From Ashes to Mint: The Strange Evolution of Toothpaste Through Empires and Experiments
Let’s be honest. For most people, the twice-a-day ritual of brushing our teeth is a senseless addiction. A flick of the wrist, a burst of […]
Let’s be honest. For most people, the twice-a-day ritual of brushing our teeth is a senseless addiction. A flick of the wrist, a burst of […]
Your status within the grocery line, the fluorescent lights humming a stupid, frantic tune. Your smartphone buzzes—another email. The person at the back of you […]
We’ve all heard the tales. The Sheryl Sandbergs, the Indra Nooyis, the ladies who shattered the proverbial glass ceiling with a powerful crash that echoed […]
It hits around 4 PM. The workplace window, once a window to the world, has become a block of obsidian. The sun, a faint reminiscence […]
You wake up to the sound of an alarm, not birdsong. Your hand reaches for a cellphone earlier than it even unearths your associate’s. The […]
Let’s be actual. For anyone growing up with a smartphone in their hand, the idea of sitting through a 3-hour black-and-white movie may be about […]
Let’s be honest. We’ve all been there. You’re sitting across from your partner at the dinner table. The day turned long; the meals are good, […]
It starts quietly, nearly imperceptibly. A ping from your smartphone. A new email icon is flashing in the corner of your display screen. A mental […]
We have been conditioned to travel in straight lines. Our vacations are plotted on maps with bold, red arrows. Our walks are tracked by apps […]
We walk through a forest and see trees. We gaze across a prairie and see grass. We look at a coral reef and see a […]
I first saw a terror bird skull in a museum photo, and I honestly thought it was a mistake. The head looked like it belonged […]
Let’s be brutally honest for a second. Making friends as an adult is absolutely exhausting. You text someone to grab a coffee; they reply three […]
Every year or two, the same video makes the rounds online again. A lioness in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve — an animal that, by every […]
A sixty-two-second film sits in a storage room somewhere. Most people will never see it, let alone go looking for it. It was shot in […]
Nobody warned me about the silence. Not the silence itself — there isn’t any, really — but that particular moment just after sunset when the […]
Someone once told me that the saddest photograph ever taken is not of a war or a famine or a natural disaster. It is a […]