Grade schoolers have a much easier time deciding their future careers than first-year college students or even college seniors. There’s no societal judgment if you want to work on a garbage truck or join the circus. You can also dream a lot bigger–like aspiring to be an astronaut or the president. By the time you’re …
The United States is a relatively new country, without the same long-standing cultural history as other places in the world. Our is the country of corn dogs, Hollywood, and strip malls. Despite our brief history, we’ve invented basketball and football–not soccer, beloved by the entire rest of the world and largely ignored here. We love …
Remember when the world lost its collective mind because Gwenyth Paltrow named her baby Apple? And then they made a big to-do about her “conscious uncoupling” from Chris Martin? She confirmed her status as the ultimate weird-rich girl back then. Now, Apple is pretty tame compared to some celebrity baby monikers. Elon Musk and Grimes …
In the Social Dilemma, the people who developed the algorithms for social media and streaming services insist that we’re all powerless against their influence. The algorithm is too powerful; they explain. We can’t help but succumb to its control. They say they’ve created a world-ending technology. But here’s the thing, that’s what the Penguin says …
Houseplants are having an actual moment on the internet. It started last year, but the momentum is still going strong across social media. Plant accounts offer viral content about rare and luxury plants, plant care, and how to sneak yet another houseplant into your home without your partner noticing. Internet trends aside, houseplants are beneficial …
There’s something addictive about scrolling through the app store. Developers promise us the world, from better productivity and money management to immersive game experiences and more connectivity. Anyone who has fallen for the Gardenscapes or Homescapes ads knows that apps can promise just about anything, but whether they deliver is another matter entirely. While everyone’s …
Something dark happened to food science in the 90s. The once respectable career combining chemistry and culinary arts transformed into a bizarro world science lair, creating increasingly strange foods. Packaged foods and kids’ snacks suffered more than others—creations no one wanted or asked for overburdened those sections of the grocery store. Weirdest Packaged Foods of …
No disrespect for those of you who are too cool for the Gregorian calendar, but January is an exciting time. It’s hard not to get swept up in the possibilities of an empty calendar with its eternal – if naïve – hope that this will be the year that things turn around for us. This …
Thumbnail Credit: Lunde Studio The Daniel Craig franchise disregarded a lot of the genre staples of the Bond empire. Since 2006’s Casino Royale, grit and wit replaced the overt corniness of the films. After the high-gloss, low-plot Pierce Brosnan iteration of Bond, it was something of a sea-change that reinvigorated a dying empire. But let …
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Why is everyone talking about “intentions” this year? Is it because we’ve realized that our fates in this world are fickle and easily derailed by pandemic and depression (economic and personal)? So while we may intend to travel more and lose weight, nine months of home confinement may well be in our future. The only …