TikTok Is Getting Gen Z To Quit Vaping
Social media influencer challenges have a complicated reputation, but a new one spreading across TikTok and Instagram is genuinely worth paying attention to. Throughout the past year, a wave of popular content creators with audiences numbering in the hundreds of millions began posting videos about quitting vaping, all in partnership with Truth Initiative, the nation’s […]
Science Just Confirmed That Art Is Not A Luxury It Is A Health Necessity
At a dance class in Boulder, Colorado, most of the participants have Parkinson’s disease. Some stay seated throughout. Others follow along using only their upper body or their hands. Occasionally someone starts singing. The class is part of a growing movement that has now attracted the attention of researchers, hospitals and public health officials: the […]
Jaden Smith Runs A Vegan Food Truck Where Homeless People Eat For Free
For his 21st birthday, Jaden Smith did not throw a party. He launched a restaurant. The son of Will Smith had been thinking about food insecurity on Skid Row in Los Angeles, where tens of thousands of people live without reliable access to meals, and he decided that a birthday was the right moment to […]
This Company Sold And Every Employee Got A Life-Changing Check
On a snowy afternoon in Calgary, around 600 workers at a company called CoolIT Systems gathered under a tent for what they were told would be an important meeting. What happened inside left several of them in tears. Investment firm KKR had purchased CoolIT less than three years earlier and given every worker, from engineers […]
A Pub Landlord Has Been Quietly Saving Lives Every Three Months For 25 Years
When Stephen Cotterill walked into a blood donation center on his 43rd birthday, he was not celebrating in any conventional way. He was there to give his 100th pint of blood. The pub landlord from Sutton-in-Craven in North Yorkshire reached the milestone having first signed up at age 18, when he was a college student […]
LA28 Olympic Tickets Go On Sale For Locals
April 2nd is the day that millions of sports fans across Southern California have been waiting for. LA28 Olympic tickets are officially on sale right now for the very first time, and this opening window is reserved exclusively for locals who pre-registered for the chance to buy. Fans with eligible zip codes in Los Angeles, […]
The Teddy Bear Doctor Who Has Been Saving Beloved Toys
There is a home where the walls are lined with button eyes, spare fur and tiny stuffed animal parts, and where a seamstress named Ruth Hasman has been quietly repairing beloved childhood toys for nearly two decades. She calls her operation the Bearland Teddy and Stuffy Hospital, and the patients she receives arrive from all […]
United Airlines Reaches A Historic Payout Deal
Since 2020, more than 30,000 United Airlines flight attendants have been working without a pay raise, some of them picketing airports, voting down earlier deals and returning to the negotiating table to push for something that felt fair after years of sacrifice during the pandemic and the airline’s recovery. That wait is now close to […]
American Cigarette Smoking Just Hit A Record Low
For the first time in recorded history, fewer than 10 percent of American adults smoke cigarettes. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 9.9 percent of adults smoked in 2024, crossing a threshold that public health researchers describe as genuinely significant. In their field, events affecting fewer than 10 […]
The Nail Polish That Turns Your Fingernails Into A Touchscreen Stylus
Anyone who has grown out their nails knows the awkward routine required to use a touchscreen: angling the finger sideways, tapping with the very edge of the skin, doing everything possible to avoid the nail. Researchers at Centenary College of Louisiana are working on a solution so simple it is surprising nobody cracked it sooner: […]