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July 07, 2015
• For havoc, bloodletting, and all things uncivilized, may we direct you to The Baffler no. 28—our longest yet! —which arrives on newsstands today. In it, we’ve salvos by David Graeber, Heather Havrilesky, and A. S. Hamrah to offer, as well as a ...

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July 06, 2015
• The Greeks say, “two watermelons cannot fit under the same armpit” when someone bites off more than they can chew. For example, when Latvian “Mr Euro” Valdis Dombrovskis attempted to argue that the Greek referendum “neither legally nor ...

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July 01, 2015
• Today in Bespoke: Is your supercar failing to stand out in a sea of supercars? So make your supercar more super still! Here—let us direct you to the manufacturer now catering to that armor-plated circular thinking popularized by the superrich; it offers to ...

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June 30, 2015
• Got a startup and on the lookout for some seriously dubious career advice to internalize? Try this chunk of wisdom, from the FT: “To defy the startup odds, try pitching like a poet.” The similarity between startup entrepreneurs and poets are, of course, ...

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June 26, 2015
• After two crashes, Elon Musk is “uncertain” whether his third Falcon 9 rocket will be able to make a successful landing on the drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You.” The Tesla CEO’s SpaceX venture aims to provide cheaper, privatized ...

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June 25, 2015
• With its new venture, Sidewalk Labs, Google is making its terrifying entrance into the world of urban planning. According to Susie Cagle, the company seems to be taking as its model its own sprawling corporate campus, whose expansion was blocked because of a frightening ...

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June 24, 2015
• Linkin Park, of “In the End” and “Numb” fame, is taking the path less traveled from band to venture capital fund. Though established enough to have sold 60 million records, Linkin Park have declared they would rather be a tech startup (high on ...

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June 23, 2015
• Beta Boston takes stock of Kendall Square’s five-year vibrancy binge—last week Royal Philips moved in to join Amazon, Biogen, Pfizer et al—or, rather, just unquestioningly calls the area’s fast-tracked evolution ...

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June 22, 2015
• This weekend saw Narendra Modi lead the first International Yoga Day, with the controversial Indian prime minister playing up the benefits of yogic exercises to the realms of health, happiness, and national unity, as well as yoga’s role in fighting ...

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June 19, 2015
• Pundits warn that tech workers could soon become “as hated as bankers” for their industry’s current boom and the havoc their newfound profits are wreaking on cities like San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, and Austin. For an in-depth look at the mess ...

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June 18, 2015
• Proving that a company can never be too big to pull off that hip, startup vibe, CVS opened a new “digital innovation lab” this week. According to one CVS exec, These not-at-all-terrifying projects will be carried out in a sleek new office in Boston’s ...

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June 17, 2015
• Over at Pacific Standard, Alana Massey pulls up the research that explains why men congratulate themselves for doing more childcare than they truly do. “[F]athers’ desires to be present for their children,” one study concludes, ...