Who is Barry Schwartz? Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. RustyBrick sells custom web software including advanced e-commerce, custom content management systems, social networking sites, CRM applications, custom web-based
A mixed-media painting attributed to Pablo Picasso has been sold after spending 50 years in a closet in a house in Maine. John McInnis Auctioneers, based in Massachusetts, confirmed that the painting entitled “Le Tricorne” sold on Saturday, the Boston Globe reported. The 16 x 16 inch
A prominent statue of Theodore Roosevelt at the entrance of The American Museum of Natural History will be removed after years of criticism that it symbolizes colonial subjugation and racial discrimination. The New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously to relocate the statue, which depicts
If your labor is free, you devalue yourself. There’s a better route to career success for young people. Sarah Green Carmichael is an editor with Bloomberg Opinion. She was previously managing editor of ideas and commentary at Barron’s, and an executive editor at Harvard Business Review, where she hosted the
Three years after former President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from a landmark nuclear agreement with Iran, Tehran’s government is closer to having the material needed for a nuclear weapon than if the deal had remained in place. Iranians have enriched more uranium to higher levels
Ben & Jerry’s made a bold new flavor announcement in May 2019: CBD ice cream was coming
A genetic analysis of a melon found in Sudan may point to the wild fruit that gave rise to one of summertime’s sweetest treats. About 4,300 years ago, someone drew a melon on the wall of a tomb in Egypt. It’s big, fat, green and generously striped: Everything
When it came to the time-consuming operation of identifying ceramic fragments, researchers discovered that a deep-learning model was just as accurate as four human specialists and significantly more efficient. The arduous task of categorizing pieces of pottery into subtypes is an important part of an archaeologist's
He can see objects thanks to light-activated proteins implanted in eye nerve cells and special eyewear. A blind man has gained some vision thanks to a novel sort of gene therapy that rewires nerve cells in the eye.The 58-year-old guy suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, a hereditary
Targeting large pickup trucks and SUVs, a New York bill proposes a safety rating system that would rank vehicles on the dangers they pose to pedestrians and cyclists. A bill in the New York State senate would establish a statewide pedestrian and cyclist vehicle safety rating system — the first of its
