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How do you find a good restaurant these days?
What are you looking for when you're picking a place to eat? And how do you find it? Michelin stars or TikTok?
You've heard them referenced on The Bear and maybe even looked out for them when deciding…
Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Coldplaygate & our fear of being watched
Whether it's the Coldplay kiss cam or screenshots of dating profiles, it feels like any one of our private lives could inadvertently go public any minute now.
A Coldplay concert kiss cam video went vi…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Is Christianity cool again?
For the first time, multiple Christian musicians are charting on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time — and staying there for weeks. Has the mainstream found God?
Brittany talks with University of M…
Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago
In search of a safe place to cry...
What comes to mind when you think of third spaces? A place to be in community that's not a bar or a club? Try a diner...
For New York Times writer and author, Erik Piepenburg, diners were and still ar…
Published on 1 month ago
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Published on 1 month ago
The thin line of good vs. bad plastic surgery
What's the difference between "good" work and "bad" work? And how do we talk about the rise in plastic surgery without dehumanizing people for their choices?
Rates of plastic surgery are increasing, …
Published on 1 month ago
It's hard to read. Here's why.
Data from Gallup and the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that Americans are reading fewer books and spending less time reading than ever. There's been reporting on college kids struggling to finish l…
Published on 1 month ago
The price you pay for being smart.
Anti-intellectualism is on the rise. And by "anti-intellectualism" we mean the backlash to scholars in fields like the humanities.
According to two intellectuals, Dr. Ally Louks and Jason Stanley, the…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Gen Z is afraid of sex. And for good reason.
Gen Z is having less sex than previous generations. But why? Well, let's be real. There are a lot of very legitimate reasons why young people are afraid of sex right now, many having to do with recen…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Zohran Mamdani & the politics of "good" vs. "bad" Muslims
Before, during, and after Zohran Mamdani became the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, Republicans and Democrats were both leaning into decades old Islamophobic tropes to delegitimize his…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago