This Fourth of July, Taylor Swift hosted what looks like a pretty fun party. She also cemented her reputation (in my brain) as the nemesis of true female friendship.
If you are an introvert, you may sometimes feel as if the world is conspiring against you. In the workplace, you are correct, according to Susan Cain, author of the best-selling Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking.
Somewhere in an alternate universe, there exists the best possible version of me. Bizarro Sarah sends wedding gifts promptly and wakes up early to go running, three days a week. She keeps up her French, saves diligently for vacations, and reads emails as soon as they land in her inbox. She gets her bangs trimmed long before the sheepdog effect sets in.
Americans have made a lot of progress in the way they teach and talk about sex. Virginity is losing its sacred status: according to a 2014 Gallup poll of over 1,000 adults, 66% of Americans believe that premarital sex is morally acceptable. This ideological evolution is good news for young women in particular, who have historically born the brunt of the stigma surrounding sex out of wedlock.
Most people head into job interviews prepared to sell themselves. Entrepreneur Dave Kerpen says that’s their first mistake.
March Madness is meant to bring officemates and groups of friends together. But the excitement over the annual NCAA college basketball championship tournament in the US tends to exclude one very important demographic: people who spent their childhoods faking stomachaches to get out of gym class.
The most interesting man in the world has a most interesting retirement plan. Dos Equis released a video on March 10 showing its dashing spokesman, played by 77-year-old actor Jonathan Goldsmith, blasting off on a one-way trip to Mars.
The NBC comedy 30 Rock has a lot of good advice for viewers: Live every week like it’s Shark Week. Always change into a tuxedo after six. But perhaps the most important lesson to be gleaned from Tina Fey’s now-retired series comes from its reimagining of Leap Day. In the world of 30 Rock, Feb. 29 is a joyful, devil-may-care national holiday chockfull of traditions—the most important of which is seizing the extra day that comes every four years to break out of your comfort zone.
Growing up, I loved celebrating Christmas at my grandparents’ house in rural Tennessee. A row of nutcrackers stood at attention along the mantle of the fireplace, and felt mice ran up the grandfather clock in the living room. My grandmother waited to decorate the tree until my parents and I got in from Ohio, and together we’d nestle her hand-sewn partridge and elf ornaments into its branches, then head to the kitchen to make fudge and Santa-shaped sugar cookies.
World leaders will spend much of next week’s climate change summit in Paris wrangling over the terms of a deal to fight global warming. But if the tiny nation of Uruguay is any indication, switching to a low-carbon lifestyle isn’t as difficult as it might seem.
Volcanic lightning and billows of fire and ash lit up the sky over the east coast of Sicily on Thursday (Dec. 3) as Italy’s Mount Etna erupted for the first time in two years.
As insomniacs and impulse shoppers around the world can attest, home television shopping networks can make people covet never-before-contemplated purchases. So it’s worth asking whether a new channel dedicated to showcasing firearms could tempt Americans to buy more guns.
Perhaps Canada should put a new kind of leaf on its national flag.
If there is anything remotely positive that came out of the worst terrorist attack in France’s modern day history, it is Europe’s newfound willingness to come together in the face of a jihadist threat. Western Europe has come together in both words of condolence and in mobilizing militaries during a time of budget-crunching. Its response has been nothing short of inspiring—and it puts the United States to shame.
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, Americans are gearing up for their favorite traditions: Turkey Trots, marshmallow-topped sweet potato casseroles, annual viewings of A Muppet Christmas Carol–and, of course, dodging questions about the future.
Can we save the planet by expanding our palates? That’s the mouth-watering premise put forward by journalist Simran Sethi in her new book Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love.
This post has been updated.
The title of “guru” was once reserved for religious teachers and spiritual guides. But today, the designation is deployed—without irony—by a plethora of corporate and creative professionals.
