A digital quiz will test your knowledge of the new world we live in today and tomorrow. Moss And Fogg will transport you from heatwave to the best places to see the fall colors, and The New Yorker goes deep on reverse logistics for all the stuff we return. Pronoun has a new single out, and her video is a throwback to dodgeball days.

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Pew Research put together a quiz about technology, and it is a good representation of topical info and the direction we are headed. Questions about EVs: If you need to know what an EV is, you must take the quiz. Some questions include Artificial Intelligence (AI) and a question on multi-factor authentication. We took the quiz and missed 1 out of 9; it was an age thing.

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After a week where our temperatures have been over 100 degrees, it's easy for us to look ahead to fall and remind ourselves what the colors of pre-winter look like. To help us with that, Moss And Fog compiled a list of the best places to see the fall foliage, not just the Northeastern States.

New England made the list from the States, and so did Ontario, Canada; everything else on the list was international. Bavaria made it on our bucket list from Japan to New Zealand.

When shopping on Amazon, I won’t buy anything that doesn’t say Free Returns. Amazon switched from an everything is a free return to most things are free returns a few years ago. Similar to a Netflix customer acquisition strategy, where Amazon wanted to get you to buy everything from them, one of the techniques you can use to get people to do that is to make returns easy. 

David Owen writes a detailed piece in The New Yorker about how this process is becoming a business in its own right. As online shopping grows, so do returns, and in a business that used to discard and write off returns, the new move is to set up new logistics and opportunities to resell and reuse returns. This is important for both profit margins and for sustainability. The public is beginning to question companies that produce too much stuff and how much of that stuff is hitting a landfill post-return.

The artist Pronoun released her first new song in the last 2 years. Check her catalog out here, and watch her new video below.

Bodeans.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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