Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Sleep deprivation used to be a badge of honor: a sign you were busy and important and very much in demand. Snoozing was losing and sleep was for wimps. Now, however, Arianna Huffington’s The Sleep Revolution, a call-to-bed that promises to transform your life, “one night at a time”, is a New York Times bestseller,…
Start Article Post Content It has been a deeply frustrating and blood-soaked spring. Just about every week lately, it’s felt as though TV was hosting a Red Wedding for any character who wasn’t a heterosexual white guy. Women of color, men of color, LGBTQ characters and white female characters have been killed off left and…
8TH UPDATE, Tuesday 6:30PM: Final actuals Before we blame franchise fatigue as the catalyst for paltry Memorial Day openings, we need to also acknowledge the overall downward trend in openings for sequels this year. It’s been rampant across all genres including Ride Along 2, The Divergent Series: Allegiant even Captain America: Civil War (if you compare it to Avengers: Age of…
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft reached an agreement with the EU on Tuesday to block illegal hate speech from their services in Europe. The four internet giants have agreed that they will investigate reports of offensive dialog within 24 hours and either remove or disable access to the content, if it’s found to violate EU…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Facebook, Twitter, Google’s YouTube, Microsoft as well as the European Commission unveiled a new code of conduct to remove hate speech according to community guidelines in less than 24 hours across these social media platforms. The EU has ramped up efforts leading to this code of conduct following the recent terrorist…
Women have been tracking their menstrual cycles since at least the time of Saint Augustine, and yet when Apple introduced its much ballyhooed smartwatch and Health app in 2014, there was one glaring omission: a period tracker. The fact that it took Apple three months longer than it takes a woman to gestate a human…
The ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Self-Loathing Index At this point, it feels like just about every actor in Hollywood has appeared in an ‘X-Men’ movie. This is our comprehensive guide to who wants to be there, who’s phoning it in, and who’s still showing up in the makeup trailer to get their prosthetic claws attached. X-Men: Apocalypse…
When I was 18, my mom sat me down and said, “If there ever comes a time where you feel like a dark cloud is following you, you can get help. You can talk to me, talk to a therapist, talk to doctor. I want you to know that there are options.” I’m so thankful…
You don’t take any medications?” “No.” The doctor stared at me dolefully, then reframed the question. “So, when you get up in the morning, what do you put in your mouth?” he asked with an air of exasperation, as if I was the one who wasn’t getting it. “Oatmeal, usually, and tea with milk.” “You…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump warned reporters May 31, “I’m going to continue to attack the press.” He slammed members of the media as “dishonest” at a news conference about donations he raised for veterans’ groups at Trump Tower in New York. (Reuters) For 10 glorious days, I stepped off the hamster wheel. No newspapers….