We here at milk* love reading our zombie, vampire and shades-of-whatever trilogies, but after finding this piece in the digital pub, Quartz, we’ve rotated in some Faulkner and Angelou. According to a recent study by the New School in New York City, people who read literary fiction are better able to READ MORE >
Every generation has faced challenges. I grew up in the instant food and synthetic fabric revolution, two innovations (Tang and polyester) we may have been better off without. Has Generation Y (those born between1980-2000) been given an extra challenging set of circumstances? They are not facing world war or a READ MORE >
The 2013 Fortune’s Most Powerful Women’s Summit was held in Washington D.C. last week (Oct 15-17). The event started as a list 15 years ago and has evolved into one of the world’s most extraordinary leadership communities. The world’s most powerful women in business (IBM, Xerox, Coca-Cola and more) have READ MORE >
Tiffany Shlain is an award-winning filmmaker, speaker, and founder of The Webby Awards. Like many of us, Tiffany is obsessed with technology and loves getting lost in the info overload found in cyber space. Three years ago, when Tiffany was faced with her father’s illness, she realized technology was distracting READ MORE >
Photographer and historian Marc Hermann has scrounged through historic crime scene photos in the archives of the New York Daily News and has perfectly blended them with contemporary images from those same locations today. The juxtaposition of historic/modern and grisly/ordinary makes for some interesting images. Real fallen gangsters, fluke plane READ MORE >
We’ve recently discovered Roads & Kingdoms, a beautifully designed digital magazine originally created in Burma as a Tumblr by members of the foreign correspondence, R&K has became a home for reports on everything from the Burmese civil war to dissident MCs to the perils of rancid crab. This fascinating site READ MORE >
For the past 11 years, New York City has been one of numerous cities around the world to open its doors up to the curious. Open House New York happens annually over the Columbus Day Weekend. This year, October 12 & 13, visitors can view over 350 iconic New York READ MORE >
We were always fascinated by the saying: “If you want something done, give it to a busy person”. Well, according to Sendhil Mullainathan’s article in last week’s Time Magazine’s Ideas section. It’s not time we have to worry about managing, it’s our bandwidth. By bandwidth, Sendhil is talking about the READ MORE >
In theory 60 percent of happiness is determined by our genetics and environment while the remaining 40 percent is up to us, so what can we do to maximize happiness? Martin Seligman, of the Positive Psychology Center at University of Pennsylvania, found in his research that the happiest people focus READ MORE >
“You sold my dead bird to a blind kid?! Lloyd, Petey didn’t even have a head!” dumb and dumber is a classic.