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Socially conscious clothes Is it time to break up with fast fashion? If the answer wasn’t already a resounding yes, the past year’s worth of evidence of our warming planet should make you reconsider your fashion choices and the clothing brands you shop. Most industries are being forced to rethink their practices as consumers grow more conscious. Fashion...

Worst plants produce their emissions Each year, a sprawling coal power plant in Rogowiec, Poland, emits more CO2 than many countries—in 2018, roughly 38 million metric tons. It’s the most polluting power plant in the world. It’s also one of a relatively small number of power plants globally that are responsible for the majority of CO2 emissions from...

Amazon astromilanesi fastcompany As a technology analyst, I often have the opportunity to test devices before their general release. Sometimes they fall into a well-established category, meaning I know exactly what they are meant to be doing and how I would like to use them. Other times, I get to try something that’s one of a kind. For...

How to tost You’re at an awards dinner. Or maybe it’s a grand opening, or even a retirement party. You’re asked to say a few words, but you aren’t sure how to do it. How do you find the right level of mush–not too mushy, but just mushy enough? It’s a special occasion, so you want to give...

Delay in stimulus check Like millions of frontline workers around the country, Susan Pritchett was thrilled to learn that there would be a third stimulus check. Her hours were cut at the Illinois hospital where she works, and she was worried about how to provide for her family for the better part of last year. “There are not...

Noli timere Shortly before he died five years ago, the Nobel prize-winning Irish poet, playwright, and translator Seamus Heaney sent a last text message to his wife. “Noli timere,” it ended. “Be not afraid. When I read his son’s account of Heaney’s text, I was struck by the anachronistic juxtaposition–Latin across SMS. It was as though Heaney’s message had resuscitated a dead...

Salary increases 2016 Workers in many of the world’s labor markets have reason to celebrate in 2016—and they’ll have a little extra cash to do so. According to Korn Ferry Hay Group’s 2016 Salary Forecast, workers in most regions will, on average, see their biggest pay increase in three years. Real wages, which are average increases adjusted for...

Jerry chrome settlement email Those words should be welcome news for most people, but they’re oddly disconcerting when they appear at the top of an email from Google. That was the reality for many Gmail users this week when an email with the subject line “Notice of Class Action Settlement re Google Plus” appeared in their inboxes. The...

Facebook to bring mandatory distances reality Mark Zuckerberg is putting some more distance between his most famous creation and his big bet on the future. On Thursday, Zuckerberg announced that starting next month, users of the Oculus Quest (now Meta) VR headset would no longer need a Facebook account to log in. Instead, he said, the company will roll out separate accounts under...

What did the pyramids look like Go to the pyramids at Giza today, and you’ll see pollution blackened steppes surrounded by smog and sand. Some 4,000 years ago, the pyramids looked much nicer: They were covered in polished limestone, resembling brilliant lightforms dropped into the desert from the sky. In this short documentary put together by the Smithsonian Channel,...