Can you imagine? Being wrong for hours, sometimes even days was life before the internet and our ability to pull Wikipedia out of our pocket. Before portable computers and our instant ability to resolve factual disputes, writer Ben Tarnoff points out in a New Yorker […]
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Cat or Dog?
Growing up, we were a cat family. This didn’t work out well for my younger brother, John, who was a dog person through and through. He solved the problem by simply pretending Winklemeyer was a dog. He never once let up on the claim. Much […]
Who says a white girl can’t say namaste?
Who says a white girl can’t say namaste? They ate expensively and they tipped extraordinarily well, but what really made me love them was how they wrapped me into their conversation every time I returned to the table with more rolls or a fresh round […]
