- Today’s Pick: Do you know this Disney lore?
Editors’ Picks • September 17, 2025 There’s a lot of well-known lore around Disneyland, but one story may have flown under your radar. According to Walt Disney himself, the vision for his first amusement park came to him while he was watching his two daughters play at the Griffith Park merry-go-round in Los Angeles (you can watch him share the anecdote in our article below). Built in 1926, the carousel was shut down in 2022 due to disrepair and a probate dispute, but now the city has…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...