David Lidsky's Blog, page 3061
February 5, 2015
Giving Tea The Blue Bottle Treatment
The quest to make third-wave tea a reality in a culture obsessed with coffee.
At Samovar, a tea bar on Valencia Street in San Francisco, white ceramic mugs line white walls, and the seating is one long bench, also white. Behind the counter, attractive men sport bespoke canvas aprons while tending to elegant glass contraptions that look like tall, thin French presses. Heaps of scones and croissants sit under glass domes in front of the tablet registers. It has the reverential air of many neighboring third-wave cafes in the Mission: Four Barrel, Ritual, Sightglass.
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Drugs, Guns, And Selfies: Gangs On Social Media
Can monitoring the social media activities of drug cartels and criminal gangs help disrupt their real-life networks?
Dr. Robert Muggah's typical working day involves drugs, guns, and violence. At the SecDev Foundation in Canada and the Igarapé Institute in Rio de Janiero, his team monitors the social media activity of drug cartels and criminal gangs from San Diego to El Salvador. "The U.S. Southern Command recently announced that gangs and cartels were the biggest threat to the U.S. in the Southern hemisphere, rivaling climate change, jihadism and extremism," says Muggah.
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Why Managers And Employees Have Wildly Different Ideas About Work-Life Balance
Management thinks everyone has work-life balance, but employees want more flexibility. What's behind the disparity and how can we fix it?
"There's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life and there's no balance."
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Inside The Group Of 1 Million Moms Fighting For Workplace Equality
From a kitchen table to Washington, D.C., this grassroots organization is doing whatever it takes to get attention for working parents' issues.
Earlier this week, 18 students from high schools in Seattle and Redmond, Washington, visited the nation's capital to testify about and support HB 1646, the Equal Pay Opportunity Act and voice their concerns about gender-based pay inequality.
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What Tomorrow's Schools Can Learn From Lego Today
Teachers have some of the greatest stories to tell. Can they click with kids?
Today's teachers tell me that students simply won't pay attention in class. I believe I discovered the reason while designing Lego's toy of the future.
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February 4, 2015
YouTube Is Testing "Choose Your Own Camera Angle" Videos
It's sort of like "choose your own adventure, only with videos.
From live-streams to award shows, YouTube has tried various innovations to keep it at the top of the streaming video pile. Now Google's video behemoth is looking to add another new idea to the mix: a "choose your view" feature that allows users to flip between multiple camera angles of particular videos while they're watching.
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Ross Ulbricht, Founder Of Silk Road, Convicted On All Charges
Charges include money laundering and drug trafficking.
A jury today convicted Ross Ulbricht for being the architect of the infamous deep web marketplace Silk Road.
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Feeling Woozy? 23AndMe Releases First-Ever Genome-Wide Study Of Motion Sickness
The controversial company found 35 genetic factors—like balance, and eye and ear development—that are associated with motion sickness.
Consumer genetics firm 23AndMe has issued the first ever genome-wide association study of motion sickness. After the rocky legal back-and-forth between 23AndMe and the FDA that prevents the genetics company from extensively analyzing customer genetics, this study's results are a solid win, and vindicate 23AndMe's goals of using its vast bank of genetics data benevolently.
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A High Number Of California Child-Care Centers Have Low Vaccination Rates
As of last fall, at the YWCA Family Cooperative Preschool in Santa Monica, only 51% of attending children had received the measles vaccine.
As the vaccination debate rages on, following a recent measles outbreak at Disneyland, the L.A. Times reports on the surprising disparity between children with measles immunization in private versus public schools. In California, for example, the immunization rate is 96%. Of the 1,500 licensed child-care centers with a measles vaccination rate of 92% or less for children ages 2-5, however, 1,100 of them are private.
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Coke Tweets Inspirational Hitler Art, Isn't Actually That Into "Mein Kampf"
Ladies and gents, here's your Worst Brand Tweet of the Week!
When it comes to corporate tweeting, it seldom gets more off-brand than Mein Kampf. But sure enough, earlier today Coca-Cola sent out an unfortunate series of Adolf Hitler-inspired tweets to its nearly 3 million followers.
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