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Scrolling for cosmetic surgery on social media can be risky
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- Scrolling for cosmetic surgery on social media can be risky
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- 7:17
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- 8 years ago
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- Patients looking to get cosmetic surgery procedures are using social media to find their doctors. However, cosmetic surgery profiles can be full of stolen images, deceptive results, and no mention of board certification.
Quartz News goes under the knife with Instafamous doctors.
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- The secret life of kids on YouTube
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- 11:03
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- 8 years ago
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- Kids don't watch TV like they used to. They’re on YouTube.
Children’s entertainment online is wacky, full of surprise eggs, and nothing like the TV you watched as a kid. But the explosion of kids content also raises questions about how kids are advertised to on the internet.
Quartz News dives into the wild, weird world of kids on YouTube to understand how this new wave of kids’ entertainment came to be and what it might look like in the future.
We look at how the YouTube algorithm is gamed by kids videos — we watch unboxing videos, speak with Pocket.watch, sing along with"Baby Shark", look at "Ryan's Mystery Playdate", visit "Grace's Room", and more find there is so much more to kids' channels.
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- Foodie culture is now part of foreign policy — It's Gastrodiplomacy
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- 7:54
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Thai restaurants are abundant and popular in many parts of the world. This has a lot to do with the Thai government actively promoting Thai food overseas for more than a decade.
The strategy has been so successful that it inspired a new trend in foreign policy: gastrodiplomacy.
And food isn’t just a diplomatic tool for governments.
There’s a new kind of gastrodiplomacy on the rise, one that’s led by people who have left their governments behind. Quartz News went to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the refugee capital of America, to visit a 25-year-old gastrodiplomat who fled war in Somalia, rebuilt his life, and connects neighbors through his mouthwatering Somali samosas.
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- American foodies are finally embracing real Chinese food
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- 7:46
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Chinese food in America is changing as Chinese-American immigrant identity strengthens and China's global power surges.
With China’s economic boom, the image of its people has changed—and Chinese cuisine has developed along with it. Today, New York City is seeing a proliferation of upscale Chinese restaurants that prioritize ingredients, ambiance, and authenticity over catering to American palates.
Earlier waves of Chinese immigrants opened restaurants as a way of getting by; their lower socioeconomic status placed Chinese cuisine at the bottom of what food studies scholars refer to as the “hierarchy of taste.” But the young, upwardly mobile restaurateurs behind these newly-opened eateries are more concerned with self-expression than survival. It’s changing how Chinese food is perceived in America, and ultimately may reshape Americans’ ideas about taste
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- The biggest cannabis company in the world
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- 9:02
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Big Weed is already here.
The very biggest cannabis companies in the world, Canopy Growth, owns over a dozen brands (like Tweed). Based out of Canada, business is good after the legalization of recreational marijuana.
“Our goal is to be big and to be successful,” says Jordan Sinclair, the VP of communications at Canopy Growth.
That hasn't stopped premium growers, like Mario Sherbinski, from plotting success. He runs one of the splashiest brands in the new world of legal weed. (Recreational weed became legal in his home state, California, in 2018.) His company, Sherbinskis, sells premium product.
Is there space in the legal weed economy for corporate cannabis and boutique bud?
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- Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the trillion-dollar coach of Silicon Valley
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- 2:08
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- 8 years ago
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- Eric Schmidt on what made Bill Campbell a trillion-dollar coach for all the major Silicon Valley companies; Google, Apple, eBay, and Twitter.
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- Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, on why Silicon Valley needs coaches
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- 1:42
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- 8 years ago
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- Quartz interviewed Eric Schmidt about the lessons coach Bill Campbell offers all managers, his time serving on the Apple board with Jobs, and whether Silicon Valley is suffering from a crisis of leadership.
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- Your next car may be Chinese and electric
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- 7:25
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- When it comes to buying and selling electric cars, there’s China and then there’s everyone else.
Quartz News heads to Shenzhen, home to the world’s second-largest electric vehicle maker (after Tesla), to see how the push for EVs could be a model for the future.
BYD, which stands for Build Your Dream is a Shenzhen-based car company.
The Chinese company, CATL, just became BMW's official battery supplier.
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- Can the “immortal” jellyfish help cure brain disease?
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- 4:55
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Turritopsis dohrnii is a species of jellyfish that some scientists say can live forever by reverse aging, over and over again.
In a process called transdifferentiation, these jellyfish can transform their dying adult cells into new healthy cells.
Since they’re so hard to catch and keep in a lab, only a handful of scientists study how they do this. Their research may lead to insights about how to treat diseases like Parkinson’s by replacing lost or damaged neurons in the brain.
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- How Taiwan became the most LGBT-friendly country in Asia
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- 8:09
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- As far as Asian countries go, Taiwan is not very big. It is home to about 23 million people, compared to 127 million in Japan, and, you know, 1.4 billion in China. Even so, every autumn Taiwan hosts the largest gay pride parade in Asia. This year, more than 130,000 people showed up to march.
The reason such a small country hosts such a large parade is that Taiwan has become the most LGBT-friendly country in Asia. Last year, for example, its highest court declared that same-sex marriage would be legal within two years, a first in the region.
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- Immigrants could be the answer to Japan’s population crisis
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- 8:15
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Japan's government recently passed a law that will give work visas to hundreds of thousands of low-skilled foreign workers as it tries to replenish a rapidly shrinking workforce. The country, which has historically seen itself as culturally and ethnically homogenous, has a deeply ambivalent attitude toward immigration, and the new law is drawing its fair share of controversy. Opponents say it's too vague. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe insists the workers who enter Japan under the new law will be there only temporarily, sparking concerns it risks making immigrant workers second class citizens. Regardless, it is a major immigration overhaul in all but name, say observers.
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- Meet Granny Sunshine, China’s 71-Year-Old Fashion Model
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- 6:25
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- 8 years ago
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- Granny Sunshine (real name: Yang Guang (Chinese: 杨光; pinyin: Yáng Guāng)) is 71 and still working...as a fashion model. She is redefining aging in China where the wealthiest and oldest cities have a new booming “silver economy”. Quartz News travels to Shanghai to explore what happens when one of the largest workforces in the world gets old.
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- Hat Man nightmares and sleep paralysis are happening around the world
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- 5:54
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- 8 years ago
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- People across cultures have experienced seeing a shadowy figure as they sleep, he’s known as the Hat Man. When he comes, people find they are terrified, unable to speak or move, and are frozen by a very real condition, sleep paralysis.
The global anthology of Hat Man stories has only grown since. The shape of the frightening figure occasionally varies, but the way he makes his victims feel never does: utterly paralyzed with terror, and breathless, as if fear had frozen them from the inside out.
It's a nightmare.
The Hat Man has been the subject of documentaries and seems to have inspired one of the more chilling ghosts in the Netflix horror show The Haunting of Hill House.
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- Is Instagram to blame for why coffee shops everywhere look the same?
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- 5:03
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- In coffee shops all over the world, the same set of design elements keep popping up. What is happening? This week, Quartz News looks at the global look that's part Starbucks, part Silicon Valley, and very "Brooklyn."
If you’re in cities like Mumbai, São Paulo, Seoul, Paris, London, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos—anywhere, really—you might notice something: coffee shops are starting to look the same.
Distinctive design elements—Edison bulbs, reclaimed wood, potted plants, exposed brick—are popping up in coffee shops everywhere. It isn’t just the design of these spaces that are becoming increasingly uniform. The expectation of enjoying beautiful, artfully-decorated, high-quality coffee has spread to places as far-flung as Auckland, New Zealand, and Atyrau, Kazakhstan. (To understand this, just follow #latteart on Instagram.)
While it’s debatable where this look originated, it has come to be associated with one place: Brooklyn, New York.
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- Drinking wine after climate change means drinking rare bottles
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- 5:58
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- We'll be drinking wines we've never tasted before in the near and warmer future—because, climate change.
An increase in the planet's temperature over the past century is changing the global map of where we can grow wine grapes.
Soon, your favorite bottle of Riesling may no longer come from Germany, as it could well be from Tasmania. Imagine uncorking a bottle of champagne from England instead of France.
For many existing vineyards, climate change is prompting winemakers to rethink what grapes to grow. The family-owned vineyard Bodegas Torres in Spain is thinking entirely out of the box. They are looking for wine grapes that their Catalan ancestors stopped growing hundreds of years ago, to see if they can unearth hardy varieties that can thrive in warmer temperatures. And there is a lot waiting to be discovered.
Researchers say there are over a thousand planted varieties, but often a dozen varieties make it out into the globa...
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- China's President Xi Jinping is football obsessed
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- 8:21
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Becoming a football power is a big part of President Xi Jinping’s Chinese Dream, a vision of China’s future as a respected world power. Students as young as 6 are on the front lines of a massive government effort to make that dream a reality.
Quartz News traveled to China to see Xi’s plan in action.
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- Afrobeats is the Nigerian sound taking over pop music
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- 8:59
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- There is a sound in pop music you've been hearing a lot lately—it's called Afrobeats. And behind that sound is a story of how one African country's music went global.
Over the past decade, a new generation of Nigerian pop stars, like Davido, Wizkid, Niniola, and Tiwa Savage have seen the sounds of their Afrobeats music—not to be confused with the politically charged, big-band Afrobeat style of the legendary Fela Kuti—win fans far beyond Nigeria’s shores. The country’s music stars are selling out concert venues in New York, Paris and London, and performing at major music festivals.
Some of Afrobeats’ popularity is due to Nigeria’s vast—and affluent—diaspora around the globe. But crucially, social media, YouTube and access to global streaming sites like Spotify have also contributed to its spread.
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- Bill Gates on who should use your data
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- 2:01
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Bill Gates on how we should use data and when to worry about privacy. Gates believes there is an upside to making your data public. Gates was interviewed by Quartz in 2019.
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- How Bill Gates remembers what he reads
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- 2:13
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Bill Gates is a voracious reader. In conversation with him, it's striking how frequently he cites things he's read. So he doesn't just read a lot of books, but he remembers what he reads as well.
We recently asked Gates how he does it, and he has a very specific approach, as you can see in the video above.
To start, Gates recommends getting a comprehensive overview of a topic, so that you can then understand where various details you might read fit in.
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- Farms under the sea could feed the world in 2050
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- 6:05
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- 8 years ago
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- Agriculture may not be able to feed the extra 2 billion people that are estimated to inhabit Earth by 2050.
Quartz News' Erik Olsen dives into the world of aquaculture to find a sustainable food source for the planet. Eating mussels could solve the problem and help the planet — but are we willing to introduce them into our diet?
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- Should This Exist? - A new podcast [TRAILER]
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- 1:55
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- 8 years ago
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- Quartz is excited to be launching a new podcast Should This Exist? in partnership with WaitWhat.
Hosted by Caterina Fake, each episode will feature expert guests who will help inventors think through the human side of their new technologies.
With thoughtful discussion, a diverse range of voices, and fascinating tech inventions, Should This Exist? aims to answer the big question all founders should be asking themselves: how can this product be used for good?
The first episode will be available Feb. 21.
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- Esports players are training like professional athletes
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- 4:08
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- 8 years ago
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- Esports players train like traditional professional athletes with regular gym visits, performance coaching, and a nutritionist-designed diet. CompLexity, an esports franchise, is developing training that borrows straight from the books of professional football players – and there’s a reason for that.
As more money pours into esports, what it means to train like a professional gamer has changed. Jason Lake, compLexity CEO, refers to this industry shift as “esports 3.0.”
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- Why some hurricanes are most deadly after the storm
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- 6:22
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Over a year since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, and we've put together the most extensive record yet showing who died and why. The data holds lessons that could save lives when the next hurricane strikes.
Quartz investigated the hurricane's death toll in collaboration with Puerto Rico's Center for Investigative Journalism and the Associated Press.
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- How to name a product, from the man behind Swiffer and BlackBerry
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- 3:55
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- 8 years ago
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- Have you ever wondered how products get their names?
Swiffer, BlackBerry, Febreze, Dibs, Dasani– all these brands have one thing in common. They are products named by a small firm in Sausalito, California, called Lexicon Branding.
The firm, founded by David Placek, has invested heavily in an area of linguistics called “sound symbolism,” which tracks the associations evoked by specific letters, across languages and cultures. They found that ‘v’ conjured energy and aliveness– think Corvette and Viagra– while ‘b’ and ‘t’ recalled reliability– as with BlackRock; T-Mobile; and BlackBerry, which Lexicon named. Placek and company know how to name a product.
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- Puerto Rico's solar energy insurrection
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- 8:24
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- 8 years ago
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- At the end of the hurricane season in 2017, Hurricane Maria completely wiped out Puerto Rico’s decaying energy grid.
But the destruction has provided the rare opportunity to radically transform the island's electrical system into one of the most advanced the world has ever seen: the power grid of the future.
Quartz explores Puerto Rico's investment in solar energy and alternative solutions to the conventional energy power grid as the country rebuilds and reinvents infrastructure.
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- Meet the biohacker using CRISPR to teach everyone gene editing
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- 6:07
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- 8 years ago
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- Meet the biohacker who wants to teach everyone how to edit genes
Josiah Zayner is a biohacker who thinks everyone should be able to change their DNA with biotechnology called CRISPR. That’s why he founded a company called The ODIN, which sells do-it-yourself biotech kits that teach people how to genetically modify bacteria and frogs. It's DIY gene therapy.
His company has sold tens of thousands of experiments using CRISPR, an inexpensive and precise gene-editing technology that has revolutionized the field.
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- The Icelandic Language "digital extinction" ?
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- 5:20
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- 8 years ago
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- In a world dominated by English-language products and technology, Iceland and its people are fighting to keep their Icelandic language learning relevant.
Most digital devices only work in a handful of languages, for Icelandic to remain relevant online — Big tech needs to be on board and Iceland needs a vocabulary that evolves with modern times. To do this the Icelandic language board of linguists are creating new words from old Icelandic Viking roots.
The Icelandic government efforts could hold lessons for the 3,500 languages set to disappear over the next few generations.
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- The future of factory-made bread can be tasty
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- 5:18
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- 8 years ago
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- Nicolas Bernadi’s bread factory runs 24 hours a day, churning out organic bread, croissants, quiches—many destined for bakeries across San Francisco or the shelves at Costco. His goal is simple: scaling high-quality baked goods without ingredients that read like a long chemistry list. Healthy bread making at a large scale production.
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- China's 'soft power' in Kenya
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- 8:36
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- 8 years ago
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- In Kenya, China is everywhere. And with Mandarin schools and massive infrastructure projects, China's trying to grow its "soft power" throughout Africa. But can China convince Africans to love it?
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- Shrimp made from algae that looks and tastes like the real thing
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- 4:38
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- 8 years ago
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- Shrimp, the United States’ most popular seafood, is notorious for being farmed using practices that destroy the environment. New Wave Foods, a startup based in San Francisco, has set out to create a sustainable replacement.
The key ingredient in its "shrimp", which is actually 100% vegetarian, is algae, a plant that is already found in everyday items. The algae gives New Wave Foods' shrimp its pinkish color and ocean smell.
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- Visual illusions that could trick our tastebuds and persuade us to eat healthier
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- 5:34
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- A small team in London is using experimental psychology to cook up the next great meal. Oxford professor Charles Spence and chef Jozef Youssef are exploring the role all our senses play when we taste food, given the importance of our brains in how we perceive flavor.
Their experiments aim to trick our brains into imagining we're eating a decadent meal, when in fact we're eating something with just the fraction of the calories. The duo plays with colors and shapes to nudge people into believing a dish is sweeter than it actually is, and they deploy visual illusions to prompt diners to choose a more sustainable protein like rabbit over duck.
These sensory-enhanced dinners are a testing ground for ideas that could one day become commonplace and help the world eat more healthily and sustainably.
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- Made in America? Look closely at cars and you may be surprised.
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- 8:26
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- 8 years ago
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- What actually makes something American?
In 2018, that question is at the heart of America’s economic policy—buy American, hire American. But the answer, it turns out, is pretty complicated, especially when it comes to one of the most iconic of American products: Cars.
Quartz reporter Preeti Varathan traveled to rural Kentucky to understand what exactly makes a car American in the era of global trade. If “Made in America” is ultimately about supporting American workers, is it possible a foreign car could be the most American?
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- Can play save the world?
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- 5:00
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- This class in Dhaka, Bangladesh is part of a global experiment to bring play to kids.
At more than 513 “play labs” in Uganda, Tanzania and Bangladesh, kids participate a child-centered curriculum built by a team of global play scholars delivered in a space designed by architects, right down to the corners for stories, crafts and dreaming. The model, funded with $8.8 million from the Lego Foundation and Porticus, and delivered by BRAC, the world’s largest NGO, has been developed over the past three years and draws from BRAC’s over 40 years of experience developing schools for the poorest members of Bangladeshi society.
Wealthy parents worldwide send their children to preschools and nurseries that sound a lot like this one—places that incorporate research on child development and neuroscience to enable children to learn through play. But such opportunities are often unavailable for children in the world’s poorest communities, who are more often foun...
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- How feminists in South Korea paved the way for #MeToo
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- 8:28
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- The #MeToo campaign has been a driving force in global feminism for almost a year now. But in South Korea, women's rights activists were fighting for equality long before #MeToo arrived.
Quartz reporter Isabella Steger traveled to Seoul to understand not just how local feminist movements paved the way for #MeToo, but how #MeToo now fuels those same movements.
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- Title
- More than a playground, this is an urban thinkscape
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- 5:04
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Urban Thinkscape is more than just a playground. It was designed by a team of psychologists and architects to encourage families to play while waiting for the bus.
The researchers behind the project argue that play is crucial for early childhood development and that there needs to be more of it built into public spaces — more than a playground for kids.
In 2050, 70% of the world’s children will live in cities. If the team can prove Urban Thinkscape’s success, it’s a concept that can be replicated almost anywhere.
Urban Thinkscape footage courtesy of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University: http://developingchild.harvard.edu
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- Title
- The high-tech future of fashion
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- 8:05
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Almost every piece of clothing you own was made, in some part, by a person. Clothing manufacturing still lags years behind industries like cars and electronics in automation of labor, but new technologies like lasers and 3D knitting could radically transform how garment factories operate around the world, finally bringing the fashion industry to the tech future.
Quartz fashion reporter Marc Bain explores how the notoriously low-tech apparel industry is now on the cusp of a new era of customizable, mass-produced fashion.
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- Title
- Sans Forgetica is a font that's hard to read, but will boost your memory
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- 1:22
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- RMIT University in Melbourne revealed Sans Forgetica, a new custom-designed font that, according to its creators, helps readers retain what they read.
The clunky, hard-to-read sans-serif font would probably be considered a bad design by typographers, but Sans Forgetica is functional because of the inelegance of its letterform.
RMIT claims that Sans Forgetica is the world’s first font designed to boost and improve memory and uses a learning principle called ‘desirable difficulty’ to achieve results.
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- Title
- Why cryptocurrency is loved by oppressive rulers
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- 7:27
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Freedom. Democracy. Equality. That’s the promise of cryptocurrency. Blockchain technology was built to decentralize governments and the power of financial institutions, so why is it so appealing to authoritarian rulers?
Quartz reporter Preeti Varathan looks at how President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro is creating its own crypto (the Petro) to maintain Venezuela's grip on power. Meanwhile, Venezuelans are mining bitcoins in an attempt to circumvent intense inflation.
And Maduro is not the only leader or government with their eye on a crypto workaround.
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- Title
- Why widescreen feels epic
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- 15:50
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Widescreen feels cinematic. When black bars come down and a show goes into widescreen, it feels more like a movie. More intense. More epic. The shape of a screen changes how we feel about it, and wide just feels different.
But that feeling is an invention. We had to be taught it. And really, we had to be sold it.
Quartz's Adam Freelander does a deep dive into movie history from Thomas Edison to Cinerama and Pan-and-Scan to "TV Safe" Shooting (or Open Matte, Shooting Flat, etc) and back to the very device that you are watching this video on — the entire aspect ratio explained.
#widescreen #obsession
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- Title
- The Future of Aging
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- 9:49
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- The world has never been so old, and it’s about to get a whole lot older. By 2050, the number of people aging over 65 worldwide will nearly double, to 1.6 billion. And in places like the United States, the baby boomers are becoming poorer as retirement savings dwindle and the costs of housing and healthcare rise.
And a growing cohort of American seniors have found an extreme solution. They’ve given up on owning homes and taken to the road, living in vans and RVs, to become nomads, chasing seasonal work as farm hands or as workers in Amazon’s CamperForce warehouses. While many have adopted this life out of financial necessity, they’re also an example of another trend.
Many healthy people want to find a way to stay productive. This means the end of retirement is coming because many seniors are inventing a whole new stage of life, as midlife careers wane and something entirely new begins.
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- Title
- This FedEx employee drops packages for a living
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- This guy has dropped packages at FedEx's packaging laboratory for more than 20 years. He even has a degree in packaging science. Packaging technicians custom design packages and test their durability to understand the best ways to ship packages and ensure quality deliveries.
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- Title
- The economic case for open borders
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- 7:58
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Around the world, politicians are clamoring to shut down their borders and tighten control in a wave immigration reform. But the tiny island of Singapore—a rich, thriving, financial hub—has opened its doors to migrants.
Quartz reporter Preeti Varathan traveled to Singapore to try to understand why more countries aren’t following Singapore’s lead when it comes to immigration policy. Turns out, there’s a catch.
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#openborders #immigration
- Title
- How to give gifts like a professional
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- This professional gift giver says there are ways to give better presents. The first tip? Don't give gifts around the holidays.
We interviewed John Ruhlin in 2016. Companies hire him to give presents to their clients. Ruhin also takes on gift giving etiquette so that gifts don't seem obligatory or seem to have strings attached.
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- Title
- Medical scanner takes 3D images of the whole body at once
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- 2:09
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Researchers at the University of California, Davis have created the first scanner to capture an image of the entire human body at once.
EXPLORER is an incredibly efficient PET/CT scanner and that's medical imaging could be used to detect cancer and different types of diseases, as well as for drug research.
The breakthrough medical technology can scan much faster or with much lower radiation doses relative to other scans in nuclear medicine, and the researchers expect to install the first machine in early 2019.
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- Title
- South Koreans are checking themselves into prison to relax
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- People are paying to go to prison in South Korea because life is too stressful.
A fake prison called “Prison Inside Me” has become a retreat for harried South Koreans looking for a clean break from the daily demands of their careers. Paying visitors are issued a standard blue uniform and must follow the facility’s strict rules. Prisoner guest can even spent time in solitary confinement. Time in this prison is an escape from modern life.
Prison Inside Me in Seoul has hosted a few thousand visitors in the past few years. Many of them are seeking temporary solace from the stress in this resort disguised as a jail.
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- Title
- China's Factory of Ideas - Chinese internet culture exported
- Runtime
- 6:38
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Get ready for the future of the internet, courtesy of China—Tech giants like Weibo, Alibaba and Tencent spent years growing behind the Great Firewall, nurtured by the Chinese Xi Jinping government. Now, they’re using their power, technology, and influence to shape all of our digital lives.
Quartz reporter Isabelle Niu examines China’s multi-billion-dollar live streaming industry to understand how China is transitioning from being the world’s factory of things to a factory of ideas. Will the live streaming celebrity with revenue streams from virtual gifts business model be the next Chinese import? Will LiveMe take off in Silicon Valley?
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- Title
- The Future of College
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- 8:53
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- It’s hard to imagine a future for college that isn’t touched by the ongoing digital revolution. But the disruption coming to higher education may not be what we expect. On-line courses may well transform how universities deliver knowledge, but economists say digital learning isn’t likely to replace universities entirely.
In a world where technology is upending jobs and industries at an ever-faster pace, graduates may need to retrain and learn new skills long after they’ve received their diplomas. This could mean colleges may become more necessary than ever, but only if they rethink the time spent there as a single stage of life.
That’s why institutions like Georgia Tech are betting on a future where schools welcome back students throughout their careers, helping them stay competitive in a job market that’s transforming faster all the time.
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- Title
- Amazon's play to win India, one island delivery at a time
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- 2:35
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- Any Amazon parcel that arrives at Havelock Island in India undertakes an extraordinary journey by road, air, and sea.
Before Amazon's online shopping and delivery arrived on tiny Havelock, best known for its pristine beaches and breathtaking scuba diving, it could take weeks or even months to get hold of something from the mainland, and usually at double the price for shipping. Most e-commerce sites would deliver only up till Port Blair, the capital, an hour-and-a-half away by the fastest ferry.
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- Rigs to Reefs: a new life for offshore oil drilling structures
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- 4:26
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- As the oil drilling platforms off the coast of California age and stop producing oil, the oil companies are faced with the very expensive task of pulling them out of the Pacific Ocean. This is a costly problem for the oil industry, and one of the many problems oil companies create at risk to the environment.
Underwater many of the oil rigs are abundant with sea life, which has some environmental experts are advocating leaving the offshore oil rigs in place to serve as artificial reefs and support struggling marine animals and turn a blighted structure into something more ecologically productive.
Quartz news video takes you under the sea to see the unexpected cohabitation of ocean life with oil rigs.
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- The Future of Water
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- 10:11
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
- Description
- The world’s supply of cheap and clean fresh water will likely plummet as the climate warms and populations boom. Can we find ways to conserve, cut waste, and find new sources before it’s too late?
The latest installment of our What Happens Next series looks for solutions in an unlikely spot: a city perched on the edge of the world’s oldest desert. For the residents of Windhoek, Namibia, the arid future arrived long before the growing freshwater crisis made headlines around the world.
And this city responded to worsening cycles of drought by tapping water resources from a radical source that was already on hand: wastewater from their own city sewers. And while the technology for building a toilet-to-tap management system isn’t new, the mindset required to do here offers a lesson to any city facing an increasingly arid future.
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