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Oreo (and the Rest of the World) Capitalize on “Thrones” Mania

April 12, 2019

HBO’s “Game of Thrones” will be making its return on Sunday, and like just about everybody else, Oreo knows it. To celebrate the occasion, they’re releasing limited-edition cookies featuring famous symbols from the show. The cookies will be the same Oreos we’ve all known and loved for so long, but READ MORE >

Happy Birthday Harry

July 11, 2017

Could you imagine a world without Harry Potter? It’s hard to believe there almost was. But on June 26, 1997 struggling author J.K. Rowling finally published ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ after countless years of rejection and the world of literature was forever changed. The now billionaire author used READ MORE >

Food For Thought

May 12, 2015

We’re pretty lucky at milk* to be working with several clients who believe in long-term sustainability and giving back. We also hate to waste, that’s why this piece in the Huffington Post caught our eye. Recently, France’s parliament voted to forbid big supermarkets from destroying unsold food, requiring them to READ MORE >

Crushing Work Boredom Like It’s Your Job

March 2, 2015

Picture this. It’s 2:30, the peak of office boredom. Lunch has put you in a food coma and doing work is the absolute last thing you want to do right now. The problem is, people are milling about and while you’re sure it’s just Tracy from the cube over, there’s READ MORE >

Weekend(delicious)dish.

June 24, 2014

Summertime weekends are the best time to unplug from your normal routine and read something new. Recently, our leader extraordinaire, Joe Sequenzia shared with us one of his favorite Sunday unwinds, The Weekendish from the BBC News Magazine. Each weekend, Weekendish pulls together a collection of some of the very READ MORE >

What Makes Something Funny?

April 3, 2014

Does humor have logic? Can it be reduced to a formula? Is it possible to analyze a joke without killing what makes it funny? Dr. Peter McGraw, the founder of the Humor Research Lab at the University of Colorado and writer, Joel Warner went on a 91,000 mile road-trip through READ MORE >

Lonely Planet’s Youthful Makeover.

April 3, 2014

Have you ever thumbed through a Lonely Planet travel guide? Almost everyone has, they’re the largest publisher of guide books in the world. In 2013, billionaire Brad Kelley shelled out a reported $80 million for the Australian based company and, to the surprise of many, put a 25-year-old named Daniel READ MORE >

Spritz Promises to Boost Reading to 500 Words a Minute.

March 18, 2014

According to James Locke of the start-up Spritz, 80% of your reading time isn’t spent reading, but physically moving your eyes from word to word and from line to line. The idea behind Spritz is to keep the eye stationary and allow this amazing new technology to move the words READ MORE >

What have milk*’s featured speakers been up to?

March 4, 2014

Poet Laureate, Baron Wormser, has just released his long-awaited new novel, Teach Us That Peace. With wit, empathy and honesty Wormser captures the power and fragility of the human spirit in 1963 when racial harmony was becoming more than an American dream. He says, “The question in all my work READ MORE >

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s an Amazon Drone!

December 20, 2013

Who doesn’t prefer shopping online? Finding exactly what you want, in exactly the size and color you want while cross checking several stores making sure you’re paying the best price while never leaving he comfort of the couch? That part is great, but then, you have to wait. Well, that READ MORE >

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