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Put yourself in the mind of a 20-year-old college sophomore who's just finished finals. You're ecstatic, probably exhausted, and still bouncing from all the finals-week caffeine. It's also the first summer post-pandemic, when everyone's finally able to leave the house and get up to whatever they want.

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. Even as the U.S. economy starts to trend upwards, the promise of Universal Basic Income (UBI) isn't being ignored. Cities across the country keep announcing new free cash programs for residents as recently as last week. This page, which we will update regularly, will help you keep track. UBI is an old […]

For accessibility-minded TikTok creators, gone are the days of the finicky text tool and third-party captioning apps. The beloved social media platform now does it all for you. Almost a month after the app's official announcement, more users (and accessibility advocates themselves) are getting the chance to use the new automatically-generated closed-captioning services, the latest of TikTok's in-app accessibility features that are (fortunately) pretty easy to use. The month-long... Click […]

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. On Wednesday, we marked another Equal Pay Day, the point in the year when women have finally made what men made in 2020. And that's just the average across all women — Black women will make what white men made in 2020 on Aug. 3, Indigenous women on Sept. 8, and Latina […]

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. If you've got impressive tech skills, medical knowledge, or even just some extra time on your hands to sit down and click a refresh button, it might be worth lending a virtual hand to a stranger and help them get vaccinated. You'll be joining groups of people who are taking on the […]

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. Dictionary.com announced its latest language updates as we reach the one year anniversary of our communal COVID-19 lockdown. In a year marked by new modes of communicating and advocating, the updates reflect our new reality with additions like "doomscrolling," "Zoom," and "BIPOC," (Black Indigenous and People of Color). The 2021 additions were […]

Finally, more inclusive potato family representation! But the change didn't come without a dollop of confusion and controversy.Beloved children's toy brand Mr. Potato Head is set to undergo a gender neutral rebranding this year, the Associated Press reported, in a move that recognizes same-sex parents and marks the importance of inclusivity when it come to gender identity. In Hasbro's official announcement of the rebrand, it explained it will drop the […]

President-elect Joe Biden announced his nomination of Dr. Rachel Levine for U.S. assistant secretary of health Tuesday morning. Levin would be the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate — which has just begun confirmation hearings for Biden's cabinet choices — according to the Biden-Harris transition team. As assistant secretary of health for the Department of Health and Human Services, Levine's office would oversee "key […]

Sesame Workshop, the educational nonprofit behind Sesame Street, announced two new residents set to join the Muppet family this year: Noor and Aziz, 6-year-old twins from the displaced Rohingya Muslim community living in the world's largest refugee camp. The twins are part of a Rohingya-language educational campaign and will be shown to families living in settlements around Bangladesh. The first Rohingya muppets were introduced as part of Sesame Street's Play […]