As edible send-offs go, it’s a good one. Staffers at recently-shuttered Al Jazeera America marked the channel’s final days with a mock homepage iced on a cake.
When asked to make a split-second decision about how to divvy up cash between themselves and a stranger, female subjects in a new study were significantly more altruistic in their decisions than their male counterparts were.
Kids with empathetic parents have well-documented advantages: less depression, less aggression, more empathy themselves. Parents also report better self-esteem when they make the effort to understand their children’s feelings.
Forget the complaints that internet dating has spawned a generation of flaky daters.
Acting can mess with your head. With every audition or booking an artist needs to be empathetic, to Go There, to blur the line between herself and an entirely fictional character. Throw in the constant rejection and scrutiny that comes with even a successful acting career and you’ve got a recipe for emotional imbalance.
Renato Bialetti, the Italian businessman who turned an aluminum coffee pot into a classic global design, died last week at the age of 93. In accordance with his and his family’s wishes, his ashes were interred in an urn shaped like a large version of a Moka pot, the stovetop coffee maker he introduced to the world.
Fed up with the limits of the medium and the number of trolls He hath created, God is quitting Twitter.
It was the cold, slushy week in Manhattan after late January’s blizzard and Chloe was dolefully eyeing the darkened studio where she awaited her call time. She wore a rose-colored cashmere sweater, a bridesmaid gift from a New York society wedding weeks earlier.
The US Food and Drug Administration recommends that pregnant women eat two or three servings of fish per week, thanks to the animal’s high concentrations of protein, vitamins, and omega-3 fatty acids. Previous studies of women in Europe have found that moderate fish consumption leads to lower risk of pre-term birth and higher birth weights for babies.
Amidst daily images of American families who can’t drink their own tap water and migrants suffering through the hellish limbo of a Calais winter, decent people find themselves asking: How about Kanye West? Is he doing ok? Does he have everything he needs?
Engineers have finally staunched a leaking gas well in southern California’s Aliso Canyon. Since the leak was discovered four months ago, the well has bled 96,000 metric tons of methane, the equivalent of running an extra 505,000 cars on the road for a year.
Anaheim, California
Chicago artists have recreated Vincent Van Gogh’s famous bedroom in Arles, France and put it up for rent on Airbnb. For $10 per night, you can sleep in a cozy wood-framed bedroom and imagine that you too are a mentally fragile genius with a troubled relationship to Paul Gauguin.
The drawn-out exhalation we know as a sigh doesn’t just telegraph emotion. It’s also a vital reflex that keeps us from suffocating.
A UK businessman is the latest entrepreneur to vend an unusual luxury product: air bottled in a bucolic setting and exported to pollution-choked cities in China.
Costa Mesa, California
A good friend is hard to find. Enter Hey! VINA, a new app that matches women looking for female friends with like-minded locals.
It’s one of the puzzling truths of wrongful conviction cases: Where was the evidence proving the wrongfully named suspect’s innocence? If he swears he wasn’t at the scene, surely there’s an alibi confirming where he was?
Conflicts in a relationship are inevitable, and if handled poorly (by withdrawing emotionally, blaming your partner, or dredging up that thing from that time with your mother) they can damage it.
It’s official. Paint drying is a suitable image for viewers aged 4 and over.
Disney’s early princess movies offer heroines that are strikingly similar: soft-spoken, ethereally beautiful, and willing to endure hardship and humiliation without a peep of complaint.
Corporate boards, the US Congress, and global gatherings like the just-wrapped World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, are all built on a simple theory of problem solving: Get enough smart and powerful people in a room and they’ll figure it out.
In 2014, Amalia Ulman began posting photos to her Instagram account chronicling a luxe, stereotypically feminine life in Los Angeles.
Police officers in the US have killed 48 people since the new year began three weeks ago, according to the Guardian. A new app aims to keep those numbers personal by pinging phones with a sobering notification: the name, and nothing more, of the most recent person killed by cops.
