February 08, 2024 | Read Online Woman reveals emergency tips and hidden features for car owners that can be life-saving Owning a vehicle is not a luxury but also a responsibility and owners must be well-versed with their vehicles for efficient and safe use. It is […]
February 8, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Hello! If you’ve made it this far without getting on the TikTok bandwagon, don’t sweat it. The emphasis on its shop and ads means the app has gotten kind of bad, writes Katie Notopoulos. In today’s big […]
INSIDE SCOOP Andrea Chronopoulos for BI The sweet, sweet life of America’s DINKs Couples with two incomes and no kids are living it up like never before. READ NOW Insider Today Newsletter Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business from Wall Street to Silicon Valley […]
February 05, 2024 | Read Online Son saves father’s life thanks to the first-aid lessons he received at primary school Teaching kids about basic first aid and healthcare in school can always come in handy during times of crisis. Thanks to a 7-year-old’s knowledge about health […]
View in browser Subscribe INSIDE SCOOP Courtesy of Melanie Dunea After Bobbi Brown’s 25-year noncompete agreement ended, she launched a cult-favorite beauty brand She spoke with Business Insider about building a new makeup brand, family, aging, and more. READ NOW Insider Today Newsletter Get the inside scoop […]
January 30, 2024 | Read Online Millionaire to give away her inheritance worth $27 million to strangers for a mind-blowing reason There has been an increase in the divide between the rich and the poor over many years. The alarming rate requires that humanity take a […]
If there’s one lesson I took away from Caitlin Moscatello’s class-rage-inducing portrait of elite college consultants, it’s that for every well-meaning effort by college admissions officers to level the playing field, there will be a greater effort by the 0.1 percent to tip the scales back in their […]
January 29, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Welcome back! If you’re still curious about what prompted Netflix’s movie boss to depart, it seems like it was a dispute over quality versus quantity. In today’s big story, we’re looking at why this is such a big week […]
January 27, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Welcome to the weekend! If you want to improve some of the relationships in your life, check out this rundown of the six different types of communication styles. In today’s big story, we’re looking at why cruise ships, including one […]
Here’s Who the Online MAGA World Wants as Trump’s VP David Gilbert With Trump’s nomination all but inevitable, the former president’s most fervent far-right supporters are already debating who should join the 2024 ticket. READ Robot Car Crash Investigation Concludes GM’s Cruise Didn’t Disclose Key Information Aarian Marshall […]
January 25, 2024 | Read Online Sponsored by Texas student is adopting baby he found covered in ants in trash can: ‘I took a leap of faith’ Jimmy Amisial was visiting his home country in Haiti when he heard the screams of a baby coming from […]
A Celebration of Transgressive Ideas Rachel Haywire Jan 25, 2024 At the end of 2023, I threw my first Cultural Futurist Salon on Substack. The results were even better than I expected. All it took was bringing my favorite people together to speak, read, and perform. I decided […]
January 24, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Hey there! We seem well on our way to a rematch of the 2020 US presidential election as Donald Trump secured a decisive win at the New Hampshire Republican primary. In today’s big story, we’re previewing Tesla’s make-or-break […]
Two things are inarguably true in New York City right now: A lot of older office buildings are underoccupied because of the shift to remote work, and the housing market is as tight and overheated as ever. The obvious answer is to convert one kind of skyscraper into […]
How much do you love living in New York City? And if you have kids, how desperate are you to raise them here? Do you want it enough to sacrifice having a bedroom and the privacy that comes with it? In this uplifting story, Laura Fenton, author of […]
January 22, 2024 | Read Online Younger people are admitting baby boomers got these 17 things right “Kids shouldn’t be on phones or iPads all the time. It makes them weird.” In recent years, baby boomers have often been the target of criticism from younger generations. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Being a self-unemployed, thirtysomething, literary visionary can be a depressingly thankless existence. The pay sucks, the publishers are clueless, the editors are dicks and the endless barrage of finger-wagging rhetorical questions from the sanctimonious adults in the boomer […]
Laura Kolbe Month to Month What we as a society prefer not to know about periods extends beyond menstruation itself to its management and the management of women’s health more broadly. Christine Smallwood Time Unregained In La Captive, Chantal Akerman’s adaptation of Marcel Proust’s La Prisonnière, she offers us a […]
Don’t miss out on more stories you may enjoy. The One Part of the Vision Pro That Apple Doesn’t Want You to See Lauren Goode Apple’s latest series of Vision Pro demos carefully obscures one important hardware feature. READ Apple’s Vision Pro Headset Shows the Future of Computing […]
One Sunday last July, a hiker in Gunnison County, Colorado, told the authorities that he had found a “squatters camp” deep in the forest, with a simple nylon tent and a human form so decomposed he described it as a “mummy.” The body was that of a young […]
You’ll feel discomfort and you’ll feel outrage and I’ll feel fine Rachel Haywire Jan 18, 2024 This is an old piece of mine that has been updated a bit. With Cultural Futurist Salon II – Cabaret of Secrets soon approaching, it feels like a good time to share. […]
January 17, 2024 | Read Online We are so excited to announce that our very first book, GOOD PEOPLE: Stories From the Best of Humanity, is available for preorder TODAY! In partnership with National Geographic, we’ve spent the last year canvassing our community to collect 101 […]
Robert Stark Jan 15, 2024 Oral sex was taboo throughout much of Western History for cultural and religious reasons, as sex was considered to be purely about reproduction. Not to mention that bathing was not widespread for much of history. In his 2000 study, The Social Organization of Sexuality, […]
January 13, 2024 • 5 min read with Diamond Naga Siu Welcome to the weekend, buds. Hope you’re staying warm on this wonderful Saturday — a lot of the coldest temperatures recorded in every state happened during January. Speaking of weekends, I chatted with some time-management experts about […]
INSIDE SCOOP Todor Tsvetkov/Getty, Tyler Le/BI The quiet status symbols you’re going to be seeing everywhere in 2024 Unlike the logomania trend of years past, status symbols have gotten quieter — though no less expensive — in recent years. READ NOW Insider Today Newsletter Get the inside scoop […]
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more How To Be Happy – #SolutionsWatch The Corbett Report Jan 9 READ IN APP SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-happiness/ So, do you care what The Wall Street Journal says about what “The Science™” says about how to be happy? Yeah, neither […]
January 9, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Hi! CES officially kicks off today, but I’ve already seen some wild tech, including a transparent TV. (More on that below.) In today’s big story, we have a release date for Apple’s next big product. What’s on deck Markets: […]
January 6, 2024 • 5 min read with Diamond Naga Siu Happy first Saturday of 2024! If you plan on traveling this year, make sure your passport is in good condition. A family missed their dream vacation due to a one-centimeter tear in their son’s passport. Speaking of […]
January 5, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Happy Friday! For those of you in cold-weather cities, it’s the time of year when a snowstorm can upend your day. Here are 10 items to help you get out of a jam during a blizzard. Lucky for […]
I don’t believe in free will, not really, and one of the reasons why is lunch. I go to a build-your-own-whatever place, I contemplate the nearly infinite combinations of ingredients, I wind up ordering the same damn thing. Millions of Americans eat lunch this way, and one of […]
January 4, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Almost Friday! Did you know no human has ever beaten Nintendo’s Tetris? Well, at least that was the case until 13-year-old Willis Gibson reached the game’s “kill screen.” See for yourself the moment Wilson realizes he beat the […]
The End of Airbnb in New York Amanda Hoover Thousands of Airbnbs and other short-term rentals are expected to disappear from rental platforms as New York City begins enforcing tight restrictions. READ Dispatch from the Future: The Must-Have Gadgets and Gear of 2053 Gear Team To celebrate WIRED’s […]
December 30, 2023 • 3 min read with Diamond Naga Siu We made it to the last Saturday of the year. With less than 48 hours left in 2023, we’re bringing you a shorter edition of Insider Today. It’s a resolution-focused newsletter so that you can get a […]
January 1 2024 Heritage Foundation Experts Share Reading Recommendations for the New Year COMMENTARY By Brian Gottstein Heritage staff recommend books, old and new, as we begin the new year. More Here’s the Right Way to Deweaponize the FBI COMMENTARY By Mike Howell Today’s FBI bypasses the […]
January 1, 2024 • 1 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Happy New Year! If you’re looking to set some New Year’s resolutions, check out this advice from a life coach about creating goals you can stick to. Speaking of New Year’s resolutions, a common one is getting your […]
This is what we did to you Rachel Haywire Dec 26, 2023 Today we have a post-Christmas guest post from the mysterious hepcat known only as C.J. Heath. Note that while we here at The Cultural Futurist don’t necessarily agree with the opinions of our contributors, we’re not […]
December 26, 2023 • 2 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Welcome back, and happy Boxing Day to those who celebrate! You’re probably not in the mood to cook today, but that doesn’t mean you have to eat something unhealthy. Here are eight healthy takeout orders, according to a […]
December 25, 2023 • 2 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Merry Christmas! For those of you celebrating with friends or family, here are some tips from a Stanford lecturer on how to come off looking good at any holiday party. The Insider Today team is off, so we’re […]
His name is Brent Saunders. He’s a lawyer who made a fortune running drug companies while saying he didn’t even want to try to discover drugs. Now he’s lecturing Elon Musk on social responsibility. Alex Berenson Dec 20, 2023 (FIRST OF TWO PARTS: The Rise) American medicine is […]
December 22, 2023 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Happy Friday! If you’re going to the airport for some holiday travel, check out these tips from an expert so you don’t hold up the security line. In today’s big story, we’re looking at how Google’s rocky year […]
December 21, 2023 | Read Online In partnership with Single mom refuses to give up disabled baby with ‘low intelligence’, nurtures him all the way to Harvard When Zou Hongyan gave birth to her son at the Jingzhou District Hospital in China’s Hubei Province in July […]
How I got my voice back through screaming into the void Rachel Haywire Dec 21, 2023 Let’s start from the beginning of the year. After two decades of digital notoriety, I went through the experience of becoming completely invisible in the online world after deleting my X account. […]
December 20, 2023 | Read Online Kid’s brilliant homework response outwits teacher’s sexist question Sexism is prevalent and widespread only because we’re all conditioned from an early to accept existing sexist practices and gender roles. One eight-year-old looked past an obvious answer, to expose the inherent […]
December 19, 2023 | Read Online Today’s sponsor Nordic parents leave their babies outside to sleep in sub-zero temperatures and people are freaking out A video of a baby stroller left outside unattended sparked conversations about the practice of letting babies nap alone in cold weather. […]
December 16, 2023 • 5 min read with Hallam Bullock Good morning! I’m filling in for Diamond Naga Siu today, reporting to you from London. As always, this isn’t your bogstandard newsletter. It’s chockablock with stories for you to enjoy this weekend. So, kick back and have […]
December 15, 2023 | Read Online Autistic woman ordering room service offers rare insight into internal struggles What the person on the other end of the phone doesn’t see is an entire story unto itself. One of the weirdest parts of being human is how none […]
Sponsored by Young sisters mistake cashier for Maui from ‘Moana’ and he graciously played along Two young sisters were extremely excited when they thought they’d run into their favorite animated character from “Moana.” Little Ryley and Rylyn of Oahu, Hawaii, were in for a tremendous surprise when they […]
Cultural Futurist Salon I – Total Renaissance Wanna have some fun? Rachel Haywire Dec 14, 2023 Salons originated in 17th-century France. They were intimate gatherings that fostered an environment of creative collaboration, playing a pivotal role in shaping European intellectual and cultural life. I’ve been carrying on the […]
December 14, 2023 | Read Online UPS driver shares his weekly paycheck, and now everyone wants to apply People are shocked to find out how much delivery drivers make. People are seriously considering switching careers after finding out how much can be made as a UPS […]
INSIDE SCOOP Visual China Group via Getty Images; Ben Bergman; Rebecca Zisser/BI Adam Neumann created a secretive billion-dollar startup to transform apartment living I was the first reporter to step foot inside. READ NOW Insider Today Newsletter Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business from […]
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