That warm tingle in the pit of your stomach where the knot of stress was previously?
Yeah, it’s Saturday. Enjoy today’s song: Hot Chip’s “
Flutes (Sasha remix) ”
QUOTE OF THE WEEK “I’ve been sort of a student of the game for 12 years. I hope my wife doesn’t hear that.” -- Newly appointed Pinterest marketing chief
David Rubin, who was responsible for Axe fragrance’s years of sexist advertising. Now he is the voice of a social network completely dominated by women.
Sexism Runs Deep
Corporate America’s sexism manifests itself in many forms, but this may be one of the worst: Even companies that make tampons are run by men. Those old commercials, in which blue liquid was poured over sanitary napkins? You can thank men for that. In a feature that has made its rounds on feminist blogs this week, HuffPost’s
Jillian Berman explores this bizarre truth. She concludes that, even as companies hire more women, the effort amounts to: “Progress, but hardly parity.”
CHATTER FODDER Here’s a lawsuit made for headlines, by headphones:
Bose sues Beats. The music speaker giant claims the headphone maker, which Apple recently acquired for $3 billion, ripped off its sound-canceling technology.
The tide of gentrification in New York City is sweeping even further into Brooklyn. A longish piece on
Gothamist this week wondered if East New York, a rough Brooklyn neighborhood immortalized in more than a few
Nas songs, could be the next hipster haven, after young creatives get
priced out of Bushwick.
GlaxoSmithKline has a problem its medicines just can’t remedy. Once again, the pharmaceutical giant has been accused of corruption in a foreign country. This time, it’s Syria of all places. E-mails from a whistleblower,
leaked to Reuters, revealed the company was paying bribes to do business.
BuzzFeed, the news and entertainment site that may be worth $1 billion, is embroiled in its first major plagiarism scandal after
two Internet sleuths caught viral politics editor Benny Johnson ripping off text from Yahoo! Answers, Wikipedia and a U.S. News and World Report staffer. Ben Smith, BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief, said he’s
“reviewing” Johnson’s work.
The New Republic, a magazine whose masthead is filled with Ivy League grads, ran a story blasting the Ivy League College Industrial Complex. Even more ironic? The rival magazine that pointed it out,
Newsweek, called TNR a “zombie” for its Harvard-dominated masthead. And Newsweek knows a thing or two about being called a
zombie.
A U.S. meat supplier is at the center of a ballooning scandal in China and Japan, where it’s accused of providing expired chicken and beef products to fast food companies. Now, a report in the
International Business Times is alleging worker and food safety violations at the company’s processing plant in Chicago.
Tesla is spending $5 billion on a “
gigafactory ” that is expected to produce more lithium ion packs in 2020 than were created in the entire world last year. But now one
analyst is questioning the wisdom of risking so much on one technology.
LISTENING BOOTH A collection of audio stories 
What happens with Ukraine, Russia and the west after the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash? [
The New Yorker]
Why the Japanese are having so few babies [
The Economist]
Joe Biden’s White Teeth, in one podcast [
Slate’s Political Gabfest]
How to tell if your 401(k) stinks [
Bloomberg View]
Who’s better off: A Roman emperor, or you? [
Slate’s The Gist]
FAA politics, the ongoing investigation into MH17 & what’s next for drones [
Politico]
Should clothing ever be option? [
Slate's The Gist]
Alexander C. Kaufman compiles and writes Weekend Pause. Get inside his head
here. Want to drop him in a line? Email
alexander.kaufman@huffingtonpost.com | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 |
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