Just like working from home is more popular than ever, so too are walking pads: small, treadmill-like devices that you can place under a standing desk in order to get your steps in during your 9-5. Walking pads have also been viral on TikTok for a while now; even infrequent scrollers have likely seen users
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Blumhouse and the world’s No. 1 circuit AMC Theatres are kicking off BlumFest with movies from the genre production label running every Wednesday starting Sept. 25 in 54 cities and 150 AMC multiplexes. Blumhouse fans can attend special screenings, score one-time-only giveaways, be the first to see exclusive sneak peeks, and more. The national screening
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Rejection: Somewhere on the continuum between a casual date rebuff and a duo-destroying divorce, we’ve all experienced it. In Rejection, Whiting and O. Henry Award-winning author Tony Tulathimutte raises the experience to an art form. In seven connected stories, he chronicles several characters’ vivid responses to being turned down, or turned away.  By vivid, I
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Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and CEO of 23andMe Holding Co. has reiterated her commitment to taking the genetic testing company private following the resignation of its independent board members. In a memo to employees, Wojcicki expressed her belief that removing 23andMe from the pressures of public markets would offer the best path for achieving the company’s
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. 2024 Ignatz Awards Announced The Ignatz Awards, the festival prize of the Small Press Expo recognizing “outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning,” announced its 2024 winners and reignited my passion for the form. The winners
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Broadway added a couple shows and a 7% bump in receipts last week, with a roster of recent arrivals like McNeal, Yellow Face and The Roommate drawing considerable interest. Most shows saw an uptick in box office and solid business for the week ending September 15. McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr. in his Broadway debut,
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As Gillian Anderson prepared for her role as a sex therapist in the British TV show Sex Education (which this writer quickly added to her Netflix queue), she read the 1973 cult classic My Secret Garden, a compendium of fantasies collected by novelist Nancy Friday. In Friday’s book, Anderson writes, it was revealed that “.
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OpenAI has announced that CEO Sam Altman will step down from the company’s safety and security committee, which will now consist entirely of independent board members. This decision addresses concerns raised by critics about the committee’s ability to effectively oversee OpenAI’s practices while Altman, the company’s CEO, was still a member. The newly restructured committee
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