What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Misinformation About the Olympics
If you’ve been following sports on social media over the last week or so, I’m sure you’ve seen photos and videos of Canadian athlete Tyler […]
Continue reading »Let Everything Be Better
If you’ve been following sports on social media over the last week or so, I’m sure you’ve seen photos and videos of Canadian athlete Tyler […]
Continue reading »The Paris Olympics are in the middle part, during which athletics reigned supreme. There is no purer, simpler expression of sport than this: we see […]
Continue reading »This week we look at how young people view two long-standing American traditions that occur every four years: the presidential election and the Summer Olympics. […]
Continue reading »I would watch the Olympics all day, every day, all year if I could, but the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris can’t go on forever. […]
Continue reading »The 2024 Paris Olympics concluded its first week with the women’s gymnastics all-around competition, an event that is always one of the most popular events […]
Continue reading »Big news on day five of the Olympics: The Seine has been declared safe for swimming. In the world of table tennis, athletes from North […]
Continue reading »Day four of the Paris Olympics included a bronze medal for the U.S. women’s rugby sevens team, a silver medal for the internet’s new darling, […]
Continue reading »Does U.S. Senator and Vice Presidential Candidate J.D. Vance consider the image at the top of this article to be pornographic? It depends on whether […]
Continue reading »Hello, dear Olympians! The Paris Games are in full swing, with thousands of athletes from around the world competing in 32 sports (29 of which […]
Continue reading »Young people don’t usually vote in large numbers, and I understand that: voting is boring and only inspires politicians anyway. But Kamala Harris’ entry into […]
Continue reading »Fame works differently than it used to. Very few people are household names, but there are plenty of YouTube creators, Instagram influencers and TikTokers who […]
Continue reading »On May 28, 2002, Paramount Pictures announced that it had optioned Avril Lavigne’s song “Sk8er Boi” for a feature film. This news story, along with […]
Continue reading »A few weeks ago, British teenager Jay Slater went missing in Spain’s Costa del Sol region, sparking international interest in the case and a flood […]
Continue reading »Welcome to the first annual Memey Awards, where the memes of the summer compete for the coveted title of “Meme of the Summer.” I went […]
Continue reading »I’ll be first in line to see Fly to the Moon when it opens on July 12th. Based on the trailer , the film tells […]
Continue reading »This week I’ll start with a review of Brawl Stars . I know the game has been out for a long time, but if you’re […]
Continue reading »Almost everyone is wrong about sunscreen. On the one hand, few people online question the safety and effectiveness of sunscreen: people like Primal Physique, a […]
Continue reading »It’s summer and the empty hours need to be filled, so young people are snapping bananas, creating imaginary shows on Netflix and forming very strong […]
Continue reading »If you’re anything like me, you woke up this morning to a calendar pop-up telling you that Flag Day is tomorrow, June 14th. You probably […]
Continue reading »If you are looking for Strands hints and answers for Wednesday June 12, 2024, read on as I share some hints and tips and finally […]
Continue reading »Back in April, I looked into rumors in Donald Trump’s fraud trial that the ex-president farted a lot in court . Because I’m fair and […]
Continue reading »This week we’re talking about generation gap! Gen Z and millennials are fighting over Eminem (sort of), a YouTuber has been elected to the European […]
Continue reading »On April 1 , the World Health Organization was informed of the first case of avian influenza (H5N1) transmission from a mammal to humans: a […]
Continue reading »Young people are everywhere this week. On the other hand, many children corrupt their brains. Others succumb to age-old internet schemes to “follow the train.” […]
Continue reading »I used to think conspiracy theories were fun. It was interesting/funny that there were people who believed that we faked the moon landing or that […]
Continue reading »Teenagers used to be considered the lifeblood of the film industry, but judging by the dismal box office performance over Memorial Day weekend, they don’t […]
Continue reading »Secret codes are all around us, making it easy to quickly communicate information to people who are looking for it. CB Radio codes , for […]
Continue reading »This week, People on X, right-wing radio programs, and Disney fan blogs came together to form Voltron of Terror around one issue: Disney canceled beloved […]
Continue reading »Summer is approaching, and young people seem to be turning their attention away from big topics like “would you rather be in the woods with […]
Continue reading »Social network TikTok’s misinformation policies are pretty robust, at least on paper . It specifically bans content containing “medical misinformation about vaccines or abortion” and […]
Continue reading »The rap war between Kendrick Lamar and Drake appears to be over. Winner by unanimous decision: Kendrick Lamar. But this beef is so culturally pervasive […]
Continue reading »Decades after going off the air, classic PBS children’s shows like Reading Rainbow and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood continue to hold a place in the hearts […]
Continue reading »I don’t like writing about Donald Trump and I definitely don’t want to write about his damn diapers, but one of the most common (probable) […]
Continue reading »I believe in cooperation and win-win solutions, but conflict is also a part of life, so this week I’m looking at conflict in four forms: […]
Continue reading »I still listen to the radio at my desk like an absolute freak. Yes, I know streaming apps exist – I also use Spotify every […]
Continue reading »Ever since the Humane AI badge was announced in 2023, people interested in technology and early adopters have been extremely passionate about handheld/wearable AI assistants. […]
Continue reading »This week in youth culture everyone is wondering who you’d rather be trapped in the woods with – a man or a bear. This question […]
Continue reading »I’ve never been good at choosing thoughtful gifts. I’m not the worst at giving gifts, but I am inconsistent. Sometimes I make three and sometimes […]
Continue reading »It’s been a few years since Lifehacker took a look at Gen Z slang —long enough that Gen Alpha has had time to develop and […]
Continue reading »For the first time in American history, a former president is accused of a felony, and disinformation, rumors and fake news have been pouring in […]
Continue reading »