Wow, how about that stock market?  It’s a phrase we keep having to dust off and use again, as the years go by and the market keeps surprising us.  When it crashes, some of us worry becaus…

Air traffic controllers play a vital role in aviation safety, but how much do you really know about what goes on in the control tower? Go behind the scenes and find out what a day in their life is rea...

Dolly

Baldwin began with inspiration from her own junk drawer, sharing on social media and getting suggestions from viewers.

You're not the traveler it was made for. You never were.

The good news: We won’t have a civil war. The bad news: This uncivil war we’re having will continue forever.

I've been chastised on social media by graphic designers who are shaming small businesses using AI to create ads for a special event or offering. Are those folks the right target?

Michael Hiltzik, Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for the Los Angeles Times, explains why Dr. Anthony Fauci took the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify when questioned by Senator Rand Paul&#821…

Adrian Brody, Ed Sheeran, Jack White, who next? It’s Nice That’s culture columnist examines why megastars can’t seem to make it as respected artists, and argues that the worlds of fine art and celebri...

A recent writers’ group discussion resurfaced many of the same types of questions asked in our crochet communities decades ago. I was reminded of what it was like when everything about “busin…

Equine therapy meets plant medicine.

The artist explores "how changing the hierarchy of materials can reshape the way we perceive value, dignity, and the human experience."

In the early 1970s, the producer Albert R. Broccoli commissioned the artist Salvador Dalí to make a tarot deck for the upcoming James Bond film Live and Let Die. Based on Ian Fleming’s 1954 n…

Sound, Art, Vegetables

That's how you make good art.

A Pizza Hut and a whole lot of tears

Reporting back from the extra years nobody prepared us for. Free guides and daily essays about the second act, when life's still going but the instructions have vanished.For when you need to know you'...

A hundred and fifteen years ago, Christian Larson wrote one of the first popular self-help manifestos. The Optimist’s Creed argued that it was a choice, and a useful promise. Not to promise t…

On the untimely passing of Tony Stella, a young artist with an old soul.

Former college football head coach. Host of SilentPunt. Stories about life, sports, family, and the occasional WTF. 🥃. Click to read SilentPunt, by Henny Hiemenz, a Substack publication with hundreds ...

I'm sharing this motivating post from Zeens and Roger rather than writing one myself because, well, she has done this summer project thing so much better! Also, I've been going through a difficult time after a bad fall I took a week ago. Miraculous that nothing broke in the 75-year-old body and that I didn't hit my head hard. Still, a serious wrist sprain, multiple bruises, and a swollen ankle have made me pouty, grouchy, unmotivated, and physically unable to do anything crochet.

The private events group, cofounded by Peter Thiel, says a “criminal” hacker is behind a breach that exposed members’ personal details. WIRED found no evidence a break-in was needed to access the file...

The end isn't nigh I feel the need to issue a public service announcement, to try to alleviate some of the extreme anxiety I keep encountering in people, and sometimes feel in m...

Designers at Aalto University in Finland have turned wood from a 300-year-old shipwreck into an elegant knit dress.

The travel industry is on edge after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin reiterated his threat to withdraw U.S.

The American health care system is mind-bogglingly cruel and cryptic. When Parker Jones found herself trying to read countless medical documents, she teamed up with Rajshree Saraf to reverse-engineer ...

Being human is up to us.

What if your next great ideas aren’t waiting somewhere new, but are already sitting in your junk drawer, your kitchen, or your commute? We speak to three creatives across disciplines about how they tr...

Ukrainian artist Jonko "George" Voronovsky (1903-1982) transformed his one-room residence into a vibrant environment of "memoryscapes."

Super 8 film grain and rare glimpses of John Lennon and Yoko Ono on holiday in Greece are unearthed for this music video created for an app designed to allow people to meditate to music (sounds like s...

Status is the new, definitive nightly briefing that informs readers about what is really happening in the corridors of media power.

There is a new generation rising behind the Boomers, and they are saying something this country never expected to hear:

WHEREAS, in August 2025, the AFT passed a resolution supporting the national boycott of Target stores, which was led by faith and community organizations in reaction to Target’s rollback of commitment...

Five Year Plans and No Budget Visioning

Jennifer Rubin, ex-columnist for The Washington Post, now leads The Contrarian, a home for dissatisfied ex-Republicans and outraged democrats. She wrote the following. “Everyone saw this coming exc…

The series explores what happens when textiles become a publishing tool and brings our editorial interactions closer to the skin.

Centrist Democrats need to push for change, not bandwagon behind the broken establishment.

How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life