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There Is Nothing Whimsical About Plastic: Stop Adding Jewels to Everything
Take it back to the beginning and there was something genuinely lovely about whimsy in everyday life. It meant a cute charm on your bag, mismatched socks, a strange painting you thrifted, or wearing something ridiculous simply because you liked it. I collect wine bottles and turn them into bangle stands. Whimsy at its best was about seeing what you already had a little differently. It was never about having more.
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The Rising Cost of Popcorn
Going to the movie theater is one of the easiest outings to plan with your friends, mainly because of how inexpensive yet unifying the experience is. You get to see a story unfold alongside the people you love, while sharing a communion of food all in one sitting. All of these elements make visiting the movie theater worthwhile.
It’s a Show. It’s a Lifestyle. It’s Now a Homeware Range: The Epidemic of Gilmore Girls Merch
Gilmore Girls merch has colonised autumn. We investigate why the pyjamas arrive in August, who is actually profiting, and whether owning a Luke’s Diner mug makes you tacky.
It is the first week of August. The sun is still out, nobody has thought about a coat, and yet the shops have already filled up with burgundy pyjamas printed with pictures of a fictional gazebo in Connecticut.
Meet the Lost Women of Science: The Long Work of Giving Credit Back
In 1929, a large earthquake struck near New Zealand and sent shock waves rolling through the body of the planet. In Copenhagen, a seismologist named Inge Lehmann sat down with the readings and found something that should not have been there. Waves were turning up at stations where the accepted model of the Earth said they could not possibly arrive. Most of us can name the men who split the atom or mapped the double helix.
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The Rising Cost of Popcorn
Going to the movie theater is one of the easiest outings to plan with your friends, mainly because of how inexpensive yet unifying the experience is. You get to see a story unfold alongside the people you love, while sharing a communion of food all in one sitting. All of these elements make visiting the movie theater worthwhile.
Everything I Read During My English Degree
What I read, and was it any good?
Twenty-three books, three years, one degree, and a lot of opinions I am now going to inflict on you.
Here is the thing nobody tells you about studying English: the reading list is not a list of books you will love. It is a list of books someone decided you should have opinions about. Some of them changed my life. Some of them I resented every single page of.
Five Trending Audios to Use for Your Next Outfit Reveal on TikTok
The difference between an outfit video that gets 400 views and the same outfit video that gets 40,000 is often nothing to do with the outfit. It's when you posted, relative to the life cycle of the sound you used.
We're on a road to nowhere: Anthony Bourdain and the universal desire to travel
Like most British people growing up in the 2000s, I had harboured a hatred for Jamie Oliver before I could even read. His healthy eating campaign in schools, which began in 2005, eventually led to promises from Prime Minister Tony Blair and official legislation in 2008 banning junk food in primary and secondary schools. Although his actions meant I could no longer clog my arteries into obesity on a crisp Tuesday lunchtime in 2012...
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