The Obama Presidential Center opening draws global stars while Trump's rival events struggled to fill their celebrity rosters.
A growing wave of countries are banning social media for children under 16 to protect young people online.
A history teacher's modern education criticism is sparking a debate about what's really driving our classrooms and lack of critical thinking.
Slow dopamine is the key to feeling genuinely satisfied again. Here's what the science says about fast vs. slow dopamine.
Every month, without ceremony or sympathy, roughly half the world’s population puts on pants, goes to work, sits through meetings, makes school lunches, and functions at something approaching normal capacity while their uterus contracts hard enough to make the whole situation feel deeply, personally offensive. Nobody gives them a medal. Nobody even really asks how...
Squirrels have always been the undisputed chaos agents of the urban outdoors. One minute they’re burying a nut in your potted plant, the next they’re hanging off a bird feeder with the confidence of someone who owns the place. Most of the time, watching them is a small, oddly satisfying part of daily life –...
Gen Z – broadly defined as people born between 1997 and 2012 – is the first generation to have grown up entirely in the digital age. Smartphones, streaming services, and social media have been constants since childhood. So the pivot toward slow, tactile, analog pursuits is not a nostalgic impulse (they have no memory of...
Finland has claimed its ninth consecutive title as the world’s happiest nation and now aims to share its formula for wellbeing. Through the “Chill Like a Finn” initiative, Visit Finland, the national tourism board, invites 6 pairs of travelers to enjoy a complimentary 7-day journey to Finnish Lakeland this June. Instead of a typical tourist...
A new optical illusion, shared by TikTok creator Mia Yilin, has gone viral across social media. According to a video posted by Yilin, this viral image claims to identify whether a person is a deep thinker or a natural problem-solver based on what visual they notice first. The image features a man’s side profile and...
Every generation thinks its style and habits will last forever. We always assume we have reached peak culture, but history proves us otherwise. Bell-bottoms felt timeless once. So did MySpace and frosted tips. Now, they live in old photos that we try not to remember. Today, we are oversaturated with trends that won’t last, even...
In the crazy world of social media virality, it is easy for stories to blur together, yet every so often, one stands out and makes people stop scrolling. At just 22 years old, Emily Cocea has done something most law students would never expect: she is earning more than $1 million a year through her...
The internet has always loved labels, especially ones that explain annoying behavior in a single word. That is why the phrase male Karen has taken off online. Gen Z users appear to have settled on a specific name to describe this stereotype. Some people laughed, while others felt uncomfortable. A few were openly irritated that...
