Startups Weekly: What’s up with YC? Plus, mobility layoffs and Airbnb’s grand plans
Where to begin… Netflix darling Marie Kondo is hitting up Sand Hill Road in search of $40 million to fund an ecommerce platform, Y Combinator is...
The Best Dutch Ovens for Every Situation
Ari N/Shutterstock Dutch ovens are a versatile addition to your kitchen arsenal that can handle everything from stews to roasts to even bread. We’ve looked at...
Toddler’s reaction to successfully stacking cups was the best thing on the internet this week
This is One Good Thing, a weekly column where we tell you about one of the few nice things that happened this week. There are grand...
All your favorite TV comedies end this year. Now what?
2019 is turning into some sort of comedy killer. We’re losing some iconic shows this year. If, like me, you’re not ready to mourn the loss...
Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ will haunt you, and not just in the ways you’d expect
When the credits rolled on Us, I realized I needed a minute. It wasn’t that I didn’t like the film – quite the opposite. It was...
Will cockroaches really inherit the Earth?
Big cockroaches live beneath Price Hall at Virginia Tech University. The stately, gray, five-story building, built of stone over a century ago, houses the school’s entomology...
How to Convert Your Existing Amazon Echo to Kid’s Edition
Josh Hendrickson Amazon offers a $70 Echo Dot Kid’s Edition with integrated parental controls. But you can convert any Amazon Echo into a “Kid’s Edition” model...
Giveaway: The Shattered Realms series by Cinda Williams Chima
This giveaway is sponsored by Deathcaster by Cinda Williams Chima From New York Times bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima comes THE SHATTERED REALMS, a breathtaking fantasy...
Writing Together: 7 Books That Come From Collaboration
Lots of artists agree that making art—painting, writing, playing the tambourine—can be a lonely endeavor. Writing takes a lot of time alone thinking, writing, editing, and...
The Father-Son Relationship in The Remains of The Day
Let’s talk about the father-son relationship in the 1989 Booker Award-winning The Remains of The Day by Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro. Let’s not talk about why it took...
