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April 03, 2015
• In yet another report on the federal government’s slipping “innovation score,” Reuters finds that millennials looking for government jobs are more likely to seek out departments they perceive as having a culture of innovation. Luckily, President Obama has a ...

Daily Bafflements
April 02, 2015
• The Obama administration takes some flak for its low “innovation score” in a new survey. • WBUR reviews Scott Timberg’s Culture Crash, outlining his proposal for economic protections for the creative class that leave everyone else high and dry. • The rental market ...

Daily Bafflements
April 01, 2015
• TechCrunch recently hosted a meetup in Dubai for would-be startup entrepreneurs in the hopes of “disrupting” the Middle East. • Right in The Baffler’s own backyard, the Boston Redevelopment Authority is seeking to extend its “urban renewal authority” [read: ...

Daily Bafflements
March 31, 2015
• Dressing for Success: In a post on creative work attire that calls to mind our fashion-themed current issue, Amber Stott lets us in on how urban farmers and foodies can be just as innovative as Silicon Valley startup bros. • Rahim Madhavji recounts the woes of the ...

Daily Bafflements
March 30, 2015
• Baffler founding editor Thomas Frank talked bank regulation on WBAI’s Julianna Forlano Show this weekend. • Living in an area with high income inequality could be shortening your life, according to the New York Times. • In yet another round of waxing philosophical on ...

Daily Bafflements
March 27, 2015
• The investigator becomes the investigated: NYU professor and human rights activist Andrew Ross, who wrote in The Baffler about his travels and travails fighting for migrant worker rights in the United Arab Emirates, is now apparently the target of a “murky ...

Daily Bafflements
March 26, 2015
• Franco Moretti and Dominique Pestre apply quantitative linguistic analysis to World Bank Reports over the decades, in a piece called “Bankspeak.” An excerpt: “the semantic cluster of governance includes a series of terms which express a sense of compassion, ...

Daily Bafflements
March 25, 2015
• Following the Forbes bracket for startup jargon, Re/code now has a guide to VC jargon, from “magnet skills” to “power alley” to “too native.” Woof. (Via Kyle Chayka.) • “Stung by recent polling that showed only a third of Boston ...

Daily Bafflements
March 24, 2015
• Brokelyn continues to report on Brooklyn’s “preschool for adults,” for folks who are so oppressed by the ills of adult life that they are willing to spend several hundred dollars to join other similarly oppressed adults in games of musical chairs and ...

Daily Bafflements
March 23, 2015
• Today in Bespoke: the best part of this New York Times article about high-end perfume designed and manufactured for you and you alone (which will cost you around $30,000 to $50,000 at Jean Patou) is the staged photo up top. • The dress code for the extras in Ted ...

Daily Bafflements
March 20, 2015
• Referring to a new kind of technology that lets people broadcast live iPhone video to their Twitter followers, Dylan Byers at Politico declares 2016 “The Meerkat election,” writing that the app “debuted at South By Southwest last week and has now firmly ...

Daily Bafflements
March 19, 2015
• Lee Fang in The Intercept reveals that “security staff at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota used a fake Facebook account to monitor local Black Lives Matter organizers, befriend them, and obtain their personal information and photographs without their ...