16 Nov How Ads Follow You Around the Internet
Do you actually know the difference between a cookie that helps a website remember you and one that exists purely to follow you across the internet?...
Business
11 Nov How Marvel Went From Bankruptcy to Billions
If your company hit rock bottom financially, would you know which single asset to bet everything on to survive?...
11 Nov The sunk cost fallacy
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in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Big Think, Business, Management, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology
Have you ever kept funding a project not because you believed in it, but because walking away felt like admitting defeat?...
11 Nov The economics of K Pop
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in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Economics, Music, Politics, Polymatter, Popular Culture
When a music fan buys a CD they will never play, what are they actually purchasing?...
22 Oct 10 ways to have a better conversation
When did you last finish a conversation and think "that went really well" rather than just "that's done"?...
22 Oct How Zoom Defeated Skype Company Story
How did a product that was free, already installed on millions of devices, and backed by Microsoft lose to a startup almost nobody had heard of?...
22 Oct The real cost of smart speakers
Do you actually know what you agreed to when you set up that smart speaker in your home or office?...
18 Oct Beeple Explains The Absurdity Of NFTs
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in Art, B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Business Insider, Economics, Popular Culture, Technology
Can you own something that has no physical form and that anyone can copy for free?...
18 Oct Could digital currencies put banks out of business?
Could you explain, right now, the actual difference between a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and a digital currency issued by your government?...
18 Oct Inside LEGO House, Denmark’s tribute to the famous brick
What does it take for a toy made of plastic bricks to become the world's most valuable toy brand?...