Robert Ovetz explains this exact scenario in a recent article for Chief: The Voice for Workers. "Last October 31, one of the largest nonprofit organization staff in the country began… Read the rest of the article: What happens when your employer is a union and staff goes on strike?
A recent tweet from "*THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer," Nnedi Okorafor reveals the new cover for the novel Shadow… Read the rest of the article: "Cyborg Writer" Nnedi Okorafor reveals cover for forthcoming novel
In this 2018 video interview with John Kennedy from Radio X, legendary guitar artist and composer of orchestrated soundscapes Johnny Marr explains and plays the genealogy musical inspiration for the… Read the rest of the article: The Disco and Hip Hop origins of the "How Soon is Now" riffs and melodies
In the summer of 2022, Phoenix, Arizona-based professional skateboarder Ryan Lay floated the idea of recreating the Pushing Boarders skateboard event that had taken place in Malmö, Sweden, in 2019,… Read the rest of the article: Slow Impact is a four-day event bringing home the incremental effects of skateboarding
I believe that learning comes from life and living. Life and living can lead to a classroom or workshop, a fascination with reading, movies, or documentaries, or the joy of… Read the rest of the article: "Dig Where Your Stand", Swedish rallying cry for workers, translated into English for the first time
You've probably seen the videos of consumers trying to fit a large electronics purchase, often a large TV screen, into a vehicle not designed for a large TV screen. You… Read the rest of the article: Can you carry a 75-inch TV set home on a unicycle?
Specific sectors of the US population are angry, hurt, and vengeful that corporations are marketing and selling libations – whiskey and beer to all customer bases, angry at capitalism trying… Read the rest of the article: Besides Bud Light, what else is fratty?
Does nature nurture us to care for specific presentation of sentient beings – animals, insects, plankton, and humans? How does this socialization happen? Is there a code for cuteness? Have… Read the rest of the article: Do some animals have pretty privilege?
It might not come as a surprise that oil companies knew that energy consumption of fossil fuels negatively drives climate change and increases pollution on earth. Just like tobacco companies… Read the rest of the article: Big oil published "research" denying that fossil fuels drove climate change. Privately, they knew otherwise.
"Well, here is another Gen X thought of the day…We invented the playlist." The inherited world in the 21st Century is partly the result of what the Baby Boomers did… Read the rest of the article: Gen X thought of the day: "We invented the playlist."
Set to Five Finger Death Punch's version of "Bad Company," Johnson reminds us that safety is a perception with the title banner, "My entire personality is the 2nd Amendment." "I… Read the rest of the article: Meet Hex Johnson, the self-taught Navy Seal
Olga Dies Dreaming is an award-winning novel by Xochitl Gonzalez, published in 2022. War Against All Puerto Ricans by Nelson A. Denis is a history of the Puerto Rican Independence… Read the rest of the article: "Olga Dies Dreaming" and "War Against All Puerto Ricans" are the same book
Tsunamis are a specifically destructive force. A Hollywood trope and historically-charted natural phenomenon, the long waves are one of many reminders of the power of the earth's ocean. This 3-D… Read the rest of the article: Computer-generated videos of 10 largest tsunamis
Who misses the days when the sitting U.S. President would bestow his wisdom on the world? For example, insisting that drinking chlorine would cure the non-existent COVID-19 virus, intentionally made… Read the rest of the article: "Country Trumpkin" imagines country music hits from the former president
"Do a kickflip." This may be a familiar phrase from a video or life. You may have seen the "do a kickflip" video series from the Berrics, featuring Eric Koston… Read the rest of the article: What happens when a skateboarder kickflips a friend?
I promise you will be dancing by the end of this post, whatever dancing may mean to you: cutting the rug full spin, moving your hips on the chair, or… Read the rest of the article: Austin band Como Las Movies has deep roots
Why do some people in Orlando, Florida, want to outlaw feeding people who are hungry? Why do some people in Orlando, Florida, want to target people who provide people who… Read the rest of the article: Collectives and non-profits feed the hungry. Some people want to make it illegal.
In Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond, the Pulitzer prize-winning Princeton Sociologist explains how, in a capitalist society based on consumption, profit, and greed, wealthy people benefit from the poverty… Read the rest of the article: Pulitzer prize winner Matthew Desmond's "Poverty, By America" is about consumption, exploitation and how money trickles up
I saw Erykah Badu live with The Roots at the Hollywood Bowl in 2008, touring for the album New Amerykah Part One (4th World War). Badu played what I have… Read the rest of the article: Erykah Badu defines "woke"
"Nature is our teacher…All we have to do is pay attention" Before the garden of Eden was privatized by Christianity, it might have been a socialist cooperative. Ok, there were… Read the rest of the article: Food Not Lawns: growing veggies is the most human of activities
