Many people would be familiar with the idea of Native American-owned casinos—but what about movie studios? Last year, the Tesque Pueblo Tribe of New Mexico was looking to move out of their old casino building into a bigger space—and while…
A Chinese company has shipped crates containing tens of thousands of respirator masks to Italy in her time of need. And it has done so with the artistic flair of a true Italian romantic. Consumer technology giant Xiaomi mailed the…
As a particularly mystical part of Great Britain that is home to a rich collection of folkloric fables (they even have a dragon on their flag), Wales is exactly the place you’d want to go if you were looking to…
Happy 90th Birthday to Stephen Sondheim, the composer and lyricist who won an Academy Award, 8 Tonys (more than any other composer), 8 Grammys, and a Pulitzer Prize, for his contributions to musical theater. His best-known works include West Side…
Anyone who pays attention to mainstream media, especially these days, has experienced “scaremongering”—but what about “caremongering”? Even as I write this article my spelling software suggests that I change caremongering into scaremongering—because there has never been such a word. Well…
Heeding health officials’ orders to #StayInYourHouse, you may be, at this point, only telling inside jokes. (Hah!) But with his 51 million fans on Twitter, Jimmy Fallon was able to pull in responses from all over the globe for his…
12 innovators have joined food and beverage leaders to tackle one the largest sources of unrecyclable waste: the takeaway coffee cup. Each year, 250 billion to-go cups that serve coffee and tea from places like Starbucks are produced to satisfy…
Know Your Zone: This is your planting zone if you live in the US It’s perhaps a bizarre and somewhat arrogant habit we humans have developed; surrounding our houses with a plant species that isn’t native, doesn’t produce food, and…
40 years ago today, Pink Floyd’s single, Another Brick in the Wall, hit No.1 on Billboard, beginning an 11-week domination at the top of the charts. From their rock opera album The Wall, written by bassist Roger Waters, it is…
Episode #3 of our quarantine-inspired good news podcast: Geri and Anthony talk about the unique ways people are getting toilet paper; the Starbucks-evidence of progress in China; a breakthrough in faster testing for coronavirus; quality quarantine tips for things to…
