- 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…Read more
- Historic ship could become world’s largest artificial reef
Daily Edition • October 3, 2024 SUPPORTED BY Halloween is exactly four weeks away, which means it’s almost time to watch the first of the three iconic Peanuts holiday specials, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Thankfully, the episode will be available to stream for free on Apple TV+ on Oct. 19 and 20. Learn when you can watch the other two, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas, and cue up the Vince Guaraldi in the meantime. Must Reads TIME unveiled its list of 100...
- Fat Bear Week is back
Daily Edition • October 2, 2024 SUPPORTED BY It’s one of our (and your) favorite stories of the year: The trend report is in for the predicted popular baby names of 2025. Nameberry released its forecast last week, laying out a few different buckets that next year’s monikers will fall into, including “global Americana” (Xochitl, Ewan, Eleni), “country rebrand” (Mabel, Polly, Huck), and “landscape names” (Acre, Cloud, Ridge). Read the full report. Must Reads The “comet of the century” is...
- Meet the good Samaritans of Hurricane Helene
Daily Edition • October 1, 2024 SUPPORTED BY Renowned folklorist Henry Glassie famously called history “a map of the past, drawn from a particular point of view, to be useful to the modern traveler.” And our latest Cause of the Month — the Warrior Women Project — is in pursuit of making that map more complete. The nonprofit recovers and shares the stories of the women who fought for Indigenous self-determination and cultural survival during the Red Power Movement, which took place from the...