This story originally appeared in Kids TodayVox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. I had been listening to Bust or Trust for almost a year before I realized it was supposed to be educational. The podcast, my older kid’s favorite, examines mysterious phenomena like alien abductions, haunted houses, and spontaneous […]
Here are the 15 Gen Alpha slang terms teachers say they hear most in classrooms, in order from most often to least often: Note: Most of these words and phrases weren’t created by Gen Alpha but come from AAVE (African American Vernacular English).
One neat new system-level feature unique to the Alpha is Demo Mode. Leave the Alpha untouched for two minutes, and it will start running one of the installed games’ “attract modes” from the actual arcade machines back in the day—those captivating bursts of gameplay that would lure players over, tempting them to part with their […]
Alpha Male has won. What happens now? Comedian Brent Terhune has for years satirized the angry, working-class white man who rails against libtards and expresses unyielding devotion to Donald Trump. His monologues resound with right-wing rants and epitomize toxic masculinity in a character he calls Alpha Male. But the aggrieved American man now rides on […]
