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To Live By Networking Words The 6 Most Powerful Words In Networking News To Live By DANNY RUBIN, MAY 26, 2014, Hey, did you hear Mark Zuckerberg announced an update to Facebook’s privacy settings? “When?” In May. “Why?” Because people have complained for a long time the settings are too confusing. So the company…
Courtesy Ralph Steadman Alex Suskind ENTERTAINMENT 04.27.14 The Gonzo Artist: Behind Ralph Steadman’s Most Famous Work Inside the mind of Ralph Steadman, the legendary artist and provocateur known for ghoulish humans, ink splatter marks, and distorted Polaroids of historical figures and celebrities. Step into a gallery space on West 18th Street in New York City…
Americans have little doubt about the scientific evidence that smoking can cause cancer. However, a bigger portion of Americans still question some of the basic concepts of modern science, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. In the survey, with a representative sample of 1,012 U.S. adults age 18 or older, respondents were asked…
Earlier this month, attorney James Kidney, who was retiring from the Securities and Exchange Commission, gave a widely reported speech at his retirement party. He said that his bosses were too, quote, “tentative and fearful” to hold Wall Street accountable for the 2008 economic meltdown. Kidney, who joined…
“Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.” – Thomas Paine…
For Chinese men there’s no status symbol like a mistress, or two, or three, or four A friend attended a work-related banquet in China recently. Seated at the same table were several men who were executives of Chinese state-owned enterprises. As bottles of Hennessy Cognac and jet-fuel-like baijiu were opened and quickly consumed, the topic…
April 5th, 2014 By Fareed Zakaria For those of you tired of the coverage of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, I want you to try an experiment. When you’re with a group of friends – whose eyes might roll over when you even bring up the issue – ask them what they think happened to the plane….
In Egypt, A Movement To Place Women In The Public Eye Women on Walls is a graffiti campaign designed to educate Egyptians about the difficulties faced by the country’s female population Sheera Frenkel BuzzFeed Staff Women on Walls just completed its most recent project in Cairo. The group of more than 60 artists tackles subjects…