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How NASA psychologists are developing cutting-edge techniques to treat the mental toll of space travel
Jamey Simpson was 10 when he watched the space shuttle lift off from Kennedy Space Center with his mother, astronaut Cady Coleman, on board. A voice from a handheld radio counted down as fire spe...
Why Taylor Swift is arguably the most powerful person in tech
The biggest box office hit of October, and maybe all of the fall, is almost certainly going to be Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour. One research firm says that Swift’s Eras live concert tour, upon ...
POV: Pixar’s creativity isn’t working anymore
Pixar has been a poster child for corporate creativity , but it has a problem: It’s no longer producing the kind of movies that attract large audiences to theaters. Its most recent release, E...
The 10 most innovative music companies of 2022
Explore the full 2022 list of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies , 528 organizations whose efforts are reshaping their businesses, industries, and the broader culture. We’ve selected th...
Pace Gallery execs and Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective aim to disrupt the art world
Superblue, the experiential art center created by Pace Gallery executives, plans to open its first location in Miami in early spring, after COVID-19 derailed plans for a 2020 opening. (Emerson Co...
How a physicist and a robotics engineer created ‘Elinor Wonders Why’ to teach young kids science
Parents of children between the ages of 3 and 6 looking to supplement their children’s education this fall will have a new option starting September 7, with Elinor Wonders Why joining the PBS K...
COVID-19 robbed me of a beloved annual holiday. Here’s how I took it back
When the tinny phone speakers began to blare the rollicking piano of “Rock the Casbah,” the mood in the room soured. It’s probably not the response Joe Strummer and company intended, nor...
Why Yeti’s latest marketing masterclass is launching eight short films at once
For the last five years or so, Yeti has been cranking out some of the best branded content on the planet. And they sell coolers! Each of the brand’s films wonderfully chronicles the lives of ...
Can ‘Tenet’ save Christopher Nolan’s Hollywood?
The opening of a big summer movie is, in normal times, a Super Bowl-level event. Around the world, splashy premieres fuel media hype and, hopefully, ticket sales. Box office analysts begin crunch...
How comedian Ted Alexandro is handling the standup apocalypse
Ted Alexandro just put out his second standup special of the pandemic. Not bad for a “retired” comedian. “I’ve kind of tongue-in-cheek announced my retirement,” Alexandro says over ...
Naomi Osaka knows a commercial can’t end racism, but it’s a hell of a megaphone
When Naomi Osaka first walked onto the court at the 2020 U.S. Open, in a match against Misaki Doi, she wore a mask with Breonna Taylor’s name on it in order to use one of the biggest events in ...
With his bilingual Netflix special, Felipe Esparza is found in translation
Ever since Felipe Esparza put out his 2017 HBO special, Translate This, the Mexican-American comic has been trying to take his own advice. With the new, two-part special, Bad Decisions/Malas D...
New Balance stylishly declares Coco Gauff the next generation sports ad star
Sports—unlike, say, advertising—are built on the idea of unpredictable outcomes. Of course there are untold hours dedicated to talking about, and betting on, anticipated results—but ultimat...
‘The World Series of Spades’ on Facebook Watch converts the heated, joyous card game into shareable video
It’s hard to pinpoint why the game of spades is so popular in the African American community, but what we do know is that it has been a staple since around the start of World War II. It start...
‘Robin’s Wish’ erases the sad clown trope around Robin Williams’s death
When reports first started to surface in 2014 that Robin Williams took his own life, the narrative quickly become that of the sad clown: a brilliant comedian tortured to a tragic end by his own d...
Step inside the world of drag superstar Naomi Smalls—it might be just what you need right now
When Naomi Smalls first competed on season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race in 2016, she stepped into the Werk Room long on legs but short on experience. “I didn’t really know much about drag to b...
These 5 Chadwick Boseman quotes prove he was a hero off-screen too
The world is still collectively grieving the untimely death of actor Chadwick Boseman, who passed away over the weekend after an undisclosed four-year battle with colon cancer. In the days sinc...
This short film captures the loneliness of COVID-hit New York this summer
WHAT: An elegiac short film showcasing the beauty of New York during a moment of existential crisis. WHO: Writer/director Naz Riahi . WHY WE CARE: It’s a moment every literarily inclined Ne...
Selena Gomez’s new beauty brand wants you to know you don’t need makeup
When Selena Gomez teased the launch of her beauty line, Rare Beauty, to her 190 million Instagram followers back in February, she couldn’t have predicted how radically different the world would...
The fans guide to the Monica and Brandy Verzuz “The Boy is Mine” battle
When Brandy came on the scene in the early 1990s, she was seen as America’s Sweetheart. Then Monica debuted a couple of years later, and she made music for the moody girls with a little more ...