Tag: Advertising

  • Nation & World

    An app aimed at transparency

    Super PAC App, the brainchild of recent Harvard Kennedy School graduate Jennifer Hollett and her MIT classmate, gives voters information on the big-money donors behind this season’s campaign ads in real time.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Doubting Thomas nation

    Why aren’t you listening? Scientists discuss the difficulty of transferring scientific consensus to the public.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Where art and advertising collide

    A new exhibition at Harvard Business School explores the intersection of fine photography with product marketing in the 1930s.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Playing on our instincts

    Assistant clinical professor of psychology Deirdre Barrett says that many of today’s ills come from intentional overstimulation of natural human impulses, giving people hard-to-resist appetites for everything from fighting to sex to unhealthy foods.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Web Ads Hidden Under Cloak of Invisibility

    Kraft Foods, Greyhound Lines and Capital One Financial have bought some strange ads on the Internet lately. What’s so strange about them is that they’re invisible.

    1 minute