If you have been anywhere in Manhattan this week without a ticket to Please Clap, you have felt it: the ambient anxiety of missing something that matters. The show, which runs March 27 and 28, has already become the conv...
In the quiet moments before a root canal or a routine cleaning, your dentist may soon ask you questions that sound oddly like something a cardiologist would ask. Have you had chest pain? Any family history of heart disea...
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a coordinated air campaign against Iran with a scope and precision that caught even seasoned Middle East analysts off guard. The target: Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Kh...
There is a certain irony in watching a Parisian maison charge $900 for a pair of earrings that a craftsman in Rajasthan has been making for centuries. The jhumka — that bell-shaped, filigree-worked drop earring that has...
For decades, neuroscientists have treated the brain as a locked box. They could measure the symptoms of psychiatric illness — the despair of depression, the racing thoughts of mania, the fragmentation of schizophrenia —...
In 2003, a Swedish philosopher named Nick Bostrom published a paper that would quietly reshape how some of the world's brightest minds think about reality itself. The argument was elegant and unsettling: if a sufficientl...
Ten days into the US-Israel military operation against Iran, Americans are feeling it at the pump. Gas prices have surged roughly 20% since joint airstrikes launched on February 28, with the national average for regular...
Samsung didn't just release a new phone this year. It may have reset expectations for what a flagship device can do. The Galaxy S26 Ultra, unveiled at Galaxy Unpacked on February 25 and releasing March 11, has already be...
Thirty years ago, two Game Boy cartridges — Pokémon Red and Green — launched in Japan with modest expectations. Today, Pokémon is the highest-grossing media franchise in history, worth an estimated $150 billion. The mile...
The most anticipated night in fashion has a theme — and it's one that leaves almost no creative limit. The 2026 Met Gala, set for May 4 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will center on the exhibition Costume Art, with a...
A 1989 Japanese animated film about a teenage witch and her talking cat is selling out IMAX theaters across North America in 2026. That's not a quirk. That's Studio Ghibli. Kiki's Delivery Service hits IMAX screens on Ma...
The generation that grew up on smartphones is now making a point of putting them down. "Going analogue" has emerged as one of TikTok's most counterintuitive viral trends of 2026 — a movement spreading across the very pla...
It started innocuously enough. Someone posted a throwback photo. Then a celebrity did the same. Then 37 million Instagram posts followed. "2026 is the new 2016" has become the defining viral trend of early this year — a...
Yoga represents perhaps India's most successful cultural export to the West. From relative obscurity in the 1960s when a few countercultural Americans encountered yoga through spiritual teachers and Eastern philosophy, i...
