There are days when the world feels like it’s gently wobbling off its axis and then there are days when a 6-foot, 17,000-pound meteor casually tears across the sky at 44,000 mph over Ohio like it’s late for a meeting. And no one told me. Apparently, according to […]
This week my spam folder has taken on the tone of a very disappointed guidance counselor. Every morning, nestled between offers for miracle collagen powder and a prince from somewhere needing my urgent banking assistance, I find an email with the subject line: “Failure Notice.” Just that. No […]
Apparently sharks had a bit of a moment in 2025. According to the annual International Shark Attack File from the Florida Museum of Natural History, deaths from unprovoked shark attacks rose 125% worldwide. Which is the kind of statistic that makes you pause mid–beach vacation and reconsider the […]
Every once in a while the news produces a story so magnificently strange that you have to pause and admire the human psyche in its natural habitat. This week’s specimen: Tommy Thompson. A 73-year-old deep-sea treasure hunter who discovered the wreck of the legendary SS Central America a […]
There’s a quote by James Baldwin that has been echoing in my head lately like a stubborn song lyric you can’t shake “I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.” It feels like the quote of the moment. Maybe the quote of the decade. […]
March, in theory, is a hopeful month. Spring is coming, they say.Birds are preparing motivational speeches. Somewhere a crocus is bravely sticking its little purple head out of the ground like a tiny optimist. But in reality? March is the month of whiplash. On Monday it’s 70 degrees […]
I saw a quote on LinkedIn the other day that stopped me mid-scroll. “I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.” Which is a polite, professional way of saying: Sir, the math is not mathing. And it struck me how profoundly true this feels […]
The other day I had a small, suspicious thought. What if some of us are a little bit addicted to sadness? Not the catastrophic kind.Not the kind that requires medical intervention and casseroles. I mean the specific, curated sadness many of us seem to carry around like a […]
Every morningthe birds begin their meetingbefore I do. They chirp with an enthusiasmthat feels slightly unnecessaryfor 6:07 a.m. Outside my windowthey are holding some sort of conferenceabout joy. I listen. But the strange thing isI knowthey are not singing to me. They are singing to a lifehappening somewhere […]
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope recently spotted something about 300 million light-years away that feels oddly familiar to modern humans: a galaxy that is mostly invisible, a little mysterious, and apparently made almost entirely of Dark Matter. In other words, a cosmic entity that is technically there, […]
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