I write freelance articles about design, culture, business and all kinds of other things. As a journalist I pursue unusual stories about ordinary people. I love quirky facts that touch on larger trends, how unnoticed little parts make up a whole picture. Real life is terribly interesting, and people are much more inventive than you’d think.
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All of us can be difficult to work with at times, in ways we’re usually blind to. Here’s how to deal with others (and your own flaws) to defuse difficult work situations, from the authors of Mean Girls at Work.
Every Office Has Its Bullies. Here’s How to Outwit Them.
All of us can be difficult to work with at times, in ways we’re usually blind to. Here’s how to deal with others (and your own flaws) to defuse difficult work situations, from the authors of Mean Girls at Work.
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Having lived for multiple stretches of time in Berlin, I’m now fluent in German. But when I first became tentatively fluent, for a brief and intensely strange period I recalled exactly under what circumstances I learned each word – the backstory of vocabulary in miniature. This infographic recalls some of those seminal tales.
Some German Words and How I Learned Them
Having lived for multiple stretches of time in Berlin, I’m now fluent in German. But when I first became tentatively fluent, for a brief and intensely strange period I recalled exactly under what circumstances I learned each word – the backstory of vocabulary in miniature. This infographic recalls some of those seminal tales.
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Fictional, Imaginary, and Impossible Colors
What if more colors existed than just the ones we can see? Creative types have invented fictional colors, while scientists have explored expanding our color perception to impossible-to-see shades. Still other colors exist only in imagination, as either a philosophical construct or a color visible only to the mind’s eye.
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Pink is for Battleships
A history of a decidedly unladylike color. Published on Slate.com, February 2010. Read now.
