The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom →
[A Pew Research Center survey] found that with the exception of college or military service, 37 percent of Americans had never lived outside their hometown, and 57 percent had never lived outside their home state.
Mobility has fallen drastically in several decades.
The Good War →
How America's infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience.
What Happens When the Richest U.S. Cities Turn to the World? →
"The economic base has shifted in a way that highly favors cities — and big cities — because it's now based on knowledge, on idea exchange, on agglomeration," said Mark Muro, the policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.
Google Maps's Moat →
With "Areas of Interest", Google has a feature that Apple doesn't have. But it's unclear if Apple could add this feature to its map in the near future.
Google is using its data sets to create data in a way that puts it far ahead of its competitors. A great explanation and set of visuals about how this works.
'Our democracy will not last' →
[F]or those who cherish American constitutional democracy, what matters is the effect on America and her people and her standing in an increasingly unstable world - made all the more unstable by these very fabrications. What matters is the daily disassembling of our democratic institutions. We are a mature democracy – it is well past time that we stop excusing or ignoring – or worse, endorsing - these attacks on the truth. For if we compromise the truth for the sake of our politics, we are lost.
— Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)
Understanding Grief →
"Pain that is not allowed to be spoken or expressed turns in on itself, and creates more problems. Unacknowledged and unheard pain doesn't go away. The way to survive grief is by allowing pain to exist, not in trying to cover it up or rush through it."
There is beauty in the emptiness of loss, because loss means I have loved.
— Lisa Leonard, "It Was Beautiful"
Building a sustainable campus in Silicon Valley →
As we continue to grow and plan for the future, Microsoft is modernizing our workplaces in all regions where we do business. In Silicon Valley, we are creating our smartest, greenest office yet.
So excited to see this come to fruition and proud to work for a company investing in such great concepts for employees and the environment. Don't miss the details behind our net-zero water usage goal.
"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" face masks and emoticons →
To celebrate the latest installment of Star Wars, starting today we are rolling out ten new Skype emoticons based on some of your favorite characters and icons. Characters like BB-8, Captain Phasma, Kylo Ren, Chewbacca, and an adorable porg — Chewie's newest pal to board the Millennium Falcon — are landing in your chats in time for the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
The greatest feature I never knew I needed from Skype:
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met →
Connections like these seem inexplicable if you assume Facebook only knows what you've told it about yourself. They're less mysterious if you know about the other file Facebook keeps on you — one that you can't see or control.
Behind the Facebook profile you've built for yourself is another one, a shadow profile, built from the inboxes and smartphones of other Facebook users. Contact information you've never given the network gets associated with your account, making it easier for Facebook to more completely map your social connections.