Maisha Joefield thought she was getting by pretty well as a young single mother in Brooklyn, splurging on her daughter, Deja, even though money was tight. When Deja was a baby, she bought her Luvs instead of generic diapers when… Read More ›
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How can I trust TomTom?
I’ve been getting warnings about TomTom going off support for a while now, and encouraging me to get my free 3 year subscription to TomTom GO. I’ve tested both on the same drive and I much prefer the old TomTom’s… Read More ›
Mail Rail
Before the Mail Rail, there was that popular Victorian device, a pneumatic tube. The London Pneumatic Dispatch Company opened a postal railway under Euston Station in 1863 that could carry 35 bags of mail one-third of a mile in a… Read More ›
The cognitive differences between men and women
At the time, this was not a universally popular idea. The neuroscience community had largely considered any observed sex-associated differences in cognition and behavior in humans to be due to the effects of cultural influences. Animal researchers, for their part,… Read More ›
The Girl Who Lost Her Glasses
She walked back through her apartment. The walls were featureless, painted in neutral colours. The bright wallpaper she’d been so delighted with wasn’t overlaid any more; the Wall of GIFs that made her laugh most mornings was gone. The floating… Read More ›
The most emotional of objects
A few months back I asked my son why he did not wear his watch anymore and the answer surprised me. He said that it brought him bad luck and that things got better when he stopped wearing it. Crazy… Read More ›
How to Sell a Billion-Dollar Myth
Some of these articles are written with a dash of knowing humor, because our French Girl obsession has become something of a joke. (Last year, The Cut skewered its ubiquity in a post titled “97 Things You Can Do Like… Read More ›
Your phone is a dæmon
The podcast above made me think a little. In the film The Golden Compass, the characters have dæmons that are animals who are always with them. They share pain, emotions and everything else and must always be together and protect each… Read More ›
#ThisIsWhatAnxietyFeelsLike
This past winter, Sarah Fader, a 37-year-old social media consultant in Brooklyn who has generalized anxiety disorder, texted a friend in Oregon about an impending visit, and when a quick response failed to materialize, she posted on Twitter to her… Read More ›
I need Alexa in my car
In the last year’s statistics showed that technology is taking lives as teens and millennials are using their mobile devices while driving. According to Pew Research, the average American teen sends 60 texts in a day, which means lots of… Read More ›
