- 2025’s best astronomy pics
Daily Edition • September 12, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Would you voluntarily share the diaries of your youth with millions of strangers? Most would likely answer with an easy “no,” but Betsy Lerner thinks differently. Lerner, 65, has been filling diaries since she was a girl, and a few years ago decided to share some of her old entries on TikTok. Based on the reaction she got from her first video, she’s glad she did: “So many people said they connected with my diaries — about depression, loneliness,…Read more
- No, really: Your life’s a movie
Daily Edition • October 15, 2024 SUPPORTED BY NASA’s Landsat program has been around for more than 50 years, providing the longest continuous space-based record of Earth’s land in existence. It tracks natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes, keeps an eye on food and water management, follows carbon storage, and so much more. Less essential is its ability to spell your name, but it is very fun. Click here to type in your name and see it spelled out in Landsat-captured imagery of...
- Welcome to the Poetry Pharmacy
Daily Edition • October 14, 2024 SUPPORTED BY Today is Indigenous Peoples Day, a celebration that coincides with the Columbus Day federal holiday. According to Randy’L Teton, a citizen of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe and U.S. Forest Service employee, the occasion is “a call to support the ongoing journey toward justice, equity, and healing for all Indigenous Peoples.” Read her reflection on the day, and consider celebrating by making a donation to the Warrior Women Project. Must Reads If your...
- Meet NYC’s viral “trash walker”
Sunday Edition • October 13, 2024 SUPPORTED BY Considering how essential sleep is to overall health, it feels just a tad unfair how frustratingly elusive a good night’s rest can be. So we perked right up when we learned about a simple mental exercise for falling asleep quickly that’s been making the rounds on social media. Kind of like counting sheep but with words, “cognitive shuffling” is designed to distract the mind from wandering thoughts, which may help you drift off. It doesn’t work...