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Walmart Plans To Capitalize On Primary Care Shortage By Adding Medical Services: UPDATE
Walmart Plans To Capitalize On Primary Care Shortage By Adding Medical Services: UPDATE stoweboyd: futuramb: Walmart shoppers may soon be able to get a physical or have an allergy test after picking up their groceries if the big-box retailer gets its way. The nation’s largest retailer sent out a request for potential partners last month…
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What about the impossible? Or the barely possible? Or the unprofitable, but possible and desireable? You see what I mean? How do yo get out of the rut of assuming that everything must be a product — desirable, profitable and possible — and actually innovate? Make new impossible things? Or new, weird things only desirable…
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laphamsquarterly: Lapham’s Quarterly is looking for a web intern. The LQ web intern is someone who is both future and past literate. You’ll get the issue online, help with social media, submit texts for the issue, fact check, and most importantly, you’ll write the Déjà Vu blog. This is a serious internship for seriously creative…
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Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor
Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor austinkleon: A history professor’s reply to students who say to him, “I want to do what you do.” I know that some of your other professors are encouraging your dreams of an academic career. It is natural to turn to your professors for advice…
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Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor
Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor austinkleon: A history professor’s reply to students who say to him, “I want to do what you do.” I know that some of your other professors are encouraging your dreams of an academic career. It is natural to turn to your professors for advice…
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austinkleon: A List Apart: Articles: Dark Patterns: Deception vs. Honesty in UI Design Great article on “dark patterns”—deceptive user interfaces that companies use to increase conversion. Removing dark patterns from any site involves a leap of faith. A company has to shift from a short-term quantitative measurement mindset to one that values relatively slow, steady…
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notgames: Should videogames lose all function?
notgames: Should videogames lose all function? killscreendaily: This time Ico, pereninnal “games as art” go-to example, has managed to snare the New Yorker’s Chris Suellentrop. While the piece is mostly a review of the rerelease of Ico and designer Fumito Ueda’s most recent game Shadow of the Colossus, Suellentrop does touch on the…