This image could be hung in a gallery, but it started life as a tiny chunk of a woman’s brain. In 2014, a woman undergoing surgery for epilepsy had a tiny chunk of her cerebral cortex removed. This cubic millimeter of tissue has allowed Harvard and Google researchers to produce …
Read More »Public Health Experts Want Coca-Cola and the Olympics to Break Up
The Coca-Cola Company is the longest-standing sponsor of the Olympic Games—a relationship dating so far back that Coke still had cocaine in it when it started. Today, Coca-Cola spends an estimated $20 million every year to associate its brand with that of the Olympics. Whatever its positive effects, the deal …
Read More »Eminem’s New Album Prompted Gen X to Declare a TikTok ‘War’ on Gen Z
In the past week, a somewhat one-sided argument has taken over TikTok. Gen X, it seems, is “declaring war” on Gen Z, going viral with shitposts about what they see as Gen Z’s overreaction to Eminem’s new album The Death of Slim Shady. While it may be hard to work …
Read More »There’s Another Chance to See the Northern Lights This Week
Remember all the social media posts from a few months ago showing the northern lights, in all their glory, in unexpectedly southern places? Well, get ready to potentially see them again, or for the first time: The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) predicts light displays will again appear …
Read More »UK’s Labour Is Winning the Meme War, but Young Voters Think It’s All Incredibly Embarrassing
Almost immediately after the UK general election was called on May 22, the meme war began. Social media campaigns from both the Labour and Conservative parties shared hundreds of memes, from Labour’s viral TikTok using English singer and TV presenter Cilla Black’s “Surprise! Surprise!” to mock the Conservative Party’s plans …
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