We found this meditation on brand building in the Harvard Business Review fascinating. Cultural Strategy author, Douglas Holt, talks about how much harder it is to build a brand in the era of social media. Initially, branded content appeared to be the key to creating substantive relationships with customers, but READ MORE >
Did you know that there are more Chinese restaurants in the United States than McDonald’s, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Wendy’s—combined? Wow. According to journalist, Jennifer 8 Lee, American-Chinese food is a cuisine that’s practically all its own. When mapping all the Chinese restaurants in America the map doesn’t READ MORE >
Could 2016 really be the tipping point when the physical and virtual worlds finally merge? That’s the dream and TechRadar.com has compiled this list of 10 technologies hoping to make the dream come true. In our personal lives we should continue to find more and more information everywhere and on READ MORE >
In the 8th Century, probably due to a massive earthquake, the neighboring Egyptian cities of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus vanished into the sea. For over a thousand years, they existed only as myths until the 1990s, when a European diving team discovered the remains of a temple that once stood in READ MORE >
Spot won’t exactly “speak,” but Georgia Tech researcher Melody Moore Jackson is working to find a way to allow the Spots of the world to communicate a lot clearer. Currently if a hearing-aid dog hears a doorbell or a baby crying, they are taught to lead their master to the READ MORE >
These days, every company is looking to be as efficient as possible, and milk* is too, but we’re careful to make sure there’s room for creativity. We found this piece in the Harvard Business Review that pretty well sums up our challenge. While highly efficient people move quickly through tasks READ MORE >
Russian biologist, Yegor Malashichev is looking beyond humans to explore the mystery of left vs. right-handedness. Human beings were once thought to be the only species with a consistent bias for one “hand” and with 90% of humans favoring the right since the time of the Neanderthals, much of the READ MORE >
There are several young parents at milk* so it’s no surprise that the topic of education comes up often at the lunch table. We were fascinated by this piece on the future of education. The Atlantic paints a picture of 2035, with students sitting in front of a massive screen READ MORE >