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Felix Wants To Help Frustrated Freelancers Get Paid
What’s the one problem freelancers complain more about than anything else? It’s getting stiffed—or getting paid long after the job is done.With the number of freelancers growing, a group of...
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How Far Can California Go It Alone After Trump Withdraws From Climate Accord?
Capital & Main is an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political, and social issues.Californians who watched cable news on Thursday before, during or after Trump’s...
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How Intel Is Using VR To Try To Change Sports Viewing Now And Into The Future
There are hundreds of millions, if not billions, of passionate sports fans around the world. And yet, according to Intel, no more than 1% of those people will ever get to see their favorite team in...
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Can This Detroit Twentysomething Change The Democratic Party Before Politics...
It’s a Friday night in late March in Raleigh, North Carolina, and everyone at this hip two-story bar has spent the afternoon talking about politics. At one end of the bar sits a 29-year-old man with a...
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Dear Art School Grads, Do What You Love—But Never For Free
Congrats on earning that diploma! Now you’re ready to hit the job market—or possibly break the news to your parents that you don’t intend to, because what you really want to do is become a full-time...
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How Trump’s Funding Cuts Will Make America More Toxic Again
Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of the Love Canal crisis, when toxic chemicals were found to be leaking from an underground dump into homes in Niagara Falls, New York. State and federal...
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These Google StreetView Cars Are Now Mapping And Measuring Pollution
If you stand next to an experimental Google StreetView car in Oakland, you’ll hear whirring. On top of the vehicle–below the usual cameras taking photos of the street–a mechanical system with pumps is...
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Learn How To Love Talking In Public (And Stop Saying “Um” And...
Four out of 10 Americans regularly worry about not having enough money for the future. And one in three fear the U.S. will be involved in another world war–just as many report concern over global...
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Six Things You Can Negotiate For Other Than A Higher Salary
You’ve been brushing up on your negotiation skills in anticipation of that big job offer. But, once you land it, you’ve gotten a big surprise: The company doesn’t negotiate salary.For a variety of...
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I’m Stack Overflow’s COO—Here’s How To Hire (And Keep)...
As commencement ceremonies wrap up across the country, throngs of new grads are revising resumes, networking—a few might be prepping for one last summer of travel—but they’re almost all thinking about...
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How To Make Your Gap Year Valuable To Prospective Employers
Last year, Malia Obama made headlines when the White House announced that she would defer her admission to Harvard in order to take a gap year. The news gave rise to increased scrutiny of the yearlong...
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National Geographic Goes Beyond Trailers With New Content For...
It might have been the least expected Super Bowl win ever–not just the Patriots historically dramatic comeback–but the fact National Geographic had what many considered the best big game ad of 2017, a...
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Why $200 Adult Security Blankets Are A Stroke Of Startup Genius
Gravity, the self-described “weighted blanket for sleep, stress, and anxiety,” recently raised over $4.7 million on Kickstarter. Maybe the product’s developers meticulously orchestrated this...
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Hate Your Boss? It Might All Be Your Fault
When it comes to liking your job, the way you feel about your manager could be the deciding factor. In fact, according to a recent employee engagement survey, 50% of people who quit identify their boss...
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Covergirl Is Challenging The Stigma Against Women Doing Makeup In Public
Is there anything wrong with women applying makeup in public? If you saw the signs on New York City subways that equated a little blush with toenail clipping, you’d certainly think so. There’s...
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Equinox Just Added 20 More Letters To The LGBTQA Community
For brands, building a campaign that makes a political statement or takes a clear position on a polarizing cultural issue is nothing short of a gamble, where good intentions weigh none. What matters is...
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Why To Get Excited About A Black Hole Crash 3 Billion Light Years Away
For the third time in a year and a half, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory has detected gravitational waves. Hypothesized by Einstein a century ago, the identification of...
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4 Things Private Businesses Can Do To Lessen The Impact Of Trump’s...
President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement last week makes the U.S. one of just three countries the world over—the other two being Syria and Nicaragua—to opt out of the...
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How The Online Dollar Store Startup Hollar Found Success With Thrifty...
David Yeom knows his way around a dollar store. Growing up in East L.A. in the 1990s, he would spend weekends hunting for deals in the discount shops with his mother. He has vivid memories of carefully...
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Can Spatial 3D Audio Reinvent Live Music?
This concert sounds insane. It’s not just that the electronic, laser-like sounds coming from the modular synthesizer onstage recall an intergalactic battle from a sci-fi movie. It’s that they’re firing...
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