New Hampshire’s State Senate has become the first legislature in U.S. history with a female majority. After Tuesday’s election, the legislative body consists of 13 women and 11 men.(Source: WSJ and NPR via NCSL)
Needham, Massachusetts, Town Manager Kate Fitzpatrick has become the first city official to put the idea of emotionally intelligent signage into practice.As the Boston Globe‘s Lisa Kocian reports, Fitzpatrick enlisted local middle school “students to design signs that would slow down their parents and older brothers and sisters” because existing signs weren’t do the trick
Over at the Fast Company blog, my pal Charles Fishman (of The Wal-Mart Effect fame) offers up two truly startling factoids.The first is yet another indicator of how weak the economy is. Last quarter, Fishman reports, Whole Foods posted a profit of $1.5 million. According to Fishman, that means the average profit at each store was $64
Take one historic day. Add one inexpensive pocket video camera. What do you get?55 seconds of democracy.Herewith, a video from inside the voting booth.
This morning, I moseyed over to Iowa Electronic Markets to see what the futures markets were saying about tomorrow’s election. (If you’re not familiar with IEM in particular, or prediction markets in general, click here or here.)Not surprisingly, people investing real money in election futures contracts give Barack Obama a whopping 90% chance of victory
Earlier tonight, Drayton Foltz sent me this video. (Some of you might have received your own version of it, too.) It’s one of the most brilliant pieces of marketing I’ve seen this year.
Last week I announced our new feature: Pink’s Travel Tips. Today, I roll out Tip #1 — one of my very favorites, the killer app for staying healthy on airplanes. (Warning: This video might gross out some of you. Viewer discretion is advised.)
In an impressively audacious statement, researchers at the University of Hertfordshire have announced that they have created “the world’s most relaxing room.” The space is bathed in green light, which apparently helps deliver those tantalizing bursts of dopamine to our brains. But taken as a whole, the room’s design elements seem to mimic the experience of, uh,
The core argument of AWNM is that left-brain abilities remain absolutely necessary — but that in a world of Asia, automation, and abundance, they’re no longer sufficient. The current BusinessWeek cites new research that offers another factual brick in this wall: “A new study concludes that social skills can be a better predictor of future earnings than
In the endless experimentation that is the Internet and that (sometimes) is this site, we’re rolling out a new feature: Simple, easy travel tips delivered via the power of Internet video. Think David Allen meets Dr. Oz . . . in an airport TSA line . . . on video.Or something like that. Remember: It’s an experiment.The sleepy-eyed intro
