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Stories in Culture
Can AI perfect the IPA?
By Tony Rehagen
With help from AI, a Holocaust survivor’s story lives on
By Tony Rehagen
These video games are based on nothing but words
By Mehitabel Glenhaber
How Wordle brought us back together
By Schuyler Velasco
Go to a concert with your friends — without actually being there
By Jim Sullivan
Youth sports is losing referees. This training app could help.
By Matt Crossman
Stories in Culture
Remembering wars, through VR goggles
By Tony Rehagen
What’s in that petri dish? Your next burger.
By Kara Baskin
How magic survived the pandemic
By Glenn McDonald
Sparkles, poo, and crying eyes: This website interprets emoji
By Tony Rehagen
Why Shakespeare and Melville are so good at Twitter
By Margaret Eby
Cats helped build the internet. Now, the web is giving back.
By Eoin O'Carroll
Stories in Culture
Riding the big wave with an inflatable safety vest
By Kade Krichko
Online, Black gardeners are celebrating the act of working their own land
By A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez
The key to a kinder, gentler internet? Capybaras.
By Eoin O’Carroll
The internet’s most useless website is a well of deep wisdom
By Eoin O'Carroll
Run or pass? In this football league, the fans decide.
By John Terhune
Robot dancers could hold us closer
By Tony Rehagen
Stories in Culture
One simple question? There’s a website for that — and only that
By Alix Strauss
My pandemic pup was anxious. Tech helped me track him — and myself.
By Ceci Menchetti
What do you want to dream about? Soon, you may be able to choose.
By Hannah Thomasy
The pandemic saved the fast food industry
By Kara Baskin
The surprising magic of a COVID-era charity super-video
By Jim Sullivan
These scientists want to make your brain enjoy broccoli
By Stav Dimitropoulos
Stories in Culture
These films are guided tours of lost urban landscapes
By Ezra Haber Glenn
The secret ingredient of comfort food? Struggle.
By Kara Baskin
72 years before George Floyd, this police killing sparked national protests
By Schuyler Velasco
She strings sculptures from the sky
By Tracy Staedter
On this road trip, the car wrote a novel
By Tony Rehagen
Stories in Culture
Inside TikTok’s hypnotic, colorful, and lucrative art world
By Lian Parsons-Thomason
POW! Web comics burst out of the panel.
By Tony Rehagen
These artists use basketball courts as their canvas
By Jim Sullivan
It’s not Dali. It’s AI.
By Tony Rehagen
Stories in Culture
Putting on a virtual choir is impossible. Everyone is doing it.
By Schuyler Velasco
The quarantine movie queue: 10 films about the power of science
By Glenn McDonald
Thanks to 3D printing, the future of toys is faster and cheaper
By Glenn McDonald
Need stress relief at a challenging time? Try slime.
By Alix Strauss
Stories in Culture
We saved the world from a pandemic — in a board game
By Glenn McDonald
These scientists want to make real cheese without the cow
By Jim Sullivan
Dancing a once-forbidden hula, at long last
By Catherine Toth Fox
Stories in Culture
Bringing the human heart to life
By Ceci Menchetti
Inside the world of Spotify ‘fan fiction’ playlists
By Lian Parsons-Thomason
The voting innovation no one’s talking about
By Cori Brosnahan
How technology is changing the spice trade
By Alison Stein
This band camp for Rush fans is more than just a party in the woods
By Matt Crossman
Stories in Culture
This college athlete lost her leg, learned to run again, and is aiming for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics
By Lauren Daley
I started an oyster garden — and then ate it
By Paul Heltzel
In Paris, an amateur baker meets her match — macarons
By Lian Parsons-Thomason
This improv theater plumbs the emotions behind our divisions
By Hattie Bernstein
A fashion show for cats? Meow, darling.
By Alix Strauss
Lovers of feral cats prowl the world’s streets
By Jim Sullivan
Stories in Culture
The virtuous, mail-order, bot-shaken future of booze
By Glenn McDonald
This veteran found healing through driving a Porsche — fast
By Matt Crossman
Behind the fur: A baseball mascot tells all
By Jessica Palombo Gustafson
I Tried It: Being a paid audience member
By Alison Stevenson
Speedgate, the sport invented by artificial intelligence
By Glenn McDonald
Stories in Culture
She went from fire-eating to running the ring
By Alix Strauss
Bending the spoon, and other secrets of ESP
By Glenn McDonald
The anguishing memoir he had to write
By Kara Baskin
A race where you push yourself — and a stroller
By Jim Sullivan
What color are my eyes? It depends.
By Margaret Eby
The day I brought my knitting to the boardroom
By Alexandra Samuel
Stories in Culture
Dancing away from gender roles
By Cori Brosnahan
Cornhole (yes, cornhole) is going pro
By Glenn McDonald
At this fast food restaurant, machines do the cooking
By Heather Kapplow
All the beauty products he could ever want
By Alix Strauss
Performing my first opera — al fresco
By Maryann De Leo
Stories in Culture
Visiting the ghosts of Hollywood’s past — and maybe hearing them talk
By Alison Stevenson
Finding the cheese that speaks to you
By Julia Beck
This is the future of clothing
By Glenn McDonald
An adult learning piano? Put on your headphones.
By Evan Judd
When protest came dressed in a tiara
By Heather Kapplow
She’ll sell you Springsteen’s guitar or dancing with Madonna
By Alix Strauss
Stories in Culture
How fiction predicted today’s AI
By Glenn McDonald
How to win at civil debate
By Jenni Gritters
Trophies, ‘Chambongs,’ and food, of course
By Alix Strauss
The strange satisfaction of a sports injury
By Jim Sullivan
From a basement office, she made the White House bloom
By Julia Beck
Getting inked is just part of his job
By Julia Beck
Stories in Culture
The ghost in my Netflix account
By Jen Deaderick
Career Day: The Greeting Card Writer
By Schuyler Velasco
Teaching English in the shadow of the border wall
By Kellye Hooks
On tour with the world’s only punk banjo star
By Glenn McDonald
I Tried It: Ax throwing
By Megan Johnson
Career Day: The Opera Singer
By Julia Beck
Stories in Culture
The race to save a forbidden language in Alaska
By Ella Jacobson
Career Day: The Cheetah Trainer
By Amy Sutherland
When the Saints are on the march, his voice gives them a boost
By Stephanie Grace
My search for the best fried chicken in New York
By Schuyler Velasco
This is the future of food
By Glenn McDonald
I don’t want to stop singing ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside.’
By Debbie Gravitte
Stories in Culture
Career Day: The Oyster Shucker
By Alix Strauss
Career Day: The Travel Agent
By Schuyler Velasco
Fiction: Father figure
By Alix Strauss
Cranberry sauce, un-canned
By Glenn McDonald
Career Day: The Food Stylist
By Tracy Mayor
Stories in Culture
A pencil, a marker, and ‘pure magic’
By Natalie Pompilio
I Tried It: Aura photo
By Schuyler Velasco
Career Day: The Lighting Designer
By Jenni Gritters
Playing both sides
By Glenn McDonald
Your guide to becoming an Instagram star
By Jenni Gritters
When clowns were cool
By Natalie Pompilio
Stories in Culture
The Pop-Tart whisperer
By David Filipov
‘A mirror made out of sound’
By Thea Breite, Nicholas Pfosi, and Sofia Adams
Storm chaser
By Jessica Palombo Gustafson
Mind over water
By Delia Cabe
I was dying up there
By Allen Strickland Williams
Career Day: The Lexicographer
By Schuyler Velasco
