Each week, we share the top five articles that caught our attention. Here are your must-reads, published here and abroad, for the week of July 9th 2018.
Why are we obsessed with being rich?
Lauren Greenfield has spent years photographing the world’s richest people. Now she’s made a documentary on society’s obsession with extreme wealth – and its cost to us all.
→ Read it on The Guardian
If alcohol had been invented today, it never would have been okayed
Welcome to the golden age of alcohol, featuring synthetic spirits that deliver the same effect, but without the hangover or health consequences. But are we truly ready to give up the one thing that has structured our social behaviour for centuries?
→ Read it on Usbek & Rica (In French)
Can meditation really make the world a better place?
Meditation is considered a remedy for many things, praised for its virtues for personal, as well as collective development. Even soldiers are trained in meditation as a means of managing stress. But does research into its efficacy meet scientific standards?
→ Read it on Aeon
Cruises are cool again
Everything about a cruise is meant to buff life’s unpleasant edges into sea glass. Once you’ve put aside your doubts and accepted the routine, cruises may just be the best vacation deal going.
→ Read it on The New York Times
Eating for peace
According to anthropologists and psychologists who have studied food, cuisines from international cultures can take us out of ourselves and help us better understand distinct people and cultures. The secret ingredient is empathy.
→ Read it on Nautilus
A centre for change
#Sponsored
Havas opens an artificial intelligence research centre in Montréal. Our Creative Director, Adriana Palanca, explains how this centre promises to reshape the customer experience.
→ Read it on our blog
In your earbuds: Bouffons
The king of kebab, Guilhem Malissen talks passionately about everything and anything–especially when it comes to food. Tune into Bouffons every Wednesday to explore a new culinary topic with two invited guests who dish up their views on what we eat.
→ Listen to it on iTunes (In French)
Who to follow:
Quebec-based graphic artist Alex Lévesque (a.k.a. Dessine Bandé) has given himself the challenge of creating a new mini-cartoon every day of the week. His sense of humour is dark and satirical, but his work is never boring!
Photo: Lauren Greenfield
