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A few years ago, I helped collar a Bengal tiger and translocate him back into the wild in Bardia National Park in Nepal. After, we tracked him for months, using data from his GPS collar. Tracking his movements, we saw him explore Bardia, establish a territory and circle a potential mate. And then one day, his signal stopped moving. We knew this might happen. Our team only found the collar. All signs indicate he was killed and sold off, piece by piece, to fuel Asia's growing market for illegal wildlife products. Читать дальше...

Arguments about washing the dishes isn't the only thing you share with your roommates. You also share much of your immune system.

You probably know Steve Case best as the man responsible for America Online. But two decades later, Case is continuing the charge to help the new generation of technology and business leaders define the critical path of internet and innovation to become much more useful to society.

This week, BuzzFeed downgraded its revenue projections, which sent media and advertising into a tizzy. If even a page-view juggernaut like BuzzFeed was struggling in the current advertising climate, what did that mean for the rest of the online media industry? But that's all missing the larger point.

After a car crash, police almost never investigate whether the drivers were on their cell phones—despite the fact that texting or talking on a phone may be responsible for as much as 37% of accidents.

The graphic design of the finance world is stodgy, boring, old-fashioned, and marvelously conservative. But money is sexy. So when approached by an influential group of New York security analysts to design a book predicting the future of the stock market, Pentagram partner Eddie Opara aimed to give them a design that was just as exciting and dynamic as money itself.

As health consciousness has become more universal, most people now have some sense of the number of calories in their food. But what do those calories really mean, beyond some vague sense of how many you should be eating in a day? How about this proposal: Food packaging should be labeled with "activity equivalent" information, says the Royal Society for Public Health's Shirley Cramer. Instead of a plain calorie count, a food's packaging "should show the exercise needed to expend its calories."

Picture the scene. It's a typical morning commute, marked by traffic congestion and frustration. Except this time it's not drivers complaining to each other about the traffic, it's autonomous cars. That sounds ridiculous, but it is the current trajectory for the future of personal mobility.

You're on your phone in the bathroom—and you're jealous.

You're on your phone in the bathroom—and you're jealous.

Loo, lavatory, bog, pissoir, khasi, throne, thunderbox, dunny, water closet: The humble toilet inspires a lot of wordplay, and why not? These most functional of conveniences are under-considered, despite being essential, civilizing, and, dare we say it, pleasurable.

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Loo, lavatory, bog, pissoir, khasi, throne, thunderbox, dunny, water closet: The humble toilet inspires a lot of wordplay, and why not? These most functional of conveniences are under-considered, despite being essential, civilizing, and, dare we say it, pleasurable.