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April 28, 2016
Behind The Politely Savage Patriarchal Parody Of "Dad Magazine"
Jaya Saxena and Matt Lubchansky just put out the ultimate dad joke—a book-length satire of universal dad behavior, in deadpan magazine form.
One of the most important distinctions between parents is in their namesake jokes. The quintessential mama joke is one someone else makes about your mom, often that her weight is just grotesquely, dangerously disproportionate to her height. The classic dad joke is one your dad cracks in response to any number of obvious, familiar prompts, often within the confines of a chain restaurant. Mama jokes thrive on the motherly love the teller leverages to make both you and your mom the butt of the joke. The only butt of a dad joke, however, is your dad, who is too oblivious to realize he just played himself (again.)
Why So Many Doctors Are Advising Startups
It's less about the money than trying to solve the right problems.
Ethan Weiss, a cardiologist at UC San Francisco, spends long hours at the hospital treating patients. But between shifts, he takes calls with health-technology entrepreneurs to offer them advice and feedback.
These Are The 10 Best Sustainable Buildings Of 2016
From labs to museums to libraries, these buildings all save enormous amounts of energy and water—and are better to work in, too.
Every year, the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment scours the country for the best new green buildings—which, as they point out in a new report, can be built for the same amount or even less than standard architecture. They just happen to be much better at saving energy and water—and nicer to work inside, thanks to better light, materials, and cleaner air. Here are the 10 that won this year.
The Important Statistics That Are Missing From Most Diversity Reports
Many companies are leaving out some of the most important statistics when disclosing their diversity numbers.
Earlier this month, Microsoft wrote a blog post about its gender pay gap. It shared that its pay gap between men and women is much smaller than the national average, and that overall its non-white employees earn slightly more: Microsoft's U.S. female employees make on average 99.8 cents to every dollar their male counterparts make. For non-white employees the breakdown goes: "African American/black employees are at $1.003; Hispanic/Latino(a) employees are at 99.9 cents; and Asian employees are at $1.006 for every $1 earned by Caucasian employees at the same job title and level, respectively." The company pledged to continue monitoring this data and publicly disclosing it.
Only Interview One Woman? There's Statistically No Chance She'll Be Hired
A new study found that when companies only interviewed one woman or minority they didn't get the job, but luckily there's a simple fix.
Diversity initiatives are popping up all over, particularly within technology companies that have a preponderance of white men among executives and staff.
How The Most Successful People Constantly Question Their Strongest Beliefs
Staying open-minded and questioning everything is hard work, cognitively speaking.
There's a funny paradox when it comes to highly successful people: They have a strong commitment to action but are willing to question what they believe to be true. On one hand, hard tasks take your full effort to accomplish. But on the other, your experience may prove the world quite a bit different than how you imagined it before getting started.
4 Ways To Finish Team Projects Successfully And On Time, Every Time
Hint: There's such a thing as over-brainstorming.
Back in 2004, PricewaterhouseCoopers reviewed 10,640 projects from 200 companies in 30 countries across a range of industries, and found that only 2.5% of those companies completed 100% of their projects. For anyone with a job, that may not be too surprising—projects get delayed and derailed all the time. But the costs can pile up. By one measure, organizations lose $109 million for every $1 billion invested in projects and programs.
Apple's CareKit Just Hit GitHub
Developers can use CareKit to build apps that track patients' health between doctor's visits.
How often do you visit your doctor's office? Three, four times per year? For most of us, our health is really about what happens between these visits: It's the medications we take, our changing moods, or that decision to hit the gym more regularly.
April 27, 2016
Why Comcast Buying DreamWorks Animation Is A Major Threat To Disney
With Illumination Entertainment and DreamWorks Animation under one roof, Comcast would have an animation powerhouse to rival Disney.
News that Comcast, the parent company of Universal Pictures, is in talks to purchase DreamWorks Animation sent ripples through Hollywood when it was reported by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
Is A $15 National Minimum Wage Actually Feasible?
Minimum wage reform is gaining momentum, but is a $15/hour boost actually possible?
Just four years ago, few people would have thought it possible.
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