Will Angus live or die?
In 2024, an art collective embarked on a new piece called Our Cow Angus. Here's what they did: Bought a young cow. Named it Angus. Presold Angus as 1,200 hamburgers…
Advice from long ago
I was teaching a storytelling workshop last month when a woman approached me and asked if I remembered her. I did not and immediately felt bad. She told me not…
A decade later, I still wonder about this fake kidnapping victim
More than ten years ago, a 12-year-old boy in France faked his own kidnapping to avoid a dentist appointment, appearing in a town 100 miles from his own after claiming to have…
Utah is banning books in an extra-stupid way
The state of Utah has made it easy for anyone to ban a book in public schools across the state. A law passed in 2024 allowed the statewide ban of…
Slapsies and Knuckles
I spent New Year's Eve teaching my niece how to play Slapsies, the classic children's hand game where one person tries to slap the other's hands before they can pull…
Toby Morton is doing great work
As you may have heard, the Kennedy Center has been teetering since Donald Trump slapped his name on the building and took over. Can you imagine how needy you must…
Just stop using social media.
As I rang in 2026, I read a lot of New Year's resolution lists — looking for inspiration for my own — and one kind of item appeared again and…
Post office begone
Denmark’s state-run postal service, PostNord, will deliver its last ever letter on Tuesday, as the digital age brings its 400-year run to an end. This makes Denmark the first country…
Goodbye, MTV
MTV officially shut down its remaining 24-hour music-focused channels on December 31, 2025, ending an era of music video broadcasting They ended their final broadcast with "Video Killed the Radio…
Lakes and stages
When I was a kid, Mrs. Allen taught me a clever mnemonic to remember the names of the Great Lakes: HOMES: Huron Ontario Michigan Eerie Superior I like this one…
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