Women's News Why being "nice" is a bad word at workQuartz - Sarah ToddIf you want to give someone at work a back-handed compliment, try telling them they’re nice. As a generally sunny person whose niceness gets commented on by colleagues quite a bit, I wouldn’t say the label
Research Center First-ever magic mushroom research center is launching in JamaicaQuartz - Olivia GoldhillWhat exactly makes magic mushrooms psychedelic? How psychedelic are they? Are there any undiscovered psychedelic molecules hidden inside those freaky fungi? These questions will be the focus of the world’s
Climate The huge youth climate strike is about courage, not hopeQuartz - Akshat RathiThe breadth and scope of the climate crisis is seen as its greatest challenge. When people in different regions of the world—sometimes within the same country—are punished by weather events of varying
African Development Bank Quartz Africa Innovators 2019Quartz - Quartz StaffIt seems like only yesterday when one of the innovators from our inaugural list in 2015, warned the audience at a Quartz event in Nairobi that we shouldn’t “fetishize entrepreneurship.” The context was
Addiction A new kind of rehab uses human connection to treat addictionQuartz - Jenny AndersonIn 2015, Jennifer Nicolaisen was working in consulting and getting by some days on just two hours of sleep. She was a 27-year-old statistician in northern Virginia, basking in what she called “rising energy”—the
travel news “Soloism” is the 21st century’s biggest business opportunityQuartz - Sarah Rabia• Think about solitude as the new luxury. Flip the script that says aloneness is something to avoid. Create a new narrative that champions its normality as part of a balanced lifestyle. Silent retreats
Employment What happens when delivery startups use employees instead of contractorsQuartz - Alison GriswoldHe spent a few years ferrying packages around Sacramento, California, for Amazon before switching to Deliv, a mid-sized same-day delivery startup, in late 2017. Deliv makes deliveries for retailers like
Neil Young How Neil Young’s business failure helped the the music industryQuartz - Patrick FlanaryToward the end of music legend Neil Young’s recent memoir, he makes an admission: “I was wrong.” The book, To Feel the Music: A songwriter’s mission to save high-quality audio, is something of a postmortem
Hong Kong Why Hong Kong's protesters are boycotting StarbucksQuartz - Mary HuiEarly on in Hong Kong’s protest movement, the choice of where one shopped, ate, and drank quickly became a political statement. As protests have raged on well into their third month, more and more brands
Diwali Slowdown aside, Indians excited for Amazon, Flipkart Diwali salesQuartz - Ananya BhattacharyaSpooked by slowing economic growth, Indians have been saving every penny in the last couple of months. But looks like this conservative mindset will be forgotten once the festive season kicks in. Around
Startups An investors' guide to spotting the next billion-dollar startupQuartz - Samarth MassonThe biggest hurdle in launching a startup today is not capital, which is readily available, but the business idea and its potential. If the idea is promising, entrepreneurs can attract ample funding. this
India India's ban on vaping has little to do with health impactQuartz - Niharika SharmaYoung people making a style statement with e-cigarettes, “to look cool,” has India concerned. An executive order banning the production, import, sale, storage and advertising of vaping products in the
Millennials Delhi's millennials would rather be parents than CEOsQuartz - Sangeeta TanwarMillennials in India’s capital city care more about their responsibilities as parents than chasing high-profile careers. Delhi residents born between 1981 and 1996, give preference to fulfilling their
China Why China’s social media propaganda isn’t as good as Russia’sQuartz - Echo HuangChina has framed Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests as a foreign-backed movement that uses “thugs” to threaten the mainland’s sovereignty. The narrative might be working within the great firewall. Outside
Play buttonGuns Sandy Hook Promise's shocking video on gun violence in schoolsQuartz - Annalisa MerelliAs another school year opens, millions of American children will have to undergo active shooter training because their country doesn’t have laws in place that effectively control gun violence. Sandy Hook
Rugby World Cup 2019 on in the US, but will anyone pay to watch?Quartz - Mike MurphyThe 2019 Rugby World Cup is set to kick off in Japan on Sept. 20, with the hosts taking on Russia in the first game of the tournament. The US will make its eighth appearance in the competition, perhaps
Play buttonSolar Eclipse NASA Juno orbiter captures solar eclipse on JupiterQuartz - Johnny SimonNASA’s Juno orbiter has captured stunning images of the swirling, hypnotic beauty of Jupiter in the three years it has been observing our solar system’s largest planet. On Sept. 12, Juno sent back a scene
Ebola Measles is killing more people in DR Congo than EbolaQuartz - Jeremy Rossman, University of KentEbola outbreaks, such as the current one in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has claimed 2,074 people’s lives, are widely covered in the media. But another virus is ravaging the DRC with
Climate Climate restoration made its debut at the United NationsQuartz - Michael J. CorenNowhere in the Paris Agreement do the words “climate restoration” appear. “Mitigation” shows up 23 times in the landmark 2016 accord to slow global warming. The idea of rehabilitating the atmosphere to
Ivanka Trump New SNL member Chloe Fineman's Instagram impressions are amazingQuartz - Adam EpsteinThe controversy surrounding comedian Shane Gillis—who was hired by Saturday Night Live last week and fired just days later after racist and homophobic jokes resurfaced—has overshadowed the hirings of other
Pandemic Health leaders say world is dangerously unprepared for a pandemicQuartz - Annalisa MerelliIn October 2014, a man died of Ebola in Dallas. Two of the nurses who treated him contracted the virus. Days later, a physician returning from West Africa was diagnosed with Ebola in New York City. Although
Huawei Huawei Mate 30 phone to launch in Europe minus Google appsQuartz - Jane LiAs Chinese tech giant Huawei prepares to unveil its Mate 30 phone on Thursday (Sept. 19), analysts are predicting it’s going to be hard to get overseas consumers to buy what the tech giant has so successfully
Facebook Facebook is introducing more Portal smart displaysQuartz - Hanna KozlowskaFacebook, which has had a patchy record on user privacy, is launching even more products that require you to have the company’s cameras and microphones in your living room. The new lineup adds to Facebook’s
Kids Why you should think like a kid at workQuartz - Tom PuthiyamadamWhen I invited my 10-year-old son and my 11-year-old godson to come to work and hang out at a problem-solving workshop with me for the day, I expected it to be an average bring-your-kids-to-work day. it
trump news update Trump's cuts to SNAP concerns Republicans tooQuartz - Melissa HowellPresident Donald Trump is no stranger to practices that punish the poor. It was a mainstay of his professional strategy as a real estate developer known for skipping out on payments. It has shown to be
Markets Andela lays off 400 developers—what it means for local ecosystemsQuartz - Yomi KazeemIn the five years since it was founded, Andela’s business model of training and outsourcing junior developers to global companies around the world saw it become a champion for local computer engineering
Palm Oil The global demand for palm oil is driving the fires in IndonesiaQuartz - Zoë SchlangerThe smoke wafting from fires in the tropical forests of Indonesia—forming plumes big enough to blot out the sky in Malaysia and Singapore—is a reminder of a global supply chain run amok. Whereas the devastating
Surveillance China's Huawei is driving AI surveillance tools in AfricaQuartz - Abdi Latif DahirArtificial intelligence technology is proliferating fast across the world and is being deployed in applications from speech recognition to deepfake videos and monitoring traffic congestion. It’s also being
Saudi Aramco Drone attack could cost Saudi millions per day in lost oil outputQuartz - Adam RasmiDrone attacks against the Abqaiq and Khurais oil fields on Sept. 14 in Saudi Arabia have roiled oil markets and, by extension, the global economy. But no country is feeling the strain as much as the kingdom
Nike The head of the agency behind Nike’s Kaepernick ad on finding allies and letting in fearQuartz - Cassie WerberWhen I first met Colleen DeCourcy, the chief creative officer of US advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy, and co-president of the firm alongside Tom Blessington, she had just returned from a 10-day solo in
