Poet and Civil Rights Activist Maya Angelou to Be First Black Woman on the U.S. Quarter
The United States Mint has announced that Maya Angelou will be the first Black woman to be featured on the U.S. quarter. The quarter will be...
Roku’s Live TV Zone Brings Cable’s Mindless Scroll to Cord-Cutting
Roku today launched a Live TV Zone as a launchpad for all of your live and in-progress streaming content. If you use Roku’s Live TV Channel...
Just Getting Into Wearing Makeup? An Expert Explains Where to Start
If you’re makeup-curious, chances are that you’re feeling slightly overwhelmed with your options. With dozens of types of makeup to choose from and thousands of options...
These Harry Styles Lyrics Make Great Instagram Captions for All Your Couple Pics
We think Harry Styles is like a modern-day Paul McCartney. Why? He bears his soul in all of his lyrics. And while most of his songs seem to...
Check Out the Gorgeous First 3 Minutes of Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle
When Mamoru Hosoda’s newest anime film Belle screened at the Cannes Film Festival, it received a standing ovation afterward—not for one minute, not for two, but...
United Joins Wave of Canceled Flights After 3,000 Workers Test Positive for Covid-19
Continued flight cancellations and increasing numbers of staff testing positive for Covid-19 are making an already dire situation worse for the U.S. airline industry. Now, following...
Astronomers Spot an Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football
A team of astronomers studying distant exoplanets found one that seems to be shaped like a football—or a rugby ball, depending on your frame of reference—rather...
Keeping the X-Men’s Greatest Secret Requires One Hell of a PR Campaign
Marvel’s mutantkind doesn’t die right now. Well, mutants do—they just come back. But only Krakoans know of the great secret their island nation has given their...
Teaching Conspiracy Theories & Media Literacy to 6th Graders
My favorite unit to teach the last two years to my middle school students has been on “Fruit Loop Conspiracy Theories.” Rather than study and discuss...
Mozilla Is Going to Track Facebook Tracking You
Aside from the plethora of scummy privacy practices Facebook uses to track your every move on its myriad platforms, the company’s also come up with plenty...
