You’re Not Hallucinating: Amazon Is Livestreaming Julia Child

Death Is All Around Us

Our Broken Environment Kills a Quarter of Us

The recent event in Flint, Mich., is a devastating reminder of an even more depressing reality: Our surroundings are literally killing us. About 23 percent of the total deaths in 2012—that’s 12.6 million—were attributable to environmental risks like polluted air, dirty water, hazardous workplaces, and dangerous roads, according to a new report by the World Health Organization.

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Uber Could Give Us a Lesson in Productivity

Taxis only make money when they have a passenger in the backseat, and the ride-sharing company’s app is astonishingly efficient at getting people to do just that. Typical taxi drivers in Los Angeles have a passenger in the car for just 40.7 percent of the miles they drive. By contrast, Uber drivers have a passenger in the car for a whopping 64.2 percent of their miles. If only the company was having the same kind of success with its motorcycle taxi service.

Why Is Amazon Livestreaming Julia Child and Bob Ross?

Starting today, you can watch a four-day marathon of Julia Child’s cooking show on Twitch, the live-streaming site owned by Amazon. Go ahead, we’ll wait while you squeal with delight. You back? Great. The promotion is part of a strategy to challenge YouTube and expand Twitch’s reach beyond its core audience of video game fans.

Get Your Tickets for the Bloomberg Businessweek Design Conference

Speakers include SFMOMA Director Neal Benezra, National Design Award winner Stephen Burks, James Corner (James Corner Field Operations), Snøhetta founding partner Craig Dykers, award-winning architect Daniel Libeskind, Artichoke Artistic Director Helen Marriage, Hamilton costume designer Paul Tazewell, and many more. Full details here. Buy your ticket today.

Soros, Alarmed by Trump, Pours Money Into 2016 Race

The liberal New York financier, whose effort to unseat President George W. Bush in 2004 shattered political spending records, is returning to big-ticket giving after an 11-year hiatus. Soros has spent or committed more than $13 million to support Hillary Clinton and other Democrats this election cycle, already more than his total disclosed spending in the previous two presidential elections combined.

Why Is It So Hard to Change How We Manage Ourselves?

Companies for decades have craved an alternative to top-down management. Traditional hierarchy is increasingly seen as an outdated vestige from the industrial revolution and a recipe for failure at organizations that operate within its framework. Yet moving beyond the corporate ladder has proved challenging. Why can’t we move on?

‘Bitchin’ Betty’

The World’s Top Fighter Pilots Fear This Woman’s Voice

Make a mistake in the F/A-18 Super Hornet and the jet issues an audible correction: “Roll right! Roll right!” or “Pull up! Pull up!” U.S. Air Force pilots refer to this voice as “Bitchin' Betty,” while among Britain's Royal Air Force she is known as “Nagging Nora.” The real woman who personifies the aircraft, 60-year-old Leslie Shook, recently retired after 35 years as an employee of Boeing.