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This week, the American Psychological Association released its annual Stress in America survey, asking thousands of people variations on one simple question: What stresses you out? The poll, like its recent iterations, found that Americans are stressed the heck out.…
Every Halloween, parents around the country warn their children about something truly scary: poison, pins, and needles in Halloween candy. It turns out, though, that these concerns are largely unfounded. Researchers who have looked into scares about Halloween candy have…
On Tuesday, Uber rolled out Ride Pass, a subscription plan in which customers pay $14.99 monthly (or $24.99 in Los Angeles) to avoid surge pricing. The plan, which Uber is marketing as “an affordable option people can use for their…
The sexiest 38-second clip the world has ever seen is called “Lightness.” In it, a mysterious rectangle pushes to get free of a piece of blue silk. The rectangle opens like a mouth, and the blue silk sort of dances…
There are people alive who do not enjoy Queen—who find the band too indulgent or too audacious—but I believe in my heart that those people are simply adrift. The critical conversations about Queen tend to linger on Freddie Mercury, Queen’s…
In the Daqiqi Balkhi School in Kabul, a teacher asks several rows of young boys what they have seen in the clouds. Next, he tells them to draw a beautiful landscape. He also frequently asks them to sketch parrots in…
