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It is that time of year again: People are dusting off their holiday decorations in order to make their homes and public spaces festive. It is also the time when certain stories and songs are being repeated. Television holiday shows such as “A Charlie Brown Christmas” are almost iconic, with audiences watching them year after […]

Grandparents do not have a reputation for vivacious sexuality. But our perception of grandma and grandpa as largely sexless is unfounded, according to a recent study of sexual habits across age groups. Earlier studies showed that sex lives become steadily less active in old age. But a group of researchers led by Robert Krueger, psychology […]

For America’s white nationalists, there is only one nation—and one leader—worth emulating. And it has nothing to do with lederhosen or Wagner. Richard Spencer, the current face (and haircut) of US’s alt-right, believes Russia is the “sole white power in the world.” David Duke, meanwhile, believes Russia holds the “key to white survival.” And as […]Read More

Rumor has it president-elect Donald Trump is scraping a bit at the bottom of the barrel for entertainers for his January inauguration. His national anthem singer isn’t Beyoncé or Aretha Franklin, like it was for Barack Obama, but 16-year-old America’s Got Talent contestant Jackie Evancho. (“Who?” the US’s non-game-show-watching population asked in confusion.) The inaugural […]Read More

After a pretty mixed 2016, Apple might be shaping up for a big 2017. According to rumor blog AppleInsider, the Chinese publication cnBeta is reporting that corporate documents leaked to the Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo suggest Apple plans to introduce three distinct models of the iPhone. The documents allegedly come from somewhere inside Apple’s […]

Disney is bringing TV to Snapchat. The media conglomerate, which owns TV networks including ABC, ESPN, Disney Channel, and Freeform, announced a deal yesterday to produce several original series for the millennial-centric media app. The first will be a spin-off of the reality romance The Bachelor. Disney has not said whether the other shows, due […]

Where was Donald Trump’s father born? Did he graduate from Fordham University? And if not, can it still be considered his alma mater? Is there such a thing as “Trump ideology”? And what photo best represents him? These are some of the questions quibbled over by Wikipedia contributors in the 200 edits made to Donald […]

Yunha Kim built the meditation app Simple Habit after experiencing the grinding pressure of building and selling her first startup Locket (a smartphone lock-screen app) in 2015. “I was so stressed at my previous startup that I started meditating five to eight times a day…and became a power user of some of the [meditation] apps […]

“Christmas is coming, but I’m not happy,” says Charlie Brown, blinking. “I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel. I like getting presents and sending Christmas cards and decorating trees and all that, but I’m still not happy.” “I always end up feeling depressed.” In the US, it’s time for the Peanuts Christmas special, […]Read More

China’s largest online marketplace, which is owned and operated by e-commerce giant Alibaba, has landed on a list of “notorious markets” where the US government says piracy and counterfeiting are rampant. The decision by the Office of the United States Trade Representative to include Alibaba’s massive consumer-to-consumer market, Taobao, on its annual list embarrasses Alibaba […]Read More

US president-elect Donald Trump pledged to get America’s economy growing by 4% a year. Legalizing unauthorized immigrants would take him a long way toward that goal. Undocumented workers generate 3% of US GDP, or $5 trillion over 10 years, according to a new analysis from two economists at Queens College in New York. If the […]

The Hollywood trade magazines all reported yesterday that Denis Villeneuve, the director of Arrival and next year’s Blade Runner sequel, is in talks to take on perhaps the most daunting challenge in science fiction: adapting Dune to film. Frank Herbert’s cult 1965 novel, considered one of the greatest sci-fi works of all time, tells the […]