Tom Standage take us through the beginning around 3000 BC with the wheel and moving through the era of horsepower, trains, bicycles, and the rise of the car – and the future of urban transport – into a broader historical context. Our society has been shaped by the car in innumerable ways , many of…
Sportswear brand Sweaty Betty founded in 1998, from London’s Notting Hill Gate which expanded rapidly on the back of the popularity of so-called athleisure fashion, favourites of Jennifer Anniston and Halle Berry, had been bought by US-based Wolverine Worldwide best known for selling footwear for £294.4m. Brendan Hoffman, President of Wolverine Worldwide, said “Sweaty Betty…
A Tokyo court sentenced US Special Forces veteran Michael Taylor for two years in prison and is son Peter for one year and eight months for their role in ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn’s escape from Japan in 2019, after the pair were extradited from the US over claims they smuggled Mr Ghosn out of Japan…
StHumans rely on plants to change consciousness to stimulate calm, or completely after the qualities of our mental experience. Michael Pollen explores three very different drugs – Opium, caffeine and mescaline and throws the fundamental strangeness of our thinking about them into sharp relief, exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around…
Johnson & Johnson announced voluntary recall of five aerosol sunscreens due to low levels of Benzene, which can cause cancer with repeated exposure. The company issued a statement announcing a voluntary recall and urged customers to discard the products if they had already purchased them. The Neutrogena aerosol sunscreens that have been recalled are…
Part Lebanese, part Brazilian citizen Carlos Ghosn, made the escape of his life at 10:30pm on a cold December night in 2019, by slipping unnoticed through the streets of Tokyo, with the help of a large music equipment box to smuggled him out of Japan and the elation he felt when he landed in his…
Funny memoir about sex, dating, and relationships in the digital age, intertwined with investigation into the challenges to love and intimacy wrought by dating apps by 49-yar-old famed Vanity Fair writer and New York Times-bestselling author Nancy Jo Sales asks who to blame for the modern dating malaise:tech companies. Jo Sales award-winning journalist and single…
In the Twentieth century the Avon Lady acquired iconic status in American culture, in the1890s David McConnell, a young travelling book salesman working door-to-door in the eastern US tried out a new method of direct sales. After branching out into perfumes, began recruiting women to market the products in their own communities and cultivate a…
In June 2010, while Ford Motors had a valuation of $38 billion compared to Tesla’s $1.3 billion. But 2020 swa fords valuation down to $28 billion while Tesla’s valuation shot up to $256 billion. Tesla ranks sixth among companies on the U.S. stock market and is now worth almost eight times GM and nearly 13…