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 October 1, 2018.
The eternal life of instant noodles
Basic instant noodles have replaced cigarettes as the most traded item inside American prisons. Last year, across the globe, more than 100 billion servings of instant noodles were eaten.
→ Read it on BBC
A 200-year-old guide to colour
Centuries after naturalists used it to define the colors they saw in the natural world, Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours is back… but redesigned for the Internet age.
→ Read it on Fast Company
Coders who are programming their replacements
When workers automate their own duties, who should reap the benefits? Coders are now in a unique position to negotiate with their employers over the gains derived from automation.
→ Read it on The Atlantic
The existential void of the pop-up experience
When journalist Amanda Hess visited as many Instagrammable museums, factories and mansions as she could… the experience nearly broke her.
→ Read it on The New York Times
Collectors of obsolete supercomputers
Nearly 30 years after Silicon Graphics ruled the high-performance computing roost, its supercomputers have found a new home with a small community of enthusiasts, some of whom weren’t even alive during the company’s heyday.
→ Read it on Motherboard
Richter gets a fresh new look
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Havas Montréal and our design studio, La Maison W, are proud to unveil the new branding we developed for Richter, an accounting and consulting firm.
→ Read it on Grenier aux nouvelles (In French)
In your earbuds: Welcome to L.A.
Since the first boosters marketed Los Angeles as a “Paradise by the Sea”, people have been rolling into town with big dreams. In this series, David Weinberg explores a few of the many L.A.s that exist between the Pacific and the Mojave.
→ Listen to it on KCRW
Who to follow:
A true child of social media, New Zealand teen Liam Martin has built his Instagram fame by sharing low-budget versions of glam celebrity photos… featuring himself.
Photo: SAN-X
