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With U.S. marketers spending in excess of $350B on advertising in 2023, napkin math suggests that even a little waste is a lot of money.

Holy crap, is there a lost Shakespeare play out there? A linguistics conference is solely dedicated to the R sound. Is the AI pin the future of technology? Don’t count E Ink technology out just yet. Automakers have started using recycled materials for car interiors. Minnesota is crowd-sourcing its new state flag design, unfortunately. A new turbine deign could revolutionize wind power. An AI-powered robotic beehive that can help beekeepers save honeybee colonies. A New Hampshire distillery has...

Using Photoshop to enhance his photography, William Hall’s exhibit is now on display at Petit Branch Library

With San Francisco unable to enforce the unworkable state vending laws, the city is turning to a new hot dog hero: You.

In this episode, we dig into the savory history of the area's tiny, white slider-serving diners.

The radical ideas of one generation become the common sense of the next. Here, Peter Dreier honors the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainstream.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something,” Upton Sinclair said, “when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” A corollary to that famous maxim is that it’s not all that difficult to get someone to understand something if it’s going to fatten their salary. That’s the story of ESG’s rise and fall.ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance, and investors who follow its do-gooder guidelines have become a culture-...

Republican governments across America have passed anti-ESG bills, but that’s not why the investment principle has fallen out of favor.

Lard may seem old-fashioned but it's a classic pie crust ingredient. It's high melting point makes it easy to work with to create a crispy, flaky crust.

It's the kind of jump-the-gun October ad that brings the same excuse, year after year: “This may SEEM a little premature to you—but it really is NOT...