What’s Your Preferred Background Noise?
What is your preferred background noise? Are you more efficient for some types of tasks with a specific background noise on? White noise, brown noise,...
Author : Robert C. Danielson
How exorbitant concert ticket prices became so normal
Harry Styles performs on stage during The BRIT Awards 2023 in London, England. Styles’ concert tickets have been going for over $1,000. | Dave J....
The highlights and lowlights of the 2026 Winter Olympics
Alysa Liu’s gold medal win was one of the best moments of the 2026 Winter Olympics. | Matthew Stockman/Getty Images At every Olympic Games, there...
Mogging, -maxxing, and Clavicular, briefly explained
The popular online “looksmaxxing” trend promotes unproven and often dangerous techniques to boost sexual appeal; in this illustration, taking a hammer to your face. |...
The hottest new winter sport is about to get even hotter
A skier climbs the slops to the Todorka peak in the Pirin Mountains on February 14, 2026. | Nikolay Doychinov/AFP via Getty Images Over the...
The FCC (probably) didn’t censor Stephen Colbert
James Talarico and Stephen Colbert on the set of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. | Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty Images For the 12 of...
What Jesse Jackson taught Democrats
Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to a Democratic gathering at the Cheyenne Civic Center on April 20, 1989, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. | Mark Junge/Getty Images Rev....
The Trump threat looming over late-night TV, briefly explained
Stephen Colbert on the set of his late-night show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. | Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty Images This story appeared in The...
Is Grindr Dead?
What has the app become? | Derek Abella for Vox What is Grindr supposed to be? I’m not sure if this existential question is one...
Americans spend less of their income on food than almost ever. Why doesn’t it feel that way?
Grocery prices are a current measure of Engel’s Law. | Osaka Wayne Studios/Getty Images Everything about the American economy right now feels weird. The hiring...