ProPlay Mar 04, 2015 career gen z play ProPlay Uptime ... designers.• Thirteen-year-old Shubham Banerjee used a Lego robotics kit to build a braille 3D printer for blind people as a science project. Intel has invested in the product, known as “Braigo,” with the goal of developing it for the consumer market.• Eleven-year-old Sebastian Griffith’s Brickjest project translated—with the help of his English professor father—late author David Foster Wallace’s masterwork Infinite Jest into a series of detailed Lego scenes that went viral online among the pop ...
POP Trends Jun 12, 2014 media & entertainment retail books music TV ... virtual index cards and highlighted text to advance its simple tagline, “understand the news.”Nate Silver is the force behind data-driven news site FiveThirtyEight, which applies a quantitative approach to economics, science, and lifestyle stories.The New York Times has announced the impending launch of a new policy and politics site, called The Upshot, which will help readers “navigate” the news.The Intercept is an investigative news vehicle from First Look Media that makes a point to publish the ...
Outer Limits Jun 04, 2014 media & entertainment movies music style TV ... Building on their fascination with science in general, young people are demonstrating a particular growing interest in outer space.Recent, major discoveries in the field of cosmology have sparked a newfound social fascination with space exploration. In March, researchers alleged evidence of cosmic inflation (the theory that the universe rapidly expanded just after the Big Bang), a finding which, though contentious, generated a good deal of mainstream media excitement about cosmology. NASA’s ...
POPscape May 30, 2014 media & entertainment magazines movies music TV ... Viral Videos.”Fans that engaged with popular science channel VSauce also tend to be fans of gaming channel PewDiePie and comedy and entertainment channels Smosh and CollegeHumor.Nearly one in 10 fans of The New York Times’ channel also engaged with the TMZ channel.The unprecedented abundance of content now at users’ fingertips further inspires diverse preferences in individual consumers. Since all types of content are a mere click away, it’s just as easy to pull up a critically acclaimed documentary ...
Shop Class Mar 18, 2014 retail brick-and-mortar experiences shopping Fauxsumerism ... particular features, such as ‘smoky eyes’ and ‘flawless foundation.’ This past January, Selfridges London programmed a month-long Festival of Imagination for which the store commissioned architect Rem Koolhaas to design a modern amphitheatre. The resultant circular event space hosted interactive lectures, debates, classes, and workshops on art-meets-science topics like cloudspotting, biofashion, urban planning, and more. Apple stores offer free hour-long workshops in which attendees can learn the basics ...
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Social Studies Dec 18, 2013 media & entertainment content marketing social media ... , and stereotypically “geek” themes such as gaming, science, superheroes, sci-fi, and comics. Comedy Week featured a live-stream comedy and variety show, as well as new comedy clips, performances, and best-of lists curated by celebs. Geek Week proved, unsurprisingly, somewhat more insular, featuring Easter eggs hidden across the site, a Geek IQ quiz, and clips and trailers (both real premieres and parodies) celebrating the most popular elements of geek culture. HYPERLAPSE TRAVELYoung consumers are ...
Through the Looking Glass Dec 12, 2013 design technology gadgets mobile wearables ... , there is a learning curve that must be mastered, so it’s imperative that brands and marketers test the waters now while missteps are less visible. - FASHION - As reported byThe New York Times, Google is investing considerable resources in positioning Glass as a fashion accessory; the company even employs a group of women dedicated to the task. With the device currently bearing closer resemblance to something that might be worn in a science lab, the challenge is admittedly steep. Nevertheless ...
The Comment Box Dec 09, 2013 communication media & entertainment anonymous ... across Gawker’s digital properties and highlights the most interesting conversations happening in real-time. NO COMMENT(S) Still other properties have decided that no comments are better than some. In a move that proved controversial, Popular Science shut down its comments feature this fall, citing studies that suggest that readers’ perception of a story can be skewed by the tenor of the comments that follow it—to the extent that even their understanding of facts is afterward changed. PopSci ...