Boston is the city of sports. Everywhere you look, there’s an ad for sports betting or the next Celtics game.
The petition to ditch Alaska’s ranked-choice voting was filed with the Division of Elections in January, and the Division has been busy verifying the signatures to make sure there are enough to put the question on the ballot.
On Nov. 5, 2024, Americans will elect a president, and that means in 365 days, either the Democrats will continue to steer the direction of the country, or the Republicans will take on what has become a nearly existential challenge of righting the ship of a torn and troubled United States.
As someone whose seasonal anime viewing all too often turns into an "oops, all isekai" extravaganza, I've seen my fair share of isekai with totally off-the-wall premises that make you utter "only in anime" with a fond, if slightly baffled, smile.
Measurement was a crucial organizing principle in ancient Egypt, but metrology itself does not begin with nilometers. To understand its place in human culture, we have to trace its roots back further, to the invention of writing itself.
“Get in, loser, we’re going shopping.” Name a more cutting one-liner that resonates with the souls of shopaholics than this bittersweet dig from Regina George.
The wisdom of Ptahhotep is timeless advice for our current age. “The First Listicle Was Created In Egypt 4,000 Years Ago” is published by Erik Brown in History of Yesterday.
Have you ever started writing a list, but noticed each point you make is really long? Well, you might have written a listicle, which is a list that has a lot in common with an article.
Since Moses’ Ten Commandments introduced the sublime phenomena of the listicle, humankind has been drawn to numbered textual forms that placate our brief attention spans.
Travel writing used to be an art. Visitors to far away lands with a knack for prose used to come back and regale us with rich stories about the exotic places they visited and the culturally diverse people they met as they shared their customs and expanded our horizons.
The bread and butter of online journalism, epitomized by lists like “The 25 Most Kimye Things That Have Ever Happened,” got its start in a 19th-century column in the New York Times.
It seems like nothing gets published these days unless it’s in listicle format. In my day, we learned to write paragraphs with good strong opening sentences and mic-dropping closing sentences– but we didn’t call them mic-dropping, because the phrase “mic drop” hadn’t been invented yet.
What's the best thing you can have to quench your thirst on a scorching summer day? Lemonades, yes, followed by another sweet delectable drink, popular among Dhakaiites – lassi!