Ben Thompson

When will the US have an Equal Rights Amendment?

It’s been 98 years since the Equal Rights Amendment [https://www.npr.org/2020/01/15/796754345/virginia-ratifies-the-equal-rights-amendment-decades-after-deadline] —which would expressly forbid any sort of discrimination on the basis of sex—was first introduced. A century of fighting later, it’s both closer than ever to being added to the US Constitution, and out of time. Amending the Constitution is a two-step process, requiring first passage by Congress, then ratification by three-fourths of t

NASA

Greater empathy in the workplace can heal society

Even before the disruptive and damaging events of 2020 and early 2021—a global pandemic, a racial reckoning, economic uncertainty, and the most divisive political climate in living memory—our society has had a larger, more encompassing problem. We have an empathy deficit. For a lot of reasons we can point to—stark political divisions, the isolation made easy by technology, the deterioration of civility—we have given up on understanding our fellow humans. We’ve collectively lost the ability to

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IKEA has replaced its print catalog with an audiobook

When IKEA canceled its beloved print catalog [https://qz.com/quartzy/1036380/ikea-catalogue-2017-defining-domestic-bliss-in-different-cultures/] last year, it hinted at plans to venture into new formats to better reach an increasingly internet-dependent customer base. The world’s largest furniture company bolstered its e-commerce platform, built a better mobile app, and opened a string of small retail outlets in urban areas around the world. In what may be its zaniest gambit yet, IKEA has launc

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