Everyone is acting so weird! The most obvious recent weirdness was when Will Smith smacked Chris Rock at the Oscars. But if you look closely, people have been behaving badly on smaller stages for months now. Last week, a man was arrested after he punched a gate agent at the Atlanta airport. (The gate agent looked like he was about to punch back, until his female colleague, bless her soul, stood on some chairs and said “no” to the entire situation.) That wasn’t even the only viral asshole-on-a-plane video that week.In February, people found ways to throw tantrums while skiing—skiing. In one viral video, a man slid around the chairlift-boarding area of a Canadian resort, one foot strapped into his...
Photography by Cody Guilfoyle; Styling by Naomi deMañana. As a mom of two (ages 6 and 7), I have style director duties that extend beyond my role at Domino. At home I’m also in charge of scouting for new products, but my priority there is finding holiday projects that are fun, easy, entertaining—and hold my kids’ attention for more than one minute. In my experience, the dip-and-dye Easter egg protocol doesn’t have much of a life span. My kids plunk their hard-boiled eggs in, fish them out a few minutes later, and then they’re off to the next adventure before the coloring has even dried. That is until I came across this simple Amazon product that keeps my little creatives...
The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) adopted a detracking initiative in the 2014–15 school year, eliminating accelerated middle and high school math classes, including the option for advanced students to take Algebra I in eighth grade. The policy stands today. High schools feature a common math sequence of heterogeneously-grouped classes studying Algebra I in ninth grade and Geometry in tenth grade. After tenth grade, students are allowed to take math courses reflecting different abilities and interests. Implementing the Common Core was provided as the impetus for the change. When first proposed, district officials summed up the reform as, “There would no longer be honors or gifted mathematics classes, and there would no longer be Algebra I in eighth grade...
For many Filipino Americans, SPAM isn’t just a beloved ingredient in a popular breakfast dish: It is a marker of Filipino identity. But after months of reporting on the canned meat and its cultural meaning, Gabrielle Berbey, an associate producer for The Experiment podcast, came to realize that SPAM’s history was far more complex than she’d originally thought. “SPAM, in my family, had this almost lore-like quality about it,” Berbey says. Yet for others, over time, SPAM came to represent the Philippines’ dependence on fatty, salty canned foods imported from overseas. “It turns out that a lot of people are wrestling with SPAM’s legacy.”Berbey recently joined Julia Longoria, the host of The Experiment, for a conversation on Twitter Spaces to...
Billie is proof that opposites attract. I could remember a time in high school when I noticed her looking teary-eyed as we played a videogame where people chuck grenades at each other. I asked what was wrong. “I was just thinking about how sad I would be if I couldn’t have kids,” she replied, and after a silent moment we both started to giggle. Eventually, she had two, though she waited until her thirties before starting her family. Like mine, Billie’s parents were theater artists, except they’d stuck together. She’d grown up with her brother and parents in a rent-controlled one-bedroom on Avenue A, as my mother and I moved from apartment to apartment around the East Village grid. Even...
