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How To Put Numbers in Context During an Election Year

I have bad news for all of us. The non-stop media coverage of politics has already started and it’s an election year here in the US. Now that the voting for Presidential primaries has started, you’ll likely start seeing a lot of reports about momentum, winners, losers and general predictions about the sentiment of the nation based on biased polling.

To help us all get ready, I thought it might be useful to share a few facts about demographics in America that put commonly shared numbers into conte...

Why Music Journalism Is Collapsing and How to Find New Music

“Before streaming, everybody in the value chain needed new music. The record stores would go broke if people just listened to the old songs over and over. And the same was true for record distributors, record labels, radio stations, nightclub owners, and music writers. Everybody needed hot new songs and rising new musicians. Of course, fans also benefited. The music industry worked tirelessly to find exciting new music, and share it with the world. That business model is now disappearing.”

This e...

Help Us Pick the Cover for Non-Obvious Thinking … Our Upcoming Book on Seeing What Others Miss!

I’ve been hard at work collaborating on a new book over the past few months and I can’t wait to share it with all of you. Those of you already on our launch team have seen a preview of these covers already (and thank you for all the feedback!). For the rest of you – I would love to hear what you think and you can also join our Launch Team for a sneak peek at manuscript too when we’re ready to share it!

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Genomic Nutrition Is Coming and It’s Going to Be Popular

The promise is simple and appealing. Get your genetics tested so that you can optimize the food you eat based on your unique needs. Personalized nutrition is already a billion-dollar industry without much actual personalized science behind it. Imagine what will happen when the genomics start catching up. An early initiative hoping to pave a path toward exactly this is a new partnership between natural and organic grocery store Earth Fare and GenoPalate, a leading genomic nutrition platform.

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Meet the Bizarre Top Ten Finalists in the 2024 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

In early March on the campus of Georgia Tech 10 finalists will meet for a face-to-face competition to take home a $10,000 prize and bragging rights in the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. The contest is attracts innovators who are inventing the “world’s next generation of musical instruments.”

This year’s finalists come from five countries and include The Babel Table (multiple arrangements of latex membranes and compressed air to produce a variety of “voices” from deep percussive effects t...

AI Models Are Finally Getting Adopted in Fantasy Sports

The past few months have seen an explosion in people experimenting with Chat GPT to write everything from college essays to resignation letters. The tool has become indispensable for some, helping with search queries, research and answering just about any question. Yet for the many use cases out there, one that seems to be getting surprising little attention is the potential for AI to help you win some money. In particular if you play fantasy sports, and specifically in daily contests where yo...

How Chewable Beverages Could Make a Comeback … and Be the Future

The 90s were a decade for grunge music and inventive beverages. The Orbitz was a soft drink described rather unappetizingly as “a lava lamp you could drink” and featured floating sugary chunks of tapioca in a more disgusting precursor to the Boba tea craze. While this concept of floating chunks of something in a drink is still dated, there is some precedent for experimentation in this area.

One Indian chef a few years ago, for example, went viral with her recipe for Masala Coke — a  drink that ba...

Mean Girls Fans Outraged to Discover the Movie Is a Musical

There was a time in my life when I would experience a movie in a theater without ever having seen a trailer for it. I was living in Australia and that time introduced me to seeing a film without any preconceptions. Movie trailers have always been notorious for giving away the entire plot of a film in their quest to sell it. But they are harder and harder to avoid thanks to YouTube. 

This week, some moviegoers had an inverted experience of this … seeing a movie that didn’t seem to match the traile...

Why “Made in Dubai” Will Be the Next Global Brand

Dubai has an ambitious plan to become a global brand, and it starts with hospitality. The emirate already brings in nearly twice the tourist spending of London, hosts world-class events and is home to what many consider the world’s best airline in Emirates. Dubai’s ruling sheikh, Mohammed bin Rashid, also launched his Dubai Economic Agenda which aims to double the size of the economy over the next ten years. All of this in a place that is rapidly running out of space. 

The Dubai brand, therefore,...

What Really Happens When ChatGPT Writes Your Sales Copy …

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When you find a piece of hyperbolic nonsense this lazy, it’s hard not to share it. Yes, this is the...