There was a fun marketing event in Santa Monica, CA last week that I was almost tempted to take part in. I would have been there with bells on if I had woken up that day and thought to myself… Yes, I will park my car and walk down the street in my underwear in [...]
Did you know that Almost 60% of 16-34 year olds use a phone as their primary timepiece? I haven’t worn a watch since my Mickey Mouse one fell off my wrist into Sydney Harbor when I was 11 years old. Actually, the only friend I can think of who wears a watch is a guy [...]
It feels like Epic Meal Time has been around a lot longer than last October but maybe that’s because it’s so. …well …EPIC! The show is a ridiculously popular online cooking show that clocks about a million views per episode, with fan-favorites getting as many as two-and-a-half million. If you haven’t seen it (really??) then [...]
My friend is doing a teaching degree so I forwarded him this infograph. It kind of follows on from my last blog about kids and their ease with technology… aka “Digital Natives” He’s a “mature” student who has decided to explore teaching after a career in law. So having already been a college student in [...]
College students sitting at their computers downloading music, watching free videos, sharing photos, and writing a paper at the same can easily fall into the trap of grabbing information from Wikipedia and dropping it into their essay or research report without thinking twice. In a cut-paste world, really, what’s the problem?
Fast food is a permanent and pervasive part of the American way of life. Now, it turns out, all those omnipresent fast food signs actually have a psychological effect on us, making us impatient about other aspects of our lives and fueling the Clockless Wave.
Bored with mass produced lagers, two 24-year-old Brits decided to brew their own beers under the name “BrewDog.” As you might guess from that name, they also decided to be as original and creative as a couple of young, irreverent guys can be. One of their new beers is called “The End Of History” and every bottle comes wrapped in a real, stuffed stoat or grey squirrel.
What if you could take a pill before your next big meeting and remember everything during the last two months that would help you be the star of that meeting? Or what if you could give your son or daughter a pill that would make taking their next test a snap?
Recently it was discovered that “fat” is a distinct flavor from other flavors, such as sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami—which is a taste for protein-rich foods. This finding may not seem earth shattering to you, but it certainly was to the Australian scientists who proved it. It means that humans have a sixth taste, and the ramifications of that truth are just starting to unfold.
It’s not legal to discriminate, but in the Barely Legal Wave, people do cross over the line and get away with it. Recently on the social network site BeautifulPeople.com, members who had packed on a few extra pounds over the holiday had to face this ugly truth—they weren’t beautiful enough to stay on the site.