In 1942, newly moved out of her family’s Helsinki apartment and living on her own, the Finnish artist Tove Jansson painted a self-portrait. She gave herself a cool confidence: steely gaze, striped brown coat, a lynx stole draped around her neck. “I look like a cat in my yellow fur,” she wrote to a friend. […]
SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers from the “Love Is Blind” Season 7 reunion, now streaming on Netflix. Nearly one year after the Season 7 “Love Is Blind” cast fell in love behind a wall, the group reunited for the reunion special, which filmed this month and dropped on Oct. 30. Starting with the positive, […]
RENO, Nev. — One morning last month, Cari-Ann Burgess did something completely unremarkable: She made a quick stop at a coffee shop on her way to work. For Burgess, the top election official in a northern Nevada county, such outings could be precarious. As she waited for a hot tea and breakfast sandwich, an older […]
The vagus nerve sprawls from the brain through the body, innervating our organs and managing life support and emotion. Sally Caulwell for Quanta Magazine The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. It is late at night. You are alone and wandering empty streets in search of your parked car when you hear […]
Forget adulting for a minute. What does your inner child want today? We’re betting it’s something fun that takes you back to your childhood, where you can explore the great outdoors and just feel like a kid again. How about one of those drones you keep seeing on Instagram and Facebook? They aren’t as expensive […]
