Yesterday Kraft and Heinz merged to make the mega Kraft Heinz Company. Together the company’s sales will be upward of $28 billion. The deal is projected to close in the second half of 2015. The real question is, will they be selling ketchup flavored mac and cheese now? (CNN)
Uber recently announced that they would be working with UN Women to create 1 million jobs for women by 2020. Ten days following that announcment, UN Women made it very clear that their collaboration with Uber was nothing beyond Uber’s sponsorship of the “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality” event. Uber responded that the company will continue “their vision of accelerating economic opportunity for women globally” and seek advice from UN Women. (Fast Company)
Kristen Schaal and Jon Stewart can’t believe we will be driving flying cars on Mars before the economic gap between women and men is closed!! This clip is seriously funny. Watch it. (Huffington post)
Summer music festival lineups are starting to be announced. Governors Ball, Lollapalooza, and Outside lands, are all featuring some hip artists. Better start saving now.
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@Sir Francis Galton The 78 cents on the dollar statistic disappears if you account for career choice. The stat is a basic Simpson’s paradox fallacy: if the data is properly controlled, women can be said to make 98 cents on the dollar, which is within statistical error of a dollar. Why do we perpetuate this basic misunderstanding of science?