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Inside the brand’s rise and fall and possible rise again after its disastrous sale to the Carlyle Group. When Julia took a job on Beautycounter’s product development team last year, she...
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4 ways to effectively beat self-limiting beliefs
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Our brains can think of many reasons why we’re not good enough. Here’s how to stop them from getting in the way of your goals.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: You...
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Capri Sun’s hilarious new packaging is graphic design at its most honest
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You can take the Capri Sun out of the pouch, but you can’t take the pouch out of the Capri Sun.
Drinking a Capri Sun isn’t just about the flavor. It’s about the...
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Here’s what makes work unhealthy
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In their new book, David Allen and Edward Lamont break down why so many workers are experiencing burnout—and what employers can do to help.
When one of our clients joined...
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Snooper Trucks: Specialty Vehicles for Underbridge Inspections
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As infrastructure spread across America in the 20th century, we learned that bridges periodically need to be inspected. Having a look at the road surface was easy; just shut...
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Drones vs. High-Up Graffiti
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Years ago The New Yorker had a reader contest, asking you to add one letter to a word, to make a new word that made sense. The amusing entry I remember was "giraffiti," meant...
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A Battery-Powered Jacket-Inflating Personal Cooling Device
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I started out wanting to make fun of this thing, but realize that's my climate-controlled-workplace privilege. I'm lucky I don't work in torching conditions anymore; years ago...
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Furniture with Wood and Stone Joinery by Ethan Stebbins
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I've seen lots of craftspersons who can join wood to wood. But I haven't seen many who can join wood to stone, with this kind of precision:
That's the Wabi-Sabi...
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Vessels Made from Wood Offcuts, Borrowing a Ceramics Technique
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What can you do with tiny offcuts of wood?
For Brooklyn-based furniture maker Richard Haining, the scraps of others are the raw materials for his STACKED series of...
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Peter Donders' Wind Bench Combines Digital Fabrication with Hand Shaping
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This Wind bench, by Belgian designer Peter Donders, combines digital fabrication with hand craftsmanship.
Made of birch plywood, the pieces were produced in slices on a CNC...
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Mechanical Engineering Students Invent Leaf Blower Silencer
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At Johns Hopkins University, a Mechanical Engineering class was given a difficult assignment: To silence an off-the-shelf leaf blower, without reducing its...
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Years ago on a trip to Death Valley, I slept in a tiny one-man tent. The host had provided a cot inside to elevate the sleeping bag. Although the space was coffin-like,...
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