In his May 16 commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania, Hamilton playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda weaved together personal anecdotes to make a powerful statement about the immigrant experience.
Long airport lines are always hellish. But one line at Chicago Midway yesterday (May 12) was so long that it took YouTube user Sean H. two and a half minutes to walk its entire length. His video of the journey has now gone viral, with more than 1 million views on YouTube and hundreds of comments on Reddit.
You wanted to dip your toe into the online dating pool. So you downloaded Tinder, Hinge, Coffee Meets Bagel, and chose your best-looking Facebook photos, and started happily swiping left and right. But then, perhaps, you met someone, or your dates were all duds. The fun was over. You deleted the apps from your phone, hoping never to hear from another graphic designer in Brooklyn or developer in Oakland again.
Crafting the perfect slight is an art form. If your well of funny and unexpected jabs has run dry, you could take inspiration from other languages. A Reddit post posed the question: What’s an insult in a non-English language that sounds silly or strange when translated to English? Laughs abounded in the results.
One year after launching a task force to look into abusive work conditions in nail salons throughout the state, New York governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered the payment of $2 million to hundreds of workers who have been denied overtime and paid less than minimum wage.
Last week, Walgreens quietly published an explainer on medical marijuana on its health and wellness blog. The post, titled “What is Medical Marijuana?”, plainly explains the benefits (and potential side-effects) of treating various disorders with cannabis, and encourages customers to “talk with your doctor” if they have more questions.
A reasonable customer would not wait for a scoop of ice cream to melt before eating it.
Despite the country-first rhetoric driving political campaigns in the US and around the world, nationalistic feelings seem to be on the decline globally. That’s according to a new poll done for the BBC World Service, which has found that people are becoming more likely to identify as “global citizens,” especially in countries with emerging economies.
If Tinder wasn’t awkward enough, now you can meet potential suitors in groups and bring along your friends. Tinder is testing a new feature, Tinder Social, that lets you and a group of friends meet other groups of people to go out with.
The latest in internet-connected devices that no one really needs: pregnancy tests. First Response, the makers of popular lines of at-home pregnancy tests, has launched Pregnancy PRO, which the company is marketing as the world’s first and only Bluetooth-enabled pregnancy test.
You might not be able to snag Hamilton tickets, but you can catch the play’s Pulitzer Prize-winning creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, on last night’s episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight. The playwright joined comedian and host John Oliver to ask the US congress to do something about Puerto Rico’s crippling $70 billion debt crisis.
Shark Tank, the reality TV show in which contestants pitch Mark Cuban and other high-profile “shark” investors, has the same problem as the rest of the startup world: not enough diversity. For the fourth year in a row, the show is holding casting calls to find more minority entrepreneurs.
American pop music legend Prince has been found dead in his home in Minneapolis. He was 57. His death was confirmed by the Associated Press, citing his publicist. Details about the cause have not been released; the singer was reportedly hospitalized last week after a bout with the flu.
In celebration of 4/20, a pseudo-holiday among marijuana lovers, Snapchat launched a lens that lets users transform themselves into reggae icon Bob Marley—replete with blackface. The response has not been positive.
Start your engines—or don’t, because cycling just became a heck of a lot easier for those living in Mexico City.
Silicon Valley is feeling the bern. Data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) shows that Google employees have donated over $200,000 to Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, making Google the number one employer for Bernie Sanders donors.
In his latest episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver asks some very pointed questions about lead.
In the days of yore, medical students could take their seats in operating theaters—which really were laid out like theaters—and watch surgeons perform delicate procedures from high above. But on April 14, for the first time ever, anyone with an internet connection was able to tune in to a surgery being broadcast live in virtual reality.
Tomorrow, April 14, marks two years since terror group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 girls from a school in Chibok, Nigeria.
There are plenty of reasons why tax season in the US is stressful—but for anyone who has recently been hacked, filing your taxes can be a nightmare.
Big news—in celebration of Equal Pay Day, executives from Microsoft and Facebook announced that both companies have succeeded in closing the gender pay gap. Microsoft’s head of HR Kathleen Hogan called the development “another step forward,” and Facebook’s Lori Matloff Goler said she was “proud to share” the announcement in a Facebook post yesterday. Fortune first reported the news.
The only objective in Rust, a popular online video game, is to survive in the wild. But now, some players will have no other choice than to survive as female characters. Plenty of fans, voicing their discontent on Reddit and video game forums, are not happy about it.
The words “Silicon Valley”—whether you’re referencing the industry at large or the TV show—often call to mind images of guys in hoodies. But a new portrait series by a startup veteran serves as an excellent reminder that plenty of people work in tech who don’t fit the category of the Silicon Valley straight white male. Hundreds of them, actually.
The comedian John Oliver’s disdain for the Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is no secret. Last night (April 3), the host of Last Week Tonight offered yet another reason to worry about Trump’s advancement to the front of the Republican pack, honing in on the candidate’s answer to a question on nuclear policy during a CNN town hall: ”At some point, we have to say, you know what, we’re better off if Japan protects itself against this maniac in North Korea, we’re better off if South Korea is going to start to protect itself,” said Trump. Asked if he felt the same way about Saudi Arabia having nuclear weapons, Trump answered, “Absolutely.”
