Growing Up with the Face of a Bad Guy
What westerns, cartoons, and racist rich kids taught me about representation in media I n the third grade, my homeroom class watched a terrible western-style clip involving...
Integrated Graphics Are About to Get Way Better
Forget buying a dedicated graphics card, pretty soon you’ll be gaming without one. At least, if you’re part of the 90% of people who still game at...
What I Learned When I Tried to Get My Mom to Read
At the tail end of summer, my mom suffered a bad fall and fractured her leg. It was a devastating injury which rendered her immobilized for...
Reflections From a Soon-to-Be High School English Teacher
As a lifelong, unrepentant book nerd, I shouldn’t be surprised to find myself here—poised to become a high school English teacher. I believe that most lifelong...
Best Paranormal and Fantasy Romances of 2018: A Hogwarts Reading List
There something about the holidays the get me in the mood to read (or watch) some Harry Potter. Perhaps it is because I’ll never quite get...
Remembering My Childhood Through Cookbooks
The home I grew up in had a large, diverse garden in the backyard, and the kitchen was the center of my home. You had to...
11 Book Adaptations to End 2018 with a Reel Lit Bang
As we prepare for 2019 and say goodbye to 2018, there’s little time left for us to get our fill of the boatload of book-to-movie (and...
Researchers are putting fish into augmented reality tanks
Researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, while testing the “station keeping” functions of the glass knifefish, have created an augmented reality system that tricks...
How to become full-stack web developer
The internet is growing at an astonishing rate, moving more and more private and commercial entities online. It appears, soon enough, there won’t be a person...
Maybe It Doesn’t Have to Be All or Nothing: Appreciating ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
During my first year in New York, I learned that an old theater, not far from my apartment, showed It’s a Wonderful Life at Christmastime. I...
