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Whatever you intended to do when you opened a new tab, nothing stops you in your tracks quite like short-form video. The format, popularized by Tik Tok, "degrades our capacity to retain intentions," according to research from the Ludwig Maximilian ...

Julie K. Brown spent years investigating Jeffrey Epstein for the Miami Herald. Her 2018 "Perversion of Justice" series identified 80 victims, exposed the sweetheart plea deal that let Epstein walk in 2008, and generated enough pressure that federal ...

Lark Street Music in Teaneck, New Jersey, specializes in vintage guitars. It even has a wonderful vintage website. Buzzy Levine, proprietor of the store since 1981, reported the unexpected return of two recently-stolen mandolins, along with a ...

A Reddit user going by enigma_x asked Claude AI to "build me an app that would delight me." It generated a digital message-in-a-bottle service where strangers send anonymous notes across a pixelated ocean. You write something, cast it into the ...

The Trump family's foray into smartphones keeps slipping further into the future. Trump Mobile, the wireless venture run by Donald Jr. and Eric Trump, has postponed delivery of its gold-colored T1 smartphone yet again, this time blaming the ...

A self-described "hippie who barely knows how to use a microwave" used Claude AI to build a fully functional music visualizer from scratch in a single day. According to a viral post on the ClaudeAI subreddit, the circumstances were perfect: wife ...

It turns out that sloths do fart after all. Zoologist and founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society, Lucy Cooke, once gave a delightful TED talk about sloths. She defended the notably unhurried creatures against the disparaging words of a Spanish ...

Everyone has that one friend who spends more time in tanning salons than they do sucking the marrow out of their work week lunch hours. Their skin's about the same color as the leather seats in a 1978 Chrysler Cordoba. -- Read the rest The post ...

When you turn a memorial into a gross monument, don't be surprised when artists walk away. What was once America's premier cultural shrine, the Kennedy Center, has become ground zero for an arts rebellion after its trustees voted to slap Trump's name ...

I knew Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac, for years. I interviewed him multiple times for Irish Music Magazine. We shared the stage with The Chieftains on opening night of inaugural Celtic Colours Festival in the late 1990s. I sat in with him at my ...