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Topics: National Geographic, Y&R paging_filter National Geographic has tried to put a 21st century spin on the idiom “Walk a mile someone else’s shoes.” Instead of shoes, people swap faces—a la Snapchat’s face swap tool—in an odd new print campaign from Y&R São Paulo. break The intentions of the campaign are sound. The “Swap Prejudice…
In January, Samantha Wuu quit her job in Boston to move home to New Jersey and support her mother through two family illnesses. To take her mind off her worries, she also took up coloring. She very quickly found it hard to stop. “I was really, really stressed when this was going on,” says the…
A Brief Encounter with Alexia Tsotsis (Credit: Getty Images — I’ll get rid of it if you really want me to I promise just email me.) I did not know Alexia when I worked at HuffPost. I still don’t know her. I don’t engage with her on Facebook, I don’t write witty replies to her tweets. I’m…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump slammed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, saying,”the only card she has is the woman’s card.” (Reuters) “Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5 percent of the vote. The only thing she’s got going is the woman’s card,” Trump said Tuesday night, after winning 5 primaries. Ah…
China’s messaging services show that conversational interfaces are not always desirable. // end .article-topper__hgroup Picture a nightmarish future in which half-witted “conversational user interfaces” drive us insane with mindless conversation and misunderstandings. As U.S. tech companies rush to emulate the success of China’s messaging platforms, this could be where we’re headed. Dan Grover, a product…
Multiple sources have publically alleged that DC Comics editor Eddie Berganza has a history of sexual harassment. Following news that Vertigo executive editor Shelly Bond was fired after more than 20 years at the company as part of an ongoing restructuring of the imprint, Loser-City website co-founder Nick Hanover and Rosy Press editor Janelle Assellin noted that…
It’s been quite the month for DC Entertainment. Announcing that they would be restructuring their Vertigo imprint—the home to such iconic, mature-readers game changers as The Sandman and Preacher—DC also revealed the dismissal of longtime Vertigo editor, Shelly Bond. Bond, who began as an assistant editor in the imprint’s first year, has been with the…
Photo: AP ESPN The Magazine’s Sam Alipour published a story about athletes using online dating today, and though the trend piece seems six months too late, the timeliness can be forgiven because of the anecdotes within. Athletes are just like us, in that they’re looking for people to hump. Unsurprisingly, the younger players are more…
Photo: AP The NHL convinced one more person to please like its sport last night. A man on Twitter tuned into Game 7 of Blackhawks-Blues, the first hockey game he had ever seen. He tweeted as he watched, and his enthusiasm was delightful. “Tony X.” started watching roughly an hour into the game, but immediately…
I have two cyborg implants. One is in my hand, and it lets me unlock phones and doors by waving at them. The other is in my uterus, and it lets me control my own fertility. In the space between my left pointer finger and thumb is an RFID microchip, a small glass capsule about…