In 1999 I sat in a Vancouver café with a group of anti-capitalist activists. They’d just returned from protesting the WTO in Seattle to find a new, far stranger foe in town – David Icke.
Social-distancing mandates and quarantines during a global pandemic have made us more dependent on social media than ever before.
Whilst residing in Paris in the sixth century, Queen Clotild, the widow of the Merovingian ruler Clovis, became the unwilling subject of the inveterate plotting of her sons, Lothar and Childebert, who were jealous of her guardianship of her grandsons, the children of their brother, Chlodomer.
This is what happened when I tried creating the inverse of a traditional to-do list. 7 minute ReadThe fog of the pandemic has made it difficult to get stuff done. After a certain point, our usual modes of time management no longer feel efficient.
Take a look at any given corporation’s registration docs, and there’s a good shot you’ll see the address 1209 North Orange Street.
For generations, the standard way to learn how to ride a bicycle was with training wheels or a tricycle.
Well hello! A version of this article also appeared in the It’s Not Just You newsletter. Sign up here to receive a new edition every Sunday for free. When my youngest child was just a little creature, she’d settle into my mother’s lap and pat the velvety folds of skin under mom’s chin.
Everyone is disliked by someone. Don’t let it slow you down.
The pandemic has convinced us we have to be useful at all times. Here's what that mentality looks like, and how to deal with it.Think about your work ethic during the pandemic.
You can never go wrong listening to this guy.
This article was published online on April 8, 2021. When I was a kid, my mother loved to take me out for some light trespassing. This was the 1990s, during which the Atlanta metropolitan area’s population grew nearly 40 percent, and housing construction boomed to match.
Three years ago, I had a baby. I won’t go into the details, but suffice it to say that she is extremely cute, and I enjoy being her mother. A few months after her birth, I was scrolling on my phone, and I came across news of a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Falling head over heels in love is one thing, but if it becomes all-consuming you may be in ‘limerence’.
If you’ve spent enough of your waking hours in the gaping abyss of Twitter, there’s a chance you’ve come across at least one photo from Gerald Stratford, a 72-year-old British retiree who spends his days growing “big veg” (that’s “big vegetables,” for the uninformed).
Christopher was an ancient Egyptian prisoner. Stephanie's dating the man who had her murdered. They and many others swear by the controversial benefits of past-life regression.
I love her and it’s a secret. I love her so much it kills me, and you bet I’d sooner die than tell her.
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This piece of pseudo-profanity is what’s known as a taboo deformation—a word we say when we don’t want to say the word.
I’m on a hike with my husband along the C&O Canal in Washington, D.C., when he leaps off the path, slides down an incline, and begins digging through the dark, wet leaves near the water’s edge. As oncoming hikers approach he surfaces with a rusty can, dirt clinging to its sides.