by dave petraglia | May 27, 2014 | CULTURE |
(First published in Thought Catalog April 16, 2014) Whatever trends have come and gone in the world of style, women have not looked full-on 1980s of sexy for a long time. They look good, but not in that leonine, ratted, sprayed and covetable look like Prince’s band in...
by dave petraglia | May 15, 2014 | CULTURE |
(First published in Thought Catalog March 31, 2104) The t-shirt, staple of the American wardrobe. It’s casual, soft, simple, personal, social and ‘natural’, right? Not. It’s an environmental train derailment that spans two continents, which you pull over your head,...
by dave petraglia | Nov 29, 2013 | CULTURE |
An employee motivational meeting was held recently in the lunchroom of a national home improvement supplies retailer. Here’s part of the store manager’s address, secretly recorded on one employee’s phone: Manager: “I’ve had some feedback from corporate about our...
by dave petraglia | Mar 10, 2013 | CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY |
JFK Saves the World with an Etch A Sketch That could easily have been the headline in October of 1962. When the drawing toy first arrived in the US, there’d never anything like it. In an age of fingerpainting and Play Doh, and woven summer-school...
by dave petraglia | Jan 25, 2013 | CULTURE |
A ‘Real Life Carbon Footprint Calculator’. Take our test. We factor more than just carbon impact, using some calculations that just aren’t that common. Here’s why you should: no sooner did the ink dry on the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty...
by dave petraglia | Oct 27, 2012 | CULTURE |
A history of texting. A brand-new technology that’s over 170 years old. “What hath God wrought?” was the first message Samuel Morse sent on his spanking new invention, the telegraph. Less is made of the reply he got, which was really just a repeat of his own...
