As '70s-ish as the term seems to be, “cool” never seems to go out of style as a desirable attribute. If you have kids or work with them, you’ll likely still hear them put their friends into the two ...

The "cool girl" trope seen in film and media has continuously evolved out of the spotlight, but now, a California-based voice actor wants to highlight how the character has changed to match gender ...

Todd Pezzuti received funding from ANID Chile to conduct this research. From Lagos to Cape Town, Santiago to Seoul, people want to be cool. “Cool” is a word we hear everywhere – in music, in fashion, ...

A new study published in June 2025 has quantified “cool.” The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, isolated six specific traits exhibited by people that contribute to others’ ...

An international team of researchers may have just cracked the code for what makes someone “cool.” And no matter where you live, the personality traits that make someone “cool” appear to be consistent ...

The definition of “cool” would seem to be an ephemeral thing. (We’re not talking temperature here. We’re talking James Dean, Serena Williams, and Arthur Fonzarelli cool.) What inspires one to admire ...

Six traits can determine your ‘it’ factor, according to researchers who measured coolness around the globe. By Christina Caron Is there a secret sauce that helps explain why people as different as ...

The leaders of the Communist Party might be surprised to find they are indebted to a bouncy 20-year-old livestreamer from Ohio called Darren Watkins junior. He goes by the screen name “IShowSpeed” and ...

This is an edition of the newsletter Pulling Weeds With Chris Black, in which the columnist weighs in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. When I was growing ...

Walking in the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens, New York, LL COOL J said, "I love this hood, man. Love this neighborhood. Love everything about it. Love the energy. I made a name for myself rappin' ...

Busta Rhymes, who compares LL to a big brother, says, “L was the first to do a lot of things I didn’t see MCs doing before him. When I was in my early MC stage, he inspired me to rhyme the way I rhyme ...