F*Hits

For blogging Brazil’s fashionable ascent. A rising middle class has brought luxury to Brazilian storefronts but not laptops. Alice Ferraz’s blog collective–featuring 26 style mavens’ takes on fashion–attracts more than 3.5 million uniques a month, besting traditional style bible Marie Claire Brazil.

Video

Impact

How going to the Moon really did change the world—back on Earth

This “virtual power plant” made of solar and batteries means Oakland can stop burning jet fuel

Inside the effort to map the world’s dying coral reefs from space

Creativity

Sports media is going direct to consumer—and Copa90 wants to be the Glossier of soccer

The original ‘Lion King’ had a racist hyena problem. The new film fixes that, with mixed results.

This fan-made, stop-motion ‘The Shining’ took 60 hours and 10,000 LEGOs to create

Co.Design

This fascinating graph shows how life in America has changed since 2003

The quest to bring urinal culture to women

Sorry Wall-E, this is now the world’s cutest robot

Work Life

How to manage email so that it doesn’t control you

Why team-building exercises are useless (and what you should do instead)

What companies should do with the office mansplainer