An outgoing executive assistant to an MP is calling for changes to workplace culture and wellness policies on Parliament Hill after he tried to take his own life in the MP’s office last month.
Tag: ‘Culture’
A Rare Bird’s-Eye View of Hong Kong’s Vanishing Rooftop Culture
Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze captures daily life unfolding atop buildings in the crowded district of Kowloon. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b229f3aa928d042da61bd97/master/pass/Bamboo%20Weavers.jpg
Meet the Socialite Who Helped Preserve — and Destroy — Native American Culture
The first time Alice Cunningham Fletcher heard Native American music — a cacophony of drumming and screaming — was on an autumn camping trip among the Sioux in 1881. Yet all around her, people were dancing and enjoying the complex rhythms and ululations. Fletcher’s training as an anthropologist told her to ignore her own preconceptions […]
Culture, health combine as traditional dancer leads Powwow Fit in Winnipeg
With the powerful sounds of powwow music blasting from her portable speaker, traditional dancer Shanley Spence led a group of women through a fitness class that is part culture and tradition and part health and wellness.
Amsterdam’s youth culture
GETTY Secret annexes, science shows and stroopwafels, Amsterdam is an all-round winner for children And now Eurostar’s long-awaited direct service to the Dutch capital has finally started, I’ve brought my 12-year-old daughter Lola to put the city through its pre-teen paces. Eurostar’s new twice-daily route between London St Pancras and Amsterdam Centraal takes just three […]
Without Anthony Bourdain, Food Instagram Culture Wouldn’t Exist
For better or worse. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b1ad383ed19ac11dee5d2b7/master/pass/Anthony-Bourdain-GettyImages-845467194.jpg
Saudi Arabia appoints its first-ever minister of culture
Saudi Arabia established an independent ministry of culture on Saturday. Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan was appointed by royal decree to lead it. The new ministry was formed as an independent body after it was separated from the ministry of culture and information, “giving them more professionalism and specialization,” according to Saudi Press Agency. […]
Buy and Trade These Cool Pop Culture Trading Cards
Though you’ll never get them to admit it, sports nerds and pop culture nerds have a lot in common. After all, sport fans quantify their obsessiveness by memorizing facts, stats, and dates – the same way movie geeks can rattle off credits and box office numbers, while often pledging undying allegiance to “teams” that are […]
Chains from Starbucks to The Cheesecake Factory are being dragged into American culture wars (SBUX)
AP Photo/Ron Todt Arrests and harassment of people of color at chains have dominated the restaurant news cycle in recent weeks following the arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks. The universality of eating at certain chains helps trigger convictions that while everyone visits certain restaurants, your race continues to impact your experience. […]
Notched gazelle bones may be the signature of a Paleolithic culture
Enlarge (credit: Tejero et al. 2018) In caves and rock shelters around the Levant, archaeologists keep finding gazelle scapulae (shoulder blades) marked with a series of regular notches. Scientists still aren’t sure what kind of information the enigmatic marks once conveyed or how the bones themselves might have been used or displayed, but they may […]
