What Graduation Speeches Should Really Say

ideas.time.com 10 hours ago

There is a strong chance you will wind up miserable with no sense of purpose if you don't figure out one very important thing.

 
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Welcome to the jungle: The definitive oral history of ’80s metal

salon.com 2 hours ago

Mötley Crüe, Slash, Lita Ford, Dokken and more share the wildest stories from the heyday of L.A.'s Sunset Strip

 
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Steven Spielberg Working on Live-Action Halo Series for Xbox

wired.com 5 hours ago

During today's unveiling of the new Xbox One, Microsoft announced that legendary director Steven Spielberg would be working on a new live-action Halo show.

 
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Why Star Trek Made San Francisco the Headquarters for Its Futuristic Utopia

wired.com 5 hours ago

San Francisco serves, in Star Trek’s fictional universe, as the site of Starfleet Command – the headquarters of the good guys – and despite all the time they spend boldly going where no one has gone...

 
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Experimental Lighting That Balances Like a See-Saw

fastcodesign.com 4 hours ago

It’s either the most grown up hanging mobile, or the most secretly playful piece of high end design...

 
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This Pouch Ensures You Pay Attention To Your Date, Not Your Phone

fastcodesign.com 6 hours ago

Forget body language--the most effective, ultra-modern way to show someone that you’re into them, you respect them, or you genuinely enjoy their company is to keep your darn hands off your darn phone...

 
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We May All Be Driving Electric Cars In The Future, But That Future Is Really Far Away

fastcoexist.com 4 hours ago

Electrified transport is key to a lower carbon future...

 
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“Game Of Thrones” Houses Reimagined As 21st-Century Brands

fastcodesign.com 12 hours ago

I’ve spent too many hours in Shutterstock, mining for gold amongst…let’s just call them organic substances far less valuable than gold...

 
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Manga Moles and Success Steve Holt: The Best Arrested Development Fan Creations

wired.com 16 hours ago

In the decade since it first aired, Arrested Development has inspired scads of memes, mash-up Tumblrs, and fan art. Here are some of the best.

 
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A Zero Energy House That You Can Control With Your iPhone

fastcodesign.com 10 hours ago

Ninety years ago, avant-garde architects were designing houses with modular spaces that echoed the efficiency of planes and cars...

 
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Jean Grey Gets in Bed with Logan in New Wolverine Trailer

wired.com 7 hours ago

Jean Grey shows up in the middle of the night in the latest trailer for director James Mangold's The Wolverine.

 
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Paris Review – Have You Ever Heard Virginia Woolf Speak?, Sadie Stein

theparisreview.org 11 hours ago

What follows is the only known surviving recording of Virgina Woolf, part of a BBC radio broadcast from 1937. The talk is titled “Craftsmanship.”  

 
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Prepare Yourself For A Revolution In Cured Meats

fastcoexist.com 6 hours ago

While the rest of Washington has been brought to a standstill by scandals and partisan gridlock, there’s one issue our nations leaders are making real progress on: cured meats.NPR reports that at the...

 
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On Suicide, Does Density Disprove Durkheim?

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Do state-by-state suicide numbers prove that communal ties don’t influence suicide rates?

 
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Paris Review – People Will Always Be Kind, Henry Giardina

theparisreview.org 4 hours ago

Like everyone else on the planet, it took me no time at all to read and form an opinion about Angelina Jolie’s recent New York Times op-ed about her preventative double mastectomy, a heartfelt piece...

 
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Twitter’s Fred Graver On 5 Ways To Engage Second Screen Viewers

fastcocreate.com 13 hours ago

For more on global leaders in technology, design, media, music, movies, marketing, television, and sports, see Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People In Business 2013 report...

 
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Where Do You Come From? Tips For Creating A Powerful Provenance For Your Brand

fastcompany.com 12 hours ago

There's a good reason Apple puts Designed in California on its products rather than Built in China. Lessons for all of us on developing a successful...

 
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What Steve Jobs Taught Me After I Said "No" To Him

fastcompany.com 12 hours ago

James Green CEO of the search company Magnetic was once hired by Jobs as a VP at Pixar Animation Studios. And curiously it was while working for one...

 
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Every Entrepreneur’s Biggest Mistake (And How To Avoid It!)

fastcompany.com 12 hours ago

According to one study 66 of new products fail within two years. And 96 of all innovations fail to deliver any return on a companys investment. Here's...

 
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Hone "Strategic Patience," Watch Your Creativity Spike

fastcompany.com 12 hours ago

An art history professor makes her students sit in front of a painting for three hours. PampG invents the Swiffer. Those events are more alike than...

 
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Microsoft Unveils Xbox One, An All-In-One Entertainment Console

fastcompany.com 8 hours ago

Microsoft has revealed the next generation of its Xbox gaming console: Xbox One a cloudpowered allinone home entertainment system.At a press event on...

 
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How Adult Tumblrs Could Land Yahoo In A Legal Pinch

fastcompany.com 20 May

Marissa Mayer says she wants to let Tumblr be Tumblr after acquiring David Karp's microblogging service for $1.1 billion. But the bigger problem for...

 
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Put Asking For Help On Your Daily To-Do List

fastcompany.com 11 hours ago

Leaders should know everything about their project from top to bottomexcept that just isn't possible. Setting aside your pride and asking for help is...

 
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Paul Krugman’s right: Austerity kills

salon.com 19 May

Austerity kills -- radical cuts destroy economies and lives, and the honest numbers and economics keep proving it

 
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Virtual And Real Objects Meet And Become Smarter Objects At MIT

singularityhub.com 20 May

Smarter Object combines the adaptability of digital interfaces with the ease of use of real world devices.

 
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The Ultimate Don Draper Pitch Is Don Draper: Seeing Mad Men Through Its Ads

wired.com 20 May

Every week, Wired takes a look at the latest episode of Mad Men through the lens of the latest media campaign of the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency.

 
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Matternet Building Quadcopter Drone Network To Transport Supplies

singularityhub.com 10 hours ago

Last summer, drones took to the skies over the Dominican Republic and Haiti. These flying bots weren’t on a military mission, nor were they conducting police surveillance...

 
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A Pair Of Artists Reveal China’s Counterfeit Cities

fastcodesign.com 20 May

Earlier this year, online media was abuzz with the latest bit of strange news coming out of China, one involving cultural forgery on a scale yet seen. Or so it seemed...

 
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The Morning News

15 hours ago

An online magazine, published weekdays.

 
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Oatmeal Antics: Cartoonist Matthew Inman Makes an Art of Online Vigilantism

wired.com 15 hours ago

Illustration: David Cowles   Matthew Inman, author of the wildly popular web comic The Oatmeal, has a finely honed ability to offend, annoy,

 
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A Self-Monitoring Bike Helmet To Make You Feel Like A Fighter Pilot

fastcoexist.com 12 hours ago

An unlikely accessory has become the locus of significant innovation recently: the bike helmet...

 
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FDA To Decide Whether Antibacterial Soap Is Safe – After Four Decades

singularityhub.com 20 May

But research now shows that the active ingredient in the soap, triclosan, alters hormonal balance in animals, is possibly harmful to the immune system, and possibly contributes to the rise of...

 
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See Celebrities Reimagined As Renaissance Masterpieces

fastcocreate.com 20 May

Sometimes, when the light hits their chiseled features just the right way, it’s easy to see how certain celebrities could transcend traditional placement in tabloid magazines and might have inspired a...

 
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Viewpoint: Stop Critiquing the DSM 5

ideas.time.com 15 hours ago

The manual still has merit—but the APA needs to do a better job explaining how DSM 5 captures key facts about human suffering.

 
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