PruittHealth, an organization that operates about 100 nursing homes and assisted living centers, had a problem. Its workers were hesitant about taking a Covid vaccine. Care workers tend to be low-paid and are often distrustful of government. Many had already suffered from the disease, costing them sick leave and even vacation days. They weren’t in a rush to be the first to take a vaccine that...
On January 1, 1971, Henry Darger wrote an entry in his diary. “I had a very poor nothing like Christmas. Never had a good Christmas all my life, nor a good new year, and now… I am very bitter but fortunately not revengeful, though I feel should be how I am.” It was his last entry. Two years later, the hospital janitor died aged 81 at St. Augustine’s Home for the Aged. He was buried...
It was the final of the 2015 women’s soccer World Cup. Fifteen minutes had passed and already the USA was leading Japan 3-0. Two of the goals had come from Carli Lloyd who had scored twice in the first five minutes of the game. Lloyd received the ball in the middle of her own half. She took one touch then another, caught up with the ball on the halfway line, glanced towards the goal, then belted...
It’s hard to avoid advertisements for Amazon Prime. If you’re not already a member, Amazon will ask why not whenever you open the website or browse Amazon videos on your television. Joining is as easy as pushing a button. Amazon, the inventor of the one-click purchase, makes buying smooth and easy. Nothing should get between a customer reaching for their wallet and the company charging their card...
Boom! Studios should have little trouble turning ideas into products. The comic book and graphic novel publisher has a stable of award-winning work and licenses with WWE, Cartoon Network, and the Jim Henson Company. It also has agreements with 20th Century Fox and Fox Television to bring its comic book stories to both big and small screens. And yet when the company wanted to create a new comic...
It was one of the biggest—and at the time, one of the most head-scratching—brand re-naming events ever. In 1993, rock star Prince declared that he was changing his name… to an unpronounceable love symbol. Faced with having to mime a combination of gender ideograms whenever anyone wanted to talk about the man behind Purple Rain and Sign O The Times, people soon started calling him “the artist...
For mobile app developers in 2009, life was easy. The iPhone was just two years old and had sold little more than 40 million units. The App Store had launched the year before, with an initial offer of just 500 applications. By November 2009, the store had generated two billion downloads from only 100,000 apps. The number of apps available varied from region to region though. So when Rovio, a...
People in China are used to seeing new constructions rise quickly. Sites are filled with workers, noise, sparks, shouting, and the constant movement of multiple cranes swinging heavy loads to high floors. Within a few weeks, what started as an empty plot has developed into a deep hole, then tall scaffolding, and finally the skeleton of a building, waiting for cladding. Few buildings, though, have...
Kate Mills’s job is to assess ideas. As an editor at Orion Publishing, she receives fiction manuscripts sent to her by literary agents and determines whether a market will buy them. The authors believe that they have created something that other people will enjoy reading. Their agents believe that they’re representing a winner. Kate Mills, like other editors has to decide whether they’re right...
Grime’s gestation lasted more than a year. In November 2018, the Canadian techno star registered a Twitter account called WarNymph. It wasn’t until January 2020, though, that the account received a matching Instagram stream and its first post. WarNymph, the world learned, was a winged baby with pixie ears and a bow and arrow. She grew up quickly. A few weeks after recording a message predicting...
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