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Mid-Year Resolutions: Tips for Revisiting (and Revamping) Those New Year’s Goals

Health / 4 min. read

It’s been six months since many of us passionately vowed to revamp our lives with positive new habits for 2024: eating more vegetables, saving more money, staying in better touch with loved ones.   We won’t pry as to whether you’re among the vast majority whose resolutions faltered and faded away or the impressive few who […]

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Move Over, Dystopias and Utopias: Protopias Offer a Hopeful, Realistic Vision of the Future

Culture / 3 min. read

From 1984 to The Handmaid’s Tale, literature and media are rife with dystopias, imagined states that often act as warnings against perceived political or social dangers in the real world. Though perhaps appearing less frequently, their opposite, utopias, also grace our books and screens. It’s the third member of the hypothetical-future club that doesn’t seem

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Stress Is Down and Positive Experiences Are Up, Global Emotions Report Finds

Health / 3 min. read

Every year for the better part of the past two decades, polling organization Gallup has been taking the temperature of the room, so to speak, with its Global Emotions Report. The results are in from its latest survey, and the news is positive, if a bit surprising: The world is feeling better.  The findings were

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Kansas Man Mows Overgrown Lawns for Free in Heartwarming (and Satisfying) Viral Videos

Humanity / 3 min. read

On a hot summer day, mowing the lawn is the last thing anyone wants to do — even when temps are cooler, it isn’t exactly an exciting activity. But for people with physical limitations, financial constraints, or mental health struggles, yard work can go beyond being just a tiresome chore and instead become a virtual impossibility. 

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Ancient Roman Laundry Facility Uncovered Near Vatican City: “The Meeting Place of the People”

Culture / 2 min. read

An ancient Roman laundry facility, or fullonica, was recently uncovered near Vatican City in Italy. Archaeologists found the 1,700-year-old ruins during excavations of the Piazza Pia underpass, which is being modernized to prepare for more pedestrian activity.  The findings offer a look at the day-to-day lives of Romans living almost two millennia ago. A series

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Luxury Meets Sustainability: How 2 Friends Are Shaking Up the Fashion Industry With Four Objects

Lifestyle / 4 min. read

Best friends Ku and Mae have a lot in common: After meeting over 20 years ago as teens during a summer program at the Parsons School of Design, they both spent time traveling the globe; they’re both mothers; and they both have a passion for driving forward sustainable, ethical practices in the fashion industry.

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This Fourth-Generation Cobbler Is Inspiring Young Craftspeople Through Social Media

Culture / 5 min. read

Although fast fashion remains popular, a growing number of people are choosing to live and dress more sustainably. Jim McFarland, known professionally as “America’s Cobbler,” is here to help. “When you think about it, we’re the oldest recycling industry probably in the world,” McFarland, of Lakeland, Florida, told Fox 13 Tampa Bay. “They’ve probably been

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How Anya Culling Went From Novice Runner to One of the UK’s Fastest Female Marathoners in Just 3 Years

Sports / 3 min. read

These days, Anya Culling is considered one of the U.K.’s fastest female marathon runners — she’s sponsored by athletic apparel giant Lululemon and competed as an elite in this year’s London Marathon. But rewind to 2019, and running was merely a hobby Culling had picked up to benefit her mental health.  Following a spate of significant

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“A Second Pair of Eyes”: Scientists Create Glowing Dye That Illuminates Prostate Cancer Cells During Surgery

Health / 3 min. read

Researchers have developed a fluorescent dye that sticks to prostate cancer cells, enabling surgeons to remove malignant tissue they otherwise would not be able to see.  In a preliminary study involving 23 men undergoing prostatectomies, the dye successfully attached to proteins on cancer cells, highlighting them for the surgical team with the help of a

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