Tethered to the turbulent carousel ride of the holiday season, many adults find themselves in the kitchen far more often than usual, and it’s making me sweat. Perhaps it’s chilly outside, but the heat of the oven makes my brows moist, my wallet ache, and my heart craves a simpler existence. Why does the Christmas …
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New Christmas Movies Will Never Replace the Classics Because Nostalgia is Too Powerful
Dusting off a well-loved copy of your favorite Christmas movie is one of the holiday season’s greatest pleasures. With all the best Christmas memories preserved on DVD’s or streaming online, it’s become easy for holiday lovers to recreate their favorite seasonal moments: Just pop on your favorite holiday film! But why don’t people branch out …
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WNBA Rookie Defeats Incompetent Basketball Bro on the Court, But That Won’t Stop Ignorant ‘Fans’ Disparaging Female Athletes
For as long as the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has existed, there have been insecure amateur male basketball players trying to compete against them in hypothetical matchups. They claim that they could easily beat the best professional women’s basketball players in a one-on-one matchup. The most undeserved confidence goes to the guys who put …
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The Age of Internet Innocence is Not Lost, It’s Hiding on Forums
Brimming with darkness and lore, the internet has gone from cute cat videos and messaging apps to gorey accident videos and rants of hatred. Yet, it wasn’t always that way. Originally, it was created to foster connections and build a global network for humanity, romanticizing mankind’s motives. Despite this heartfelt vision and its capability of …
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Why a Clip of a Woman Mixing a Redbull at Work is Infinitely More Watchable Than Anything AI Can Generate
Even if you hate it, you have to admit that AI is impressive. Large language models can generate astounding videos at the push of a button, with increasing convincingness. But as hard as AI-generated videos try to seize our attention, nothing is as captivating as humanity. Case in point: A video of a woman known …
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Holiday Modernity has Lost its Wholesomeness, but Old-School Christmas Traditions Can Save Us
It’s no secret that for adults the holiday season is a flurry of rushed workdays, hurried nights, and even busier weekends. Somehow, a season that once made humanity stand still and reflect has snowballed into an all-consuming spectacle of red, green, gold, and glitter. Falling victim to the holiday hoopla, society has given in to …
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The ‘Discover Playlist’ is the Only Part of Your Streaming Service That is Actually Helpful for the Artist
Before the Internet, music lovers discovered new music by listening to the radio, spending hours at record stores, borrowing their friends’ CDs, or scouring local libraries for free downloadable MP3s. Because of this bottlenecked distribution, the music industry was completely gatekept for decades, with labels buying up radio stations, studios, event spaces, and retail booths …
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We Don’t Need Any More Self-Help Internet
It is second nature for most of us to turn to the internet when we want advice. We Google it, hunt down just the right obscure Reddit thread, or ask ChatGPT a question with a response scraped from Reddit. We are all conditioned to look for answers in ways that are increasingly fast, and, when …
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Streaming Platforms are Egregiously Ignoring the Unspoken Rules and Etiquette of TV Advertising’s Past
Cutting to a boisterous, tone-deaf commercial mid-scene, mid-game, or mid-sentence would have sent a 90s television enthusiast into a fit of rage and confusion. While TV ads have always been a bit disruptive, at least in the past, advertisers had a sense of decorum, protecting the sanctity of the show-watching experience with a backbone of …
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Recent Horror-Romances like ‘Frankenstein’ Suggest That Women Yearn for a Monster Gentleman, Not a Gentleman Who’s a Monster
Tortured, predatory, and often violent, male protagonists are overly romanticized in gothic stories. As an inevitable byproduct of the genre, the love interests and leading men in many gothic tales are seductive because they are dark, and utterly tragic. Yet, audiences still watch in awe, hearing the faint voice of hope in the back of …
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