Posts by Grazia British
Step inside the gorgeous, futuristic offices of Vast, the startup designing the next-gen space station
[ad_1] A tall baobab tree greets people inside the Long Beach, California, headquarters of Vast, an aerospace company that is building the space station of the future. It’s planted beneath a skylight in the center of a white-painted circular lobby furnished with a sleek aluminum reception desk and built-in wood banquette that follows the curve…
Read More5 ways high-performing teams stay calm when everything’s on fire
[ad_1] When markets swing, plans break, inboxes explode, and everyone starts saying the situation is “unprecedented” again, most teams do what humans have always done under pressure: they grip tighter. They add meetings. Escalate more decisions. Demand more updates. Work longer hours. And mistake motion for control. That response is understandable. It is also exactly…
Read MoreYour architecture is the ceiling on your AI strategy. Here’s how to raise it in 90 days
[ad_1] In April 2026, cloud-hosting platform Vercel disclosed that hackers had breached its internal systems and stolen customer data. The breach occurred because a Vercel employee had signed up for a third-party AI productivity tool using their corporate Google account and granted it full-access permissions. When that AI tool’s own systems were compromised, the attackers…
Read MoreThe American Revolution Wasn’t the Main Event
[ad_1] America’s influence went beyond haberdashery. Several of the world’s leading revolutionaries had spent time in the country. The English-born Thomas Paine started his radical career writing “Common Sense” in Philadelphia before serving as a delegate to France’s National Convention. Tadeusz Kościuszko, Henri Christophe, Francisco de Miranda, and the Marquis de Lafayette all fought the…
Read MoreThe Idea That Reshaped Identity Politics Has a Complicated Backstory
[ad_1] Plenty of scholars and journalists have written histories of these contentious terms, “intersectionality” and “critical race theory.” Now Crenshaw has written something different: a history of herself. In “Backtalker: A Memoir” (Simon & Schuster), she frames her life and her remarkably influential career as one long fight against various forms of exclusion and unfairness.…
Read MoreBarry Blitt’s “Red, White, and Kinda Blue”
[ad_1] For the cover of the May 11 & 18, 2026, special issue, themed around America’s 250th birthday, the cartoonist Barry Blitt portrays George Washington, the country’s first President, caught in the spirit of the moment. “There’s plenty to celebrate. Climate catastrophes are still somewhat infrequent . . . more or less. And, you’re free to express your opinion,…
Read MoreWhen Sexual Exploitation Is Fundamental to Police Corruption
[ad_1] None of this will be shocking to anyone who’s lived in an American city crippled by disinvestment and self-dealing—or even to anyone who’s watched a David Simon show on HBO. Even so, having it all laid out is bracing, and Tulsky’s book makes for a worthy entry in the canon of American injustice. Beyond…
Read MoreThe boardroom is opening its doors to add a new member
[ad_1] The business world’s most exclusive club has always been the boardroom. For decades, it has operated as a roped-off circle of experience, where pattern recognition, war stories, and collective gut instinct guided the biggest decisions. But the most recent quarterly earnings calls and 2026 spending projections across industries from tech to finance make it…
Read MoreHow gamification is transforming public health
[ad_1] At its core, public health is about driving healthy behavior changes by building awareness, meeting people where they are, and offering solutions that are accessible and grounded in evidence. Throughout my career, I have worked on issues ranging from foster adoption and drunk driving prevention to tobacco prevention and cessation, always with science as…
Read MoreThe five love languages of leadership
[ad_1] If you haven’t read the book The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman, you’re probably at least familiar with the idea behind it: that people give and receive care in different ways. Some value words, others actions. Some want quality time; others want gifts or closeness. Problems arise when two people in a relationship…
Read MoreHow an FCC letter kept Stephen Colbert’s interview with a Texas Senate hopeful off the air
[ad_1] Monday night’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert was missing something—an entire interview. But viewers weren’t left in the dark about why—host Stephen Colbert told his audience that CBS didn’t air his interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico due to concerns it could run afoul of shifting Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules.…
Read MoreWhy Frederick Wiseman Was the Greatest Documentary Filmmaker Ever
[ad_1] His work depended on access. He filmed in hospital rooms where patients and families faced incommensurable agonies with the aid of the medical staff (“Near Death”); he filmed in administrative offices (“At Berkeley,” “Ex Libris”), in businesses (“The Store,” “Model”), in government buildings (“City Hall”). Yet people tended to speak uninhibitedly in his presence.…
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