Anyone who needs a replacement gidget or who buys holiday gifts or simply likes getting excellent prices on consumables pays attention to Black Friday sales. The period now stretches from Thanksgiving thru the following Monday (occasionally referred to as Cyber Monday) with details of deals increasingly available far earlier. It's been many years since I … Continue reading Bloomberg pictorial on how Black Friday became the essence of consumerism
Month: December 2018
Shoes to replace your Crocs?
Are Allbirds Shoes the End of Style? By Rachel Syme November 12, 2018 There is nothing exciting or sensual or dangerous about Allbirds. And yet there is a seductive pull in their promise of maximum comfort, simplicity boiled down to an eco-friendly gastrique. Photograph by Christie Hemm Klok / NYT / Redux The San Francisco-based brand Allbirds … Continue reading Shoes to replace your Crocs?
The New York Times has put out its list of the 10 best books of 2018
There's always some overlap between competing "best of" lists. I've read some of these and put aside with "NO" others, but it's always interesting to see what someone who reads broadly recommends: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/books/review/best-books.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Bill McKibben and New Yorker magazine equals a must-read on our planet’s future
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/how-extreme-weather-is-shrinking-the-planet With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts. By Bill McKibben California is currently ablaze, after a record hot summer and a dry fall set the stage for the most destructive fires in the state’s … Continue reading Bill McKibben and New Yorker magazine equals a must-read on our planet’s future
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