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A great new book by Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class.
In Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, Florida describes how a ‘creative class’ of people is changing the economic landscape by congregating in a shrinking set of cities […]

Enter the culture of overexposure.
They’ve been documented like no group before them, most especially by themselves: on their blogs, their MySpace, Facebook and Flickr pages, and on YouTube. And now the artistes are taking their turn, with a new wave of reality series, films and books examining the documentation generation.
But are we seeing real people, […]

(From Economist.com)
“DUMB and Dumber”, one of the modern classics of American comedy, tells the story of an affable idiot, Lloyd Christmas, who falls in love with a classy beauty, Mary Swanson. In one scene he asks her the chances of “a guy like you and a girl like me” ending up together. The answer is […]

I was in Israel. A country, a nation and a mystery. Beautiful and breathtaking. From the super modern Tel Aviv and his endless beaches to the electrifying Jerusalem with 1204 synagogues, 158 churches, and 73 mosques within the city.. I am thrilled and I don’t know why, but something wants me back. Perhaps my curiosity […]

More than half the people on earth now live in cities. By 2050, it will be more than 2/3 of us. However, we are currently not prepared for life in these intensely urban hubs.
Check out this super cool project, which aim is to study 19 cities with 20 million people to better understand population’s effect […]

Harvard Business Review’s annual Top 20 Breakthrough Ideas issue; always a fascinating mix of strange and cool and a little subversive thinking.
The List.

Clive Thompson strikes again, this time with a touchy piece on sadness; a particular kind of called solastalgia. It’s a mashup of the roots solacium (comfort) and algia (pain), which together aptly conjure the word nostalgia. In essence, it’s pining for a lost environment. “Solastalgia,” is a form of homesickness one gets when one is […]

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