As the world’s climate becomes erratic and hostile, we might remold our cities from being expressions of our cold triumphalism to vessels and tools for inclusive, peaceful cohabitation with nature.
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Why Boredom Is Good For Your Kids
MUNICH — To be a parent is to be a victim. That’s at least the message some parents convey. Yes, of course children are wonderful and sweet and all that jazz. But let’s be honest, aren’t some of the things children say just annoying? “I don’t liiike it.” “I don’t waaant to.” “Are we theeere […]
Two entrepreneurs have seized on a business idea first founded in Dallas, a place where people who want to dispense with their aggression can destroy set rooms with castoff furniture. But does it work?
German artist Ignacio Uriarte knows all about the tedium of life as a 9-to-5 employee, which he ditched to create art riffing on the subject. Süddeutsche Zeitung sat down with him.
Much of the rhetoric around human resources strategy involves the idea that working in a team is the key to succees. But in some cases, researchers say, it can even breed laziness.
SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG (Germany) Worldcrunch Think of the most boring thing in the world: Tupperware? Celery? Jazz music? People talking about jazz music? That cool friend from college who can’t stop telling you how motherhood has changed everything… Now imagine a roomful of people giving enthusiastic talks about all these things, and you have the third […]