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How Latin identity became fodder for content

Saturday, December 10, 2022

From TikTok trends to mainstream music, popular culture is embracing — and mimicking — Latinos, with some creators actually pretending to be Latinx for social cachet.

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How protesters in China bypass online censorship to express dissent

Thursday, December 08, 2022

After weeks of protests, officials in China are loosening the country's notoriously strict anti-COVID measures. How did protestors succeed despite heavy online censorship?

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How Twitter's platform helped its users, personally and professionally

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

For some users, Twitter was more than just an app — it was a stepping stone for their careers and activism

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As Twitter's workforce crumbles, users are tweeting their eulogies for the platform

Friday, November 18, 2022

As Twitter employees and some users have been leaving the platform, they've been tweeting their eulogies — and their love letters to the communities they built there.

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'Ellen Needs Insurance' is the real story of an actor in her quest to get coverage

Thursday, November 10, 2022

When Ellen Haun and Dru Johnston needed to meet a deadline for health insurance through their union, they decided to get creative.

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Talking to strangers might make you happier, a study on 'relational diversity' finds

Saturday, October 29, 2022

A study finds that we are happier the more we talk with different categories of people — colleagues, family, strangers — and the more evenly our conversations are spread out among those groups.

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What Yankee candle reviews can tell us about COVID

Monday, October 17, 2022

After seeing Twitter threads pointing out a potential link between negative candle reviews and spikes in COVID cases, one professor sought to determine if there was a relationship between the two.

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Why did he suspect a COVID surge was coming? He followed the digital breadcrumbs

Sunday, October 16, 2022

A theory about online candle reviews and COVID cases was put under the microscope, and has taken on new relevance amid concern at the lack of official data heading into another winter.

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There's a spike in respiratory illness among children — and it's not just COVID

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Sick kids are crowding emergency rooms in parts of the country and some pediatric hospitals say they're running out of beds.

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Just Do It: How the iconic Nike tagline built a career for the late Dan Wieden

Thursday, October 06, 2022

Advertising legend Dan Wieden, who created the iconic Nike slogan Just Do It, died last week at the age of 77 — leaving behind a legacy that changed the industry.

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This GOP strategist is calling on Republican senators to safeguard same-sex marriage

Friday, September 16, 2022

With the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, many are concerned that same-sex marriage could be next. Will Republicans band together to protect this right for Americans?

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How the U.K. plans to keep world leaders safe as they arrive for the queen's funeral

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

With world leaders and dignitaries flying in from all over the world, this is how authorities in London are planning to keep everyone safe.

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A kidnapped goddess returns home, after prosecutors expose art thieves

Saturday, September 10, 2022

The antiquities hailed from Italy and Egypt, and were returned after the Manhattan District Attorney enacted search warrants.

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The viral masterminds behind 'It's Corn' have been at this for over a decade

Saturday, September 03, 2022

The Gregory Brothers had already mastered making viral moments into even more viral songs. Then a young boy professed his love of buttered corn — in the age of TikTok.

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Does your rewards card know if you're pregnant? Privacy experts sound the alarm

Saturday, August 13, 2022

Last month, a viral Twitter thread sparked fear and debate about the ways consumer data was being stored and sold by big-box stores, and how this could take on a new dimension in a post-Roe world.

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Emmett Till's family says 'white pedestal' theory has denied them justice for decades

Thursday, July 14, 2022

The family of Emmett Till want authorities to serve a 1955 arrest warrant to the white woman they say is responsible for his murder and kidnapping.

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Sri Lankan protesters party in the president's mansion as he flees the country

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Protesters in Sri Lanka who spent the weekend occupying the president's palace have now entered and torched the prime minister's private mansion as well.

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Teens are dressing in suits to see 'Minions' as meme culture and boredom collide

Saturday, July 09, 2022

A viral trend depicts teens in suits on their way to go see the latest installment in the minions universe. Here's why.

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Inflation killed the $1 pizza slice. Long live the 99c iced tea

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

A viral tweet claimed the AriZona Iced Tea was raising its price from 99 cents to $1.29. It wasn't true, but could it happen in the near future?

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We asked teachers how their year went. They warned of an exodus to come

Saturday, June 18, 2022

After a rough couple of years, we asked teachers to tell us how they are doing. Their answers were revealing.

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