Blue-light-filtering glasses have become an increasingly popular solution for shielding our eyes from electronic screens’ near-inescapable glow—light that is commonly associated with eyestrain and poor sleep. In recent years they’ve even become fashion statements that are endorsed by celebrities and ranked in style guides. But a recent review paper shows such lenses might not be … Read more
The curiosity that comes naturally to babies and young children can soon wilt – but there are ways to help it grow When Susan Engel sat in on suburban elementary-school classrooms in the United States, looking for curiosity, she found ‘a surprising absence of it’, she wrote in 2013. Engel, a psychologist at Williams College … Read more
Rents are up, startups are setting up all over the state, but locals can’t get jobs easily. Goa’s Maker’s Asylum is housed in a 100-year-old Portuguese mansion. Maker’s Asylum By Sanghamitra Kar P 28 August 2023 EspañolPortuguês In 2020, lockdowns forced Indian startup Maker’s Asylum to make a tough choice: stay in expensive Mumbai and … Read more
Maybe A League of Their Own was doomed to strike out. A passion project in all senses of the word, it was a reboot hell-bent on showing the queer lives in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that never made it into the 1992 movie. More succinctly, it was the kind of reimagining (long-form, prestige-y, … Read more
When Final Fantasy XIV launched in 2010 expectations were high, as the newest online title from one of the most beloved RPG series around, and a successor to the wildly successful MMO Final Fantasy XI. Unfortunately, Final Fantasy XIV ended up being a catastrophic failure for Square Enix, easily one of the worst the company … Read more