Editor’s note: This piece article is part of our Columnist Network series, which explores the tactical thoughts and actions from Adweek’s community of high-level experts. Today, Havas Creative’s Stephanie Nerlich discusses how she is part of a people-first businesses, and wants to find leaders who want to do the best work their careers. Below, in…Read More
The giant prehistoric Carcharocles megalodon (or Otodus megalodon for some researchers) was the largest predatory shark to ever swim in Earth’s seas. Scientific evidence points to megalodon having lived between 16 million and 2.6 million years ago, going extinct at the end of the Pliocene Epoch when the world’s oceans were much colder than today’s. Over the years, several research papers have estimated meg’s size. Its teeth are shaped like large, flat triangles with serrated edges — much like the teeth of living white sharks. White sharks, along with mako sharks and the porbeagle shark all belong in the family…
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Google Maps is a great way to find your way around cities and towns of the world. However, it’s not perfect. You might find yourself at a dead-end in the app, while there’s a perfectly good road in front of you in reality. I know, I’ve been there. As someone who lives in complex geography like India, I’ve seen more roads than I could count that are not listed on Google Maps. Fortunately, the big G has…
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The Netherlands, despite its small size, is rich in culture, history, and beautiful sights. The country is famous for its canals, colorful tulip fields, picturesque windmills, traditional clogs, a great variety of cheeses, and its bicycling culture. The Netherlands is also one of the leading electric vehicle markets, both in Europe and globally. In 2020, 21% of all newly registered cars were battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and 4% were plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). This high rate of uptake, particularly of BEVs, is a testament to the progressive electric vehicle policies implemented over the past several years. To drive the electrification of…
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The hall of fame, any hall of fame, is an odd thing. On one hand, it celebrates the status quo and scarcity. On the other, it’s a mark of transitions, evolution and diversity. The people inducted into Cooperstown or some other hall of fame in 2021 probably don’t look or act the way the founders of that institution imagined.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is accepting votes right now, and Fela Kuti is up against Iron Maiden and other stalwarts of the genre.
And his nomination helps us understand what Scott Page means when he talks about the value of diversity within organizations. There are no all-clarinet orchestras because the combination of instruments is precisely why orchestras work.
Pythagoras discovered the fifth hammer, the one that doesn’t sound quite like the others–and that is the hammer that makes the chord work.
Fela Kuti was from a country 2/3 the size of the USA, and yet Nigeria has few musical stars in the US. His impact can be felt in just about all the music we hear, because his music was different, singular and remarkable.
If some of the musicians in the Hall had never existed, rock and roll would not be that different. There are easily available substitutes. But sometimes, a skilled, passionate and talented voice changes things.
Change can happen when a person’s contribution is unanticipated and boundary-stretching. As Carole King’s was. As Fela Kuti’s was.
Change isn’t easy to recognize as it’s arriving, but it’s impossible to forget once it’s here.
It’s Friday, folks, and I’ve discovered a great way to get in the weekend mood that I think you’ll enjoy. Earlier in the week, Google Arts & Culture created a new digital exhibit celebrating different pioneers of electronic music. It also released an interactive 3D synth tool as a part of that — and it’s highly addictive. You can head to the site on your phone or desktop browser and line up five well-known syth machines to play music using pre-defined grids and dials. These synths include the Moog Memorymoog, the ARP Odessy, the Akai S900, the Roland CR-78, and the Fairlight CMI. Don’t…
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A week after Google took a bat to email-based identifiers, the company announced it would rollout new tools to help data-rich publishers earn more from programmatic ads. Google announced it has begun expanding the use of publisher-provided identifiers (PPIDs), previously reserved for traditional and automated direct deals, for programmatic campaigns. In a nod to the…Read More
Not a year goes by that a phone maker doesn’t try some kind of gimmick with the camera system. But Oppo’s new Find X3 Pro has a gimmick that’s actually pretty rad: a camera that is practically a microscope. Well, Oppo is calling it a ‘Microlens’ camera, but whatever you call it, it’s able to magnify objects up to 60x. That puts it more the territory of a basic microscope (40x, 100x, and 400x are common magnifications) than, say, the cheesy macro lenses on some cameras, where you’re often just better off cropping a higher resolution. Sure, it’s not enough to resolution…
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Anthony Sullivan, an indefatigable TV pitchman for OxiClean and other products, stars in a new unscripted series called Kings of Kush. The 10-episode show, launching this week on A+E’s Vice, follows Sullivan as he and his partners become hemp farmers in rural Vermont. Top line Television networks are continuing to dive further into the cannabis…Read More
HBO Max is looking toward a more equitable future in media and entertainment with a campaign that champions Latin and Latin American creators. On Wednesday, WarnerMedia and HBO Max announced its new, Latinx-focused audience initiative, HBO Max Pa’lante. The campaign will highlight what the company refers to as “culturally relevant programming” while celebrating the idea…Read More
