Embed from Getty Images     The Chicago Cubs, finally, are World Series champions. With their dramatic Game 7 win over the Cleveland Indians early Thursday morning, the Cubs collected their first World Series title since 1908. At the time of that World Series, Teddy Roosevelt was president, Ford had just introduced the Model T,…

Creative people often perform an ongoing balance of internal strength and external openness.  Few creatives know this delicate balance more than rapper Kanye West, the multifaceted artist who faces both critical acclaim and public scorn on a daily basis.    After an 11-month absence from Twitter, West recently returned to the platform to annouce two new albums and…

When shopping for clothes online, the vast majority of women have to constantly ask themselves the following question: “What will it look like on me?” Why? Because most of the time the models in the catalog are a size two, while 68% of American women are a size 14 or above.  This massive gap between…

On a Wednesday night in February, I watched in frustration as NBC News fretted about the “out of control” protest at the UC-Berkeley Campus, led by “anarchists” against Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopolus, who’d been invited to speak by the Berkeley College Republicans. Though the fire and the broken windows were alarming to some, I was more discouraged that…

Last week, scientists delivered the news that more than 90% of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering from bleaching. Researchers flew in helicopters and small planes over 911 of the individual reefs that comprise the Great Barrier Reef and found that only 68 of them had escaped bleaching entirely. Many of the rest have turned…

When you’re Donald Trump, the show must go on. Even as his administration continues to reel from alleged ties to Russia, the president is making time for surprise appearances during White House tours. But his first unscheduled cameo came with a bit of painful irony. On Tuesday, President Trump literally emerged “from behind a wooden…

One of the saddest aspects of our modern society is our innate fear of strangers. From birth, we’re raised being told about “stranger danger” and to be weary of people we’ve never met. Even as crime rates have plummeted over the past 30 years, people live in greater fear of one another than ever. Imagine a…

When Cynthia Nixon announced her run for governor earlier in 2018, a lot of people didn’t take her seriously. The immediate headlines made jokes about the actress’s iconic “Sex and the City” character, portraying her campaign as a vanity exercise in a time when a reality TV star actually became president and other celebrities like Kanye West…

Martellus Bennett helped the New England Patriots win a Super Bowl championship on Sunday, but he will not be joining the team on their visit to the White House to be honored by President Donald Trump later this year. “I haven’t thought about it,” the Patriots’ tight end told reporters after the game. “But I’m…

Probiotics: They’re not just for your kombucha anymore.    When it comes to public health, infection and pollution often pose similar problems. They can move fast, resist treatment, and cost a lot of money to find a cure. But thanks to some inventive bioscience, there’s a new way to turn bacteria to our advantage in the…