Quartzadded this to How We'll WinBoeing 737 Max crashes: Boeing CEO admits mistakes were madeQuartz - Ephrat LivniBoeing CEO Dennis Muilenberg admitted for the first time that his company mishandled concerns over its 737 Max aircraft. Boeing’s 737 Max jets have been involved in two recent air tragedies; in October
Quartzadded this to QuartzyBenjamin Netanyahu Israel's Sara Netanyahu sentenced for corruptionQuartz - Ephrat LivniIsraeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a lot of problems. He has been accused of corruption, failed to assemble a coalition after winning a recent election and now must campaign in another race
Quartzadded this to Rewiring Small BusinessExtradition From students to horse-racers, Hong Kong united against extraditionQuartz - Youyou ZhouMassive protests are taking place in Hong Kong, demanding the withdrawal of a bill that would allow the extradition of criminals to mainland China. Demonstrators fear it will be abused by the government
Quartzadded this to The 2050 ProjectUruguay 50 million lose power in South America blackoutsQuartz - Ephrat LivniA massive power outage has left swaths of South America at a standstill today (June 16) while tens of millions of people await the restoration of electricity. Lost electricity has been reported in all
Quartzadded this to How We'll Win: The Other HalfLatin America The CEO of Pro Mujer on how women are key to Latin America’s successQuartz - Annabelle TimsitIn the last decade, the largest driver of GDP growth in Latin America has been an expansion of the labor force. That’s been tied in part to the increased participation of women. On average, across the
Quartzadded this to Rewiring Small BusinessCarrie Lam Photos: What Hong Kong's protesters want nowQuartz - Mary HuiHong Kong’s protests over the past week succeeded in getting its government to change course on a reviled extradition bill, which would have allowed suspects to be dispatched to the mainland to face trial.
Quartzadded this to CES 2019Fatherhood DNA testing means forced fatherhood as states limit abortionQuartz - Heather TimmonsBefore Roe v. Wade, if an unmarried women got pregnant and told her boyfriend about it, he might make a chilling “joke” about shaming her and abandoning all responsibility, author Ursula Le Guin recounts
Quartzadded this to How We'll WinHong Kong Hong Kong extradition protesters: "We are not rioters"Quartz - Mary HuiHundreds of thousands of people are again out in the streets in Hong Kong today (June 16), even after the city’s chief executive announced yesterday she would indefinitely suspend a controversial extradition
Quartzadded this to CES 2019Play buttonHeadaches The psychology of self-trackingQuartz - Joseph ReaglePeople who identify with the “Quantified Self movement” are, as expressed in the movement’s motto, seeking “self-knowledge through self-tracking.” They want to know how to sleep better, stay fit, or have
Quartzadded this to CES 2019Public Relations The social media crisis is about expectations, not addictionQuartz - Arunas L. RadzvilaviciusOne afternoon last April, at a coffee shop deep in suburban Philadelphia, I overheard a curious conversation between what looked to be a teenager and her grandfather. They were discussing the impacts social
Quartzadded this to Rewiring Small BusinessCoconut Say "cheers" to the India, Pakistan national teams in World CupQuartz - Niharika SharmaThose damned rain gods better take the day off today (June 16). Old Trafford’s bracing for the centrepiece of the ongoing cricket world cup: an India-Pakistan match. Needless to say, some 1.5 billion are
Quartzadded this to CES 2019Cannes Lions Cannes Lions bingo: The advertising industry's top buzzwords in 2019Quartz - Jason KaraianThe Cannes Lions advertising conference—or, International Festival of Creativity, if you will—takes place this week on the French Riviera. Quartz is again producing a special pop-up edition of our Daily
Quartzadded this to How We'll Win: The Other HalfPlay buttonCathedrals Priests in hard hats celebrate the first mass at Notre Dame since the devastating fireQuartz - Justin RohrlichThe first mass was held at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris today since the centuries-old church was ravaged by fire in April. Priests wearing hard hats led the service in the Chapel of the Virgin,
Quartzadded this to How We'll WinO.J. Simpson O.J. Simpson joins TwitterQuartz - Justin RohrlichO.J. Simpson, who more than two decades ago stood accused of killing ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, has apparently joined Twitter in order to settle old beefs. “I got a little
Quartzadded this to How We'll Win: The Other HalfIvanka Trump Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner made up to $135 million while working for freeQuartz - Justin RohrlichUnpaid presidential advisers Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner earned between $82 million and $135.1 million last year in outside income, newly released financial disclosures reveal. The couple claimed
Quartzadded this to CES 2019Plastic Here’s how you eat a credit card’s worth of plastic each weekQuartz - Justin RohrlichPeople across the world unwittingly consume roughly 5 grams of plastic each week in the course of daily life, or about the weight of a credit card, according to Australian researchers. That’s about 250
Quartzadded this to Rewiring Small BusinessNews Warming oceans might actually be good news for the original sea monsterQuartz - Chase PurdySquid occupy a powerful place in our imagination. They are the original sea monsters, immortalized in Jules Verne’s classic novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and in Scandinavian folklore, in
Quartzadded this to Redesigning FashionMeat America’s biggest meat companies want to sell you “blended meat” productsQuartz - Chase PurdyThe world’s second largest meat company is moving a half step away from its age-old products by introducing a new line of ground beef that’s 50% ground beef and 50% plant-based. Tyson’s decision to sell
Quartzadded this to The Talent QuotientPlay buttonNBA Drake just dropped two songs to celebrate the Toronto Raptors’ NBA championshipQuartz - Nicolas RiveroDrake has finally found a healthy way to express his Raptors superfandom. After spending the NBA playoffs freely roaming the court, doling out unsolicited back rubs, taunting players from the sidelines,
Quartzadded this to CES 2019Play buttonVenice Biennale At Venice Biennale, artists use VR to drive home climate crisisQuartz - Vivienne ChowClimate change is here but not everyone can feel the impact yet. Some artists are turning to virtual reality to help audiences better “experience” it. While climate scientists have warned about the effects
Quartzadded this to The 2050 ProjectWomen Entrepreneurs Female entrepreneurs lead at Dakar Fashion Week, SenegalQuartz - Annika HammerschlagRalph Lauren, Marc Jacobs, Tommy Hilfiger—some of the many male designers who create clothes for women – often headline the fashion weeks of the West. But in Dakar, Senegal and other African hubs such
Quartzadded this to United Nations General AssemblyAirbnb Airbnb experience listing: a tour of the company's San Francisco headquartersQuartz - Michelle ChengAmong Airbnb’s more than 4 million listings, this is, perhaps, the most meta listing of them all: a tour of Airbnb’s headquarters in San Francisco, with a company employee as your guide. The offer, which
Quartzadded this to QuartzyPolitics The latest US Supreme Court rulings are blowing up pundits’ predictionsQuartz - Ephrat LivniThe latest US Supreme Court rulings show that the justices aren’t towing political party lines in the way pundits on the left and right predicted after Donald Trump appointed two new members. This may
Quartzadded this to The Talent QuotientRaytheon United Technologies and Raytheon bet on missile spendingQuartz - Tim FernholzA spate of military-industrial consolidation in the US is being driven in part by a resurgence of spending on rocket weapons. This week, United Technologies and Raytheon announced a merger that would a
Quartzadded this to CES 2019Meat Artists stopped showing us the truth about farming and it’s hurting the planetQuartz - Chase PurdyThere’s a staggering gulf between the food that we eat and our concept of where it comes from—and the art world is partly to blame. A walk down virtually any grocery store aisle is an exhibition of its
Quartzadded this to CES 2019Hong Kong Hong Kong's Lion Rock spirit is key in the extradition fightQuartz - Mary HuiHong Kong was once denounced as “a barren rock with nary a house upon it.” Yet it is that barren rock upon which Hong Kong’s spirit has been built. The idea of the “Lion Rock spirit”—of thriving in the
Quartzadded this to How We'll WinPlay buttonMona Lisa Who was Mona Lisa? Why da Vinci's masterpiece still fascinatesQuartz - Susan BroomhallEvery day, thousands of people from around the world crowd into a stark, beige room at Paris’s Louvre Museum to view its single mounted artwork, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. To do so, they walk straight
Quartzadded this to CES 2019Hong Kong Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam indefinitely suspends extradition billQuartz - Tripti LahiriThe odds were long but the million people who turned out last Sunday—and the tens of thousands who circled government offices—did it. Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam today (June 15) said she had
Quartzadded this to CES 2019Kids A guide to the best things to do with your kids this summerQuartz - Annabelle TimsitEvery year for 18 years, kids leave school for up to three months, and parents are left scrambling to fill their days in other ways. When kids are very young, that might involve a desperate search for
Quartzadded this to How We'll WinMediterranean Migrant Crisis A boat captain is facing 20 years in prison for rescuing migrants in the MediterraneanQuartz - Luiz RomeroA petition demanding that Italy drop criminal charges against a boat captain who has rescued hundreds of migrants in the Mediterranean has gathered more than 110,000 signatures. Prosecuting Pia Klemp,
