You’d be excused for being suspicious of these concoctions. Poured into clear-glass one-gallon jars of unregulated ...

As studio heads like Bob Iger attempt to reassure anxious investors, he and so many others in the industry are confronting ...

Critics and general audiences alike often view these films as over-the-top spectacles lacking meaningful storytelling. The action-packed focus of these films obviously detracts from narrative content; ...

Even so, there’s some evidence that light therapy may have a similar effect on the brain to many antidepressants. In a study published in 2016, 11 patients with SAD treated with two weeks of light ...

In the 1936 screwball comedy mystery The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Dr. Lawrence Bradford (William Powell) asks his ex-wife, the rich mystery writer Paula (Jean Arthur), “What is a cocktail dress?” She replies ...

We know that the choice of language and framing in reporting on these scandals reveal underlying societal prejudices. And, importantly, the media's portrayal of sex scandals not only reflects societal ...

This article by David Robson was originally published in Mosaic Science. It’s republished here with permission under a Creative Commons license. General anesthesia is supposed to make surgery painless ...

In the golden haze of travel blogs and Instagram feeds, the digital nomad lifestyle gleams like a mirage of modern freedom: a laptop perched on a sunlit terrace, the hum of an exotic city in the ...

If you have never seen The Graduate, you can’t really call yourself a film buff. This astounding 1967 movie, directed by the late, great Mike Nichols, co-written by Buck Henry, and starring Dustin ...

Most people have a favorite TV show from childhood. If you’re a parent, there’s also probably a show that your children adored but you found strange, or even a bit creepy. Right now, for many parents, ...

Perhaps what we as readers can do is just take everyone else’s opinions in strides. Take reviews with a grain of salt, and then decide on our own whether a book merits a place in our bookshelves, in ...

I consider myself an honest person, almost to a fault. So the next morning, I went back to the store to pay for the jar, where I summoned the young associate manning customer service to explain what ...