michelle ChengZoom, the developer of video conferencing software, is now a public company. Shares soared over 80% in its public debut today. Shares, which began trading at $65 a piece, closed at $62, up 72.2% from price
Robert Mueller What now? How House Democrats may act on the Mueller reportQuartz - Ana Campoy“Game over” US president Donald Trump tweeted today after attorney general William Barr told Americans that the special counsel report he was about to release concluded that Trump’s presidential campaign
Happiness Zoom stock soars over 70% on trading debutQuartz - Michelle Cheng“Life is all about the pursuit of happiness. The greatest, most sustainable happiness comes from making others happy. Delivering happiness is what we do at Zoom,” notes Zoom founder and CEO Eric S. Yuan
