The social media influencer Chriselle Lim has a huge international fan base via her many Instagram followers, YouTube subscribers and readers of her website, The Chriselle Factor. Most recently, she added a creative agency, Cinc. Studios, to develop digital content for clients. (She is sometimes paid …

Is there any artistic medium that the legendary avant-garde theater guru Robert Wilson hasn’t tackled? As it turns out, exhibition design is one of them. At age 76, Wilson has collaborated with some of the most critically celebrated minds of our time—among them Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Tom Waits, and Marina Abramovic—and is himself a […]

Many people do whatever they can to try and eat healthier, with different goals in mind. Some people say they’d like to lose weight, some say they want to have more energy, and to others, it’s about improving their quality of life. But whatever a person’s reasoning is, the first question often is where and […]

Many critics consider Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, published in 1821, to be the first explicit exploration of the creative process and drugs. Since then — well, there have been a few more. Whether it’s booze (writers), heroin (rock stars), or cocaine (anyone with money), we’ve long associated, and romanticized the link between, intoxicants […]

A strong earthquake in Taiwan has killed at least two people and injured more than 200 others, officials say. The powerful 6.4-magnitude tremor struck at 23:50 (15:50 GMT) about 20km (12 miles) off the island’s east coast. Emergency responders have rescued about 150 people from hotels and residential buildings that have partially collapsed in the […]

 A winter storm will dump snow and freezing rain on the U.S. Midwest and the Northeast beginning on Tuesday after it caused several deaths as it snarled highways and spurred the cancellation of hundreds of flights at Chicago’s main airport. The National Weather Service warned commuters in northern Texas, east through southern Illinois and Indiana, […]

The Oscar-nominated short documentary Knife Skills has been acquired by Condé Nast Entertainment. This follows last year’s acquisition when the company acquired the Oscar-nominated short documentary Joe’s Violin, also for The New Yorker’s “The Screening Room” which features award-winning short films. The film, directed by Thomas Lennon (The Blood of Yingzhou District), follows the launch of an haute cuisine restaurant […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, the most powerful launch system on Earth, roared into the sky on Tuesday afternoon atop a pillar of smoke. The rocket’s three reusable boosters lifted the vehicle skyward, sending Elon Musk’s personal Tesla Roadster on a journey toward Mars orbit. Musk, SpaceX’s founder, was worried that the experimental 23-story rocket might explode with the force of […]

Former employees at companies such as Google and Facebook are pushing for tech companies to rethink and redesign addictive and intrusive tools under a new organization called Center for Humane Technology. The Center for Humane Technology is partnering with nonprofit Common Sense, which advocates for kids and families in the digital age, on a campaign […]

The distributed ledger technology which makes up the backbone of the Blockchain has already been adopted by legal firms, healthcare providers, retail and manufacturing, and even the food industry. The business value-add of blockchain is expected to grow to more than $176 billion by 2025, and to …