Airlines have embraced blue lighting to upgrade the flying experience. The travel journalist Paula Froelich remembers walking onto her first Virgin America flight and thinking, “What is this, a club?” When the airline launched in the US in 2007, industrial designer Adam Wells decided to avoid the sickly “yellow-green fluorescent lighting” standard on planes in...
Recently, the popular social media app, Instagram, has been quietly testing a new feature that would hide your number of likes from all your followers or other accounts. Basically, the public won’t be able to monitor the number of likes that your post gets. The original poster will be the only one who would be...
The Kardashian-West-Jenner clan showed up in their version of Sunday best at the festival jam session. No surprise that Kanye’s West’s first public “Sunday Service” headlining the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Easter Sunday (on a private stage he constructed on the grassy “mountain” in the campground section of the grounds) caused a...
“Think Different,” said the famous 1997 Apple advertisement. Excellent advice, obviously, to all creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs. But, along with thinking differently in order to come up with revolutionary new ideas or products, there is also seeing differently. Great creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs look at the world in ways that are different from how many of...
A bill to lessen the penalties for marijuana possession in Alabama took its first step toward passing the Legislature today. Besides reducing the penalties, the legislation would allow offenders to have marijuana convictions expunged after five years if they steer clear of another arrest. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill by Sen. Bobby Singleton,...
Most people pass through some type of public space in their daily routine — sidewalks, roads, train stations. Thousands walk through Bryant Park every day. But we generally think that a detailed log of our location, and a list of the people we’re with, is private. Facial recognition, applied to the web of cameras that...
Ronnie and Shamari DeVoe & Martez and Woodrina Layton to co-host 3rd Annual Atlanta Married 4 Life Walk Atlanta residents will join the co-hosts for a two mile walk to emphasize the importance of marriage counseling and coaching to strengthen marriages and prevent divorce. Ronnie and Shamari DeVoe will co-host the 3Rd Annual Married 4...
Musicians have more ways to self-monetize than ever before, but all too often, it feels like that money is just out of reach. Putting out music yourself is not as hard as it used to be, but making money from that music takes a bit more work and know-how. It’s a minefield most artists still...
Friendship, C.S. Lewis believed, “like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself … has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” But the poetic beauty of this sentiment crumbles into untruth for anyone who has ever been buoyed from the pit of despair by the unrelenting kindness...
The human body possesses the capacity to heal itself. Disease generally occurs when we abuse our bodies or deprive them of basic requirements to keep us healthy over extended periods. Every second that we’re alive, the cells in our bodies are endlessly working to bring us back to a natural state of homeostasis or equilibrium....