Enlarge / The buildings of the IHES. (credit: Dhananjay Khadilkar) Even before this year’s Fields Medal winners announcement, the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) or the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies, boasted a remarkable statistic. Since its founding in 1958, the institute has had 12 permanent mathematics professors; seven of them had won a…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Enlarge / Atop Falcon 9, CRS-25 lifts off on Friday night. Zooming in, you can see mosquitos dotted throughout the frame, backlit by the rocket exhaust. (credit: SpaceX) With little fanfare this weekend, SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets. The first booster lifted off on Friday night and carried nearly three tons of supplies to…
Enlarge / Dr. Anthony Fauci attends the National AIDS Update Conference as it meets at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium on October 12, 1989. Fauci at the time was based in Maryland, but he became a frequent voice for Bay Area residents following the AIDS crisis, even before he became director of the National Institute…
Stack Commerce Creating habits that you want to achieve is easy. But actually sticking to them? Not so much. Being productive 24/7 is frankly unrealistic, but it’s natural to want to strive to make the most out of your time as often as you can. How incredible can it be to function on auto-pilot, where…
Hulu has released a full version of “Angel in Flip Flops” from Only Murders in the Building Season 2. In the series, Steve Martin’s character Charles-Haden Savage released the song in 1989, and it was huge in Germany. At least, until the Berlin Wall fell and stopped its track momentum. Womp womp. Now, many years…
New records obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reveal how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its various divisions spy on people using smartphone location data. The ACLU got over 6,000 pages of records through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, which you can read in its entirety on the organization’s…
In “Marketing and Advertising Agency Growth Strategies,” a selected chapter from our full “Marketing and Advertising Agency Report 2021,” we detail three opportunities for future revenue growth agencies should prioritize. Simply enter your information to get a copy of this exclusive PDF and to start receiving the eMarketer Daily newsletter, which provides data, insights, and…
Marketing leaders share their experiences adapting to pandemic challenges and political upheaval over the past few years. Leaders were interviewed at the 2022 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity in June. The company executives featured in the video are from Roku, Molson Coors, Intuit, Lego Group, TikTok, PwC, IBM, Snap Inc., Sesame Workshop, Diageo, Accenture, and…
Democratic House candidate and former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Spencer Platt/Getty Images A new poll put former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in seventh place for his House run. Commissioned by the Working Families Party and NY Assemblymember Yuh Line Niou, de Blasio got 3%. The majority of undecided voters…
Marketing leaders share insight into what parts of their business have evolved, and what parts have stayed the same through the past few years of unexpected changes. Leaders were interviewed at the 2022 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in June. The company executives featured in the video are from Diageo, Amazon, Mastercard, LinkedIn, TikTok,…