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Cults: The Holy Business of Being A God

Cults: The Holy Business of Being A God

Explainers Videos

As a god, your disciples don’t view you as ruling over them even though you are, but as their benevolent leader showing them the light to salvation. A leader that though figuratively and literally followed to the ends of the earth. Now, that is real power.

Is This A Chinese City In Malaysia?

Is This A Chinese City In Malaysia?

Architecture Cities Videos World

Forest City is being built in the Malaysian state of Johor in the southern part of the country. Here, the Johore Strait acts as a natural border between Malaysia and the independent city-state Singapore. It is one of the most ambitious urban development projects currently underway. An entire new city built from scratch.

Hard Truths: Will Museums’ Digital Plans Make Curators Obsolete?

Hard Truths: Will Museums’ Digital Plans Make Curators Obsolete?

Art Innovation Tech

As art institutions continue to raise ticket prices and roll out blockbusters, we may come to see shows that will be curated entirely by optimized algorithms. What happens when a museum becomes curator-less? Will this be the end of art history as we’ve known it, or the dawn of a techno renaissance?

The Internet's Second Revolution

The Internet's Second Revolution

Tech Videos

The second half of humanity is joining the internet. People in countries like India will change the internet, and it will change them. You have a whole bunch of languages that don’t enjoy very good support in terms of web browsers or input. And you have a whole bunch of people who can’t actually read or write.

Inside HBO Max, The $4 Billion Bet To Stand Out In The Streaming Wars

Inside HBO Max, The $4 Billion Bet To Stand Out In The Streaming Wars

Media

Bob Greenblatt, Kevin Reilly and Sarah Aubrey — the executives leading the charge for WarnerMedia’s ambitious HBO Max streaming venture — outline their vision for a global platform to compete with Netflix, Amazon, Disney and others in TV’s new frontier of the direct-to-consumer cavalcade.

The Unraveling Of America

The Unraveling Of America

Economics Long Reads Politics

If and when the Chinese are ascendant, with their concentration camps for the Uighurs, the ruthless reach of their military, their 200 million surveillance cameras watching every move and gesture of their people, we will surely long for the best years of the American century.

Bashir Sultani

Inspiration
Bashir Sultani
The Many Lives Of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”

The Many Lives Of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”

History Media

Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” has been covered by more than 300 other artists in virtually every genre. It’s an impressive feat by any standard, but even more so when you consider that “Hallelujah” was originally stuck on side two of an album that Cohen’s record label deemed unfit for release.

The First State-Approved North Korean Novel In English

The First State-Approved North Korean Novel In English

Media World

“Friend” by Paek Namnyong was first published in 1988 in North Korea where it became a bestseller and a television series. Thirty years later, Friend has become the first state-sanctioned North Korean novel to be published in English. It is, most surprisingly, a novel about love, marriage, and divorce.

What's Actually The Plane Of The Future

What's Actually The Plane Of The Future

Innovation Videos

Supersonic speed, modular cabin design, all electric power, transparent cabin walls, pilotless planes, personal jets for everyone—that all sounds great, but what’s actually the plane of the future. In the next 15-20 years, what will be the next major aircraft release to make an impact on the industry?

Carlsberg Beer, Niels Bohr, And The Infinite Pilsner Pipeline That Wasn’t

Carlsberg Beer, Niels Bohr, And The Infinite Pilsner Pipeline That Wasn’t

Food Media

Carlsberg gifted Niels Bohr, the famous Danish physicist, a home complete with a pipeline that pumped fresh beer directly into his residence. It’s a great story and one that has been reported on by publications such as Forbes and The Guardian. The only problem with the story is that it isn’t entirely true.

The Real Problem With The Cruise Industry

The Real Problem With The Cruise Industry

Business

What the novel coronavirus has revealed about the cruise industry is a “hidden in plain sight” problem — an international maritime regulatory structure that obfuscates and often ignores legal and social responsibility, accountability and culpability.

Dubai's Plan to Outlive Oil

Dubai's Plan to Outlive Oil

Cities Videos

Dubai does have oil, but today it only accounts for less than one percent of its GDP. What looks like a pure extravagance is actually pure marketing genius, attracting 14 million international visitors a year, who spend more than any other city in the world, 65% more, even, than New York or London.

Nikolay Schegolev

Inspiration
Nikolay Schegolev
Behind The Chinese Internet Wall

Behind The Chinese Internet Wall

Tech World

What is happening on the other side of the barrier? There we find people who respond to state controls with creativity and spunk. While some spend their days trawling cat videos, others create oases of subversion within the reality that they’ve been dealt.

Can Sea Water Desalination Save The World?

Can Sea Water Desalination Save The World?

Nature Videos

Ocean water is saturated with salt, and undrinkable. Most of the freshwater is locked away in glaciers or deep underground. Less than one percent of it is available to us. So why can’t we just take all that seawater, filter out the salt, and have a nearly unlimited supply of clean, drinkable water?

"Miller & Son", Award-Winning LGBTQ Short Film

"Miller & Son", Award-Winning LGBTQ Short Film

Videos

A transwoman mechanic lives between running her family’s auto shop during the day and expressing her femininity at night until an unforeseen event threatens the balance of her compartmentalized life.

Thailand: Turning Straw Into Gold

Thailand: Turning Straw Into Gold

Innovation Nature Videos

Huge amounts of rice straw are left over after the harvest in Thailand. Farmers often burn it, which is terrible for the environment. A young entrepreneur has found a new use for the material. Turned into paper, it can replace plastic food packaging.

Michael Crichton

Inspiration
Michael Crichton
War Propaganda: How To Get A Country To Go To War

War Propaganda: How To Get A Country To Go To War

Media Videos

The war propaganda function in the United States is finely tuned. It’s sophisticated and most of all it blends into the media terrain. While the names of the countries changed, and of course each circumstance was different, there were some parallels that cried out for examination.

Credit Card Companies Are Tracking Shoppers Like Never Before

Credit Card Companies Are Tracking Shoppers Like Never Before

Business Tech

Transactions have given rise to a complex data-selling ecosystem. At the heart of it are credit card processing networks, including Visa, American Express, and Mastercard, the latter of which took in $4.1 billion in 2019 for services that include marketing analytics as well as fraud detection.

Prefab Needs To Be Fixed Before It Can Save Housing

Prefab Needs To Be Fixed Before It Can Save Housing

Architecture

Today, prefabrication in the United States is stunted. The small manufacturers that exist cannot invest in research and therefore cannot produce the more sophisticated projects that are needed today. Plus, in many cases, it can be less costly to ship a project over from a more experienced or innovative fabricator.

How Big Tech Plans To Profit From The Pandemic

How Big Tech Plans To Profit From The Pandemic

Long Reads Tech

As the coronavirus continues to kill thousands each day, tech companies are seizing the opportunity to extend their reach and power. Towards a future in which, for the privileged, almost everything is home delivered, either virtually via streaming and cloud technology, or physically via driverless vehicle or drone.

"Le Mer", An Eco Fashion Short Film

"Le Mer", An Eco Fashion Short Film

Videos

We live in a society where we are not aware of the amount of plastic around us. Four children, from 6 to 11 years old, in recognizable two-color environments, where the plastic that coexists naturally with us stand out. Nobody cares. The kids will tell us what we are doing with our oceans and our planet.

What If We Automated Construction?

What If We Automated Construction?

Architecture Innovation Videos

The rise of technology is a huge opportunity for the construction industry; enabling it to overcome many of its challenges while broadening its appeal to young talent. From predictive design to 3D printing and even autonomous machines on site, this is what the future could look like if we automated construction.

Overcoming Despair To Discover The Meaning Of Life

Overcoming Despair To Discover The Meaning Of Life

Life Psychology

“Sick Souls, Healthy Minds” offers us a lifeline at this moment. As we tell each other what to watch, what to cook, what to read and what exercises to do, John Kaag invites us to ask, together with America’s greatest philosopher, William James, what makes life worth living.

How ‘Taco Friday’ Became A Swedish Tradition

How ‘Taco Friday’ Became A Swedish Tradition

Food World

Fredagsmys, or Cozy Friday, is a beloved Swedish tradition. Across the Scandinavian country, families stay home on Friday night, watch TV, and eat Tex-Mex-style tacos. This dinner choice is so common that, for most Swedes, Cozy Friday is also Taco Fredag, or Taco Friday.

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