This weekend I began spring cleaning, not because I am virtuous or organized or suddenly one of those people who labels their spices. No. I started cleaning because my brain was full. Overfull. Like a Manhattan closet. Like my inbox. Like my emotional support tote bag that contains […]
Scientists recently thawed bacteria trapped in ice for something like thirteen thousand years inside Scărișoara Cave in Romania, which is already the kind of sentence that makes me feel like humanity is poking at something that should have stayed in a locked narrative box labeled Do Not Disturb. […]
New York City is powered by three things (1) caffeine, (2) rent anxiety, and (3) people who wake up each morning and think, “You know what? I bet I can pull this off.” Enter one man, one night’s stay, and the absolutely majestic idea that if you play […]
New York City is many things at 2:30 a.m. Romantic if you’re in love. Philosophical if you’re walking home alone. Regret-adjacent if you’ve just eaten pizza you didn’t need. But every once in a while, it turns cinematic. A few nights ago, a man apparently launched himself into […]
What is your favorite animal? Sharks. Those glamorous, fin-flipping divas of the deep. The rulers of the ocean. The creatures who make every beachgoer reconsider their life choices at the mere sight of a dorsal fin. And what’s their secret weapon? Teeth. Lots of teeth. Teeth that grow […]
Do you have a favorite place you have visited? Where is it? People love to ask about travel. Where have you been? What’s your favorite city? What country changed you? This is usually followed by a mental highlight reel of airports, shoes kicked off, and that one time […]
Somewhere between my third slice of pie and my third dog stepping on my stomach, I read the wildest thing. Scientists found tryptophan, the same sleepy amino acid we blame for our Thanksgiving couch comas, on Bennu. That is a small asteroid that swings by Earth every six […]
This morning, as I was briskly walking to work with my phone in one hand, existential dread in the other, I looked down and saw it: a single die. Just one. Sitting there on the sidewalk like it had rolled out of fate’s pocket. It was showing the […]
There was a time when getting mail was exciting. Maybe it was a handwritten letter, a glossy magazine, or if you were lucky a package from a friend. Now? The mail has become a bit of a roulette wheel, especially if you’re an online shopping enthusiast like me. […]
So some alarmist study went and ranked states on their chances of surviving a zombie apocalypse and surprise, surprise, New York didn’t snag gold. The Empire State limped in at fifth, which apparently proves that even our legion of gritty, resilient New Yorkers wouldn’t stop the undead from […]
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