Alex Lauer

Alex Lauer is the features editor at InsideHook. Since joining the company in 2016, he’s covered a wide range of topics, including cars, the environment, books and business. His reporting broke stories on the rise of Bookshop (the anti-Amazon online bookseller), the fall of Best Made Company (and sale to Duluth Trading) and the false promises of a supposedly “environmentally-friendly” NFT initiative. His hands-on methods — driving in a Sherp (of Kanye West fame) in northern Minnesota and idling in the electric Ford Mustang Mach-E for 12 hours in the middle of winter — offer a reliable and unique perspective on popular issues. Previously, he wrote for City Pages in the Twin Cities after graduating from the University of Minnesota. After starting at IH in New York City, he now lives in Minneapolis, MN. Follow him on Instagram and X: @alexlauer.

All Articles From Alex Lauer

The Growhouse Is the Greenest Way to Stave Off Those Winter Blues

You might miss the sun, but at least your house plants won’t

The Most WTF?!-Inducing Human Achievements of 2016

Starting with that lunatic who skydived into a trapeze net

An Automated Restaurant That Requires Zero Human Interaction Just Opened

In case you were wondering where your jobs are going ...

Amazon Alexa’s Newest Iteration Is a TRON-esque Desklamp

Guess they weren't kidding about the future being bright

Bummer: Guys Who Manscape Are More Likely to Get STIs

And here you've been calling yourself ‘Mr. Clean’

The Official ‘Hamilton’ Mixtape Features Nas, Chance and Jimmy Fallon

Yet another reason to hop aboard the hit musical's hype train

A Year-Round Ice Hotel Just Opened for People Who Like Shivering

They supply the reindeer hides, you supply the long johns

The First Year of Nude-Less Playboy, in Review

Turns out less is more, and we’re not talking clothing

A Meat Tax Could Save Half a Million Lives, the Planet

Don't shoot the vegan! He might be onto something.

Bill Gates’s Latest Venture? Poop Perfume.

It's part of his plan to solve the global sanitation crisis

A Book Full of Beautiful Women You Can Actually Keep on Your Coffee Table

Attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places