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Fun fact: there are 86 museums in the District of Columbia, 291 in Maryland and a whopping 522 in Virginia! With such an expansive breadth and availability of cultural, social, historic, scientific, agricultural, and academic options to view public…

Memorable Museum Visits in the DMV

It’s almost that time of year again when families gather together sporting their best red-white-and-blue at social events that feature good old-fashioned hotdogs and watermelon while the fireworks dazzle and entertain the crowds. Before we know it,…

Celebrate the 4th of July in the DMV

Parents shower love upon their children by kissing and cuddling them. Children are energized by that love and cuddle their stuffed animals and pets. Interestingly, there is a modern form of cuddling that is perfect for families and children of all…

Goat Kid Cuddling Experiences In & Near the DMV

What is autism spectrum disorder (ASD)? According to the National Institute of Mental Health, children who have autism may experience a variety of symptoms with differing levels of severity that brings them within the autism spectrum and makes…

Summer Camps for Your Child on the Autism Spectrum

In January 2022, College Board, the not-for-profit member organization comprised of many higher education systems, announced that the SAT suite of assessments, including the PSAT, will be delivered digitally throughout the world. In the United…

The Shift to All-Digital PSATs and SATs

Today, Washington, D.C. native Taro Alexander is a happily married father of three who has successfully founded and managed SAY: The Stuttering Association for the Young in New York and D.C. for many years. As an adult, he knows how to handle his…

Acceptance of Children who Stutter

On September 22, we celebrated not only the first day of fall, but nearly one month of our children being back at school. Throughout the DMV, the public school systems have welcomed back students, teachers, and school administrators for the 2022-2023…

Navigating the Return to School With Continuity of Services

Hispanic Heritage Month Familia Celebracións Each autumn, we send our children off to school as we await the start of a monthlong cultural celebration of people who speak Spanish and bear Latino ancestry. From September 15 to October 15, the United…

Hispanic Heritage Month Familia Celebracións

Every Student Shines in Nysmith School’s STEM Program Nysmith School is a private school in Herndon, Virginia with an educational philosophy to provide gifted children in grades K-8 “a joy-filled world-class education.” This has earned the school top…

Every Student Shines in Nysmith School’s STEM Program

Girlhood (It’s Complicated) Exhibit In 2020, the National Museum of American History opened the exhibit, “Girlhood (It’s Complicated)” to celebrate the “Role of Girls in History During the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage.” The exhibit, spanning…

Girlhood (It’s Complicated) Exhibit

You may have heard of escape rooms. They originated in Japan in 2007, created by a man named Takao Kato who was inspired by computer-based labyrinths from online games. He had heard people liked to solve puzzles and escape from single rooms, so he…

Escape Rooms & Why You Should Visit One

There is nothing quite like the familiarity of buying peanuts and Cracker Jacks and not knowing whether you’ll ever go back home because there is so much fun to be had at a baseball game! Now that spring training has kicked off another season of…

Family Outings With Minor League & Collegiate Baseball

How do you balance life with work and kids? An age-old question that every parent asks themselves at one point or another. Rocky Parrish, dadpreneur with 7 kids takes that question to another level. Rocky Parrish from Alexandria, Virginia is a local…

Dadpreneur with 7 Kids Talks About Finding Balance

Baltimore Attractions Worth the Drive at: Inner Harbor – Baltimore, MD Baltimore’s Inner Harbor is one of the most important landmarks in the city. It is the site of a historic seaport and features several museums, entertainment venues and tourist…

Baltimore Attractions Worth the Drive

For the last seven years, peppy mom of one Lauryn Ricketts has easily done what many of us would need A LOT of coffee to accomplish – wake up in the dead of night to be on the air very early before most alarms go off to forecast the weather. Ricketts…

How Meteorologist Lauryn Ricketts Weathered the Road to Motherhood

Our Washington, D.C. metropolitan area has lots of exciting museums and attractions waiting for us to explore, but due to hectic work and family schedules, we may not always have the time or opportunity to go. One cool way to get us to venture out is…

Playing Tourist in D.C.

A local fisherman is leading the hunt for an invasive and potentially damaging species. Since 2018, Captain Travis Stauch from RamRod Bowfishing in Woodbridge has been offering charters to small groups of people for the conquest and capture of the…

Why People Are Using Bows and Arrows to Fish the Northern Snakehead

This year, on Sunday, February 13, women will be celebrating each other by getting together and doing fun things in the name of sisterhood and female empowerment. This relatively new annual celebration is called Galentine’s Day and takes place the…

Mothers Celebrating Each Other on Galentine’s Day

Is your child more comfortable in the dance studio or the dojo? Racing in go-karts or with their classmates at band practice? On the soccer field with their team or alone at an easel? One way to help you and your child decide which of the myriad day…

Take a Look at Arts and Sports Summer Camps

Throughout 2021, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts celebrated its milestone 50 years of existence. As we kick off the new year in 2022 and join the Kennedy Center in its 50th year celebration, here’s some history and memorable facts…

The Kennedy Center Celebrates 50 Years of the Arts!

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While staying in Naples for the winter, Margaret Sheahan and her mother Mary Beth found themselves in a dilemma all too common during 2020: they were exposed to COVID-19 and needed a test before potentially exposing more members of their family. When…

Are clinics cashing in on COVID-19 testing with upfront fees?

The mother of a teenager who was tased by an FHP trooper last week has hired an attorney to help fight the arrest she says happened because of racial profiling. Sixteen-year-old Jack Rodeman was arrested by Trooper George Smyrnios on June 16 and is…

Teen tased: Did state trooper violate policy?

A Fort Myers police officer is on paid leave after allegations by the FBI that he engaged in misconduct. Jason Jackson returned to work on April 6 after being on paid administrative leave for four years due to allegations stemming from an audit of…

Internal memo: FBI alleges Fort Myers police officer engaged in misconduct

A Fort Myers police officer that returned to work after four years on administrative leave has once again been placed on leave. Officer Jason Jackson returned to duty full-time on April 6, 2021, after a federal investigation failed to turn up…

Fort Myers police Officer Jason Jackson back on leave

If there was ever a lesson in why you should read your insurance statements: this is it. Mary Godfrey said she is very diligent about reviewing all of her explanation of benefits summaries from Florida Blue, and in 2018 something jumped off the page.…

Woman’s health insurance paid another person’s bills for three years

The mother of a man murdered on Mother’s Day morning on one of Southwest Florida’s busiest bridges said her son was killed as a direct result of his name showing up in documents related to a 2016 mass shooting. Jadwin “JC” Carrion was found shot to…

Mother says her son’s murder was retaliation

The WINK News investigative team connected the dots between a recent murder on the Midpoint Bridge in Cape Coral to the 2016 Club Blue shooting in Fort Myers. Just after midnight Saturday, May 10, Jadwin Lebronze Carrion, 24, was shot and killed on…

Man slain on Midpoint Bridge was a 2016 Club Blu shooting target

Florida made headlines around the nation and world for mandating that schools provide in-person instruction during the middle of a pandemic. At a press conference outside Jacksonville Thursday, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Education Secretary Richard…

Did reopening schools impact COVID-19 cases spread among kids?

Gasoline and toilet paper aren’t the only things that have been in short supply this year … Prescription drug shortages continue to plague people who rely on those drugs to live a normal, healthy life. One man we spoke to said he couldn’t get his…

Plagued by drug shortages? There’s an online tool for that

Since March, millions of people have gone to the Healthcare.gov exchange to take advantage of expanded government subsidies during a special enrollment period opened up to help during the pandemic. When the American Rescue Plan (ARPA) passed it did…

Is the Healthcare.gov marketplace finally “affordable?”

Insuring your home against a hurricane is more expensive than ever. We look into what you can do to make sure you have enough coverage for a worst-case scenario and save some money on your policy. Summertime in Southwest Florida just isn’t the same…

Make sure your home is insured before hurricane season

He’s gone by the names Alex Debel and Simon Storm, but his real name is Robert Kuehn, and he’s probably the last person who saw Laura Howard alive. Howard’s decomposed body was discovered inside her Moreno Avenue home May 5, 2013. In the months…

Chameleon con man wanted in Fort Myers murder “off the grid” since 2013

Recently released documents by the Fort Myers Police Department show allegations of police misconduct uncovered during an audit in 2017. The documents are two appendices part of an audit by the Freeh Group International Solutions that found alleged…

Fort Myers police releases part of redacted Freeh Group appendices

Fort Myers Police Department released more documentation to WINK News from the Freeh report Monday. The City of Fort Myers paid Freeh Group International Solutions to conduct a needs assessment of FMPD back in 2016. DOCUMENT: Redacted Free report…

FMPD shares Freeh report details related to drug, murder investigations

Fort Myers police Chief Derrick Diggs wants the top police job in Columbus, Ohio. According to his resume, he’s selling himself as someone who builds trust and transparency while also improving community engagement with the police. But his track…

Fort Myers resident critical of Chief Diggs warns Columbus mayor of transparency issues

Redacted portions of an audit of the Fort Myers Police Department are under review for release, according to the agency’s inspector general. FMPD Inspector General Donald Oswald told Fort Myers City Council members Monday they are consulting with…

Secret Fort Myers police documents could be released after 4 years

In March 2020, before the world completely changed, Sandy Germain and her husband Joe were at Daytona Bike Week. When they started coming down with cold and flu symptoms, the COVID-19 virus had started to spread in Florida. They returned home to…

Going for a COVID test cost woman $1,200

After four years on paid administrative leave, an officer with Fort Myers Police Department is ready to get back on the job. Jason Jackson is the last of four officers on leave amid a federal investigation into misconduct at the agency that began in…

Officer wants back on job after feds decline criminal charges

A brand new report from Smart Growth America ranked Florida as the most dangerous state in the United States for pedestrians and cyclists. The 2021 Dangerous by Design Survey ranks the Cape Coral-Fort Myers metropolitan area as the 11th most…

Florida ‘most dangerous’ state in nation for pedestrians

More people died walking down the street last year in Lee County than riding motorcycles. Among the 22 pedestrian lives lost: a 15-year-old who loved the outdoors and aspired to be a mechanic. Shane MacDonald died in early December while hanging out…

Deadly by Design? Why so many people are hit by cars in Lee County

At least 45 Australian Defence Force personnel died from suicide after training to deal with being captured, interrogated and tortured, an inquiry has been told. But the force is yet to investigate whether the training had been a direct trigger for…

Soldiers who agreed to strip naked as part of training course are among those who died by suicide

A former soldier who was left wheelchair bound due to spinal and PTSD injuries has told an inquiry her desperate battle to get support from veteran's affairs was so traumatising it felt like she never left the battlefield.

Ex-soldier slams unhelpful veterans' body

Home/News/National Ex-soldier slams unhelpful veterans' body FacebookTwitterWhatsappEmail An ex-soldier says her fight with veteran's affairs felt like she never left the battlefield. (Sharon Smith/AAP PHOTOS) A former soldier who was left wheelchair…

Home/Latest News Ex-soldier slams unhelpful veterans' body FacebookTwitterWhatsappEmail An ex-soldier says her fight with veteran's affairs felt like she never left the battlefield. (Sharon Smith/AAP PHOTOS) A former soldier who was left wheelchair…

A former soldier who was left wheelchair bound due to spinal and PTSD injuries has told an inquiry her desperate battle to get support from veteran's affairs was so traumatising it felt like she never left the battlefield. "I swear their (Department…

The sixth-grade boy who raised his hand was wiry and small. “People at my school make racist jokes,” he said, when I called on him. His voice had yet to change. “How do I get them to stop?” I was sitting on a high school stage in Piedmont, Calif.,…

How Do You Respond to a Young Person Upset by Racist Jokes at School?

Late one night in October 2015, North Dakota prisons chief Leann Bertsch met Karianne Jackson, one of her deputies, for a drink in a hotel bar in Oslo, Norway. They had just spent an exhausting day touring Halden, the maximum-security facility “the…

North Dakota’s Norway Experiment

Earlier this summer, Melisa Pfohl, an elementary school principal in Albany, Calif., was sitting cross-legged on a friend’s couch drinking coffee and scrolling through the emails that had accumulated while she was on a brief, end-of-the-school-year…

The Instagram Account That Shattered a California High School

Fight disinformation: for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Not long ago, I was one of 22 authors honored at a fundraising dinner for my local library. It was a swanky affair, with a multicourse meal, a pair of…

Authors Like Me Are Fighting the Book-Ban Zealots. We Need Help.

During my three decades as an environmental reporter, I got used to people being upset by what I wrote. My critics included fossil fuel and chemical companies, real estate developers, the timber industry, a vast array of politicians, and the 300 or…

Don’t Say Gay. Or Climate Change.

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James Morgan woke up shortly before 4 on the morning of April 19, 2018, and sat on the edge of his bunk, trying to force himself to eat a doughnut. A wiry man with a shaved head, a neat mustache and an eager…

Can You Talk Your Way Out of a Life Sentence?

In “Afterlife,” even privilege can’t shield a Dominican-American widow from the immigrant’s plight.

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ROUGHLY EVERY 45 MINUTES, someone calls the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner to report a death. Tucked into an unremarkable taupe stucco building at the edge of downtown Phoenix, the office investigates the cause of death for…

Can Phoenix Remain Habitable?

The disruptive environmental promise of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft is to make private-car ownership a thing of the past. Why pay to own and maintain a car if you can simply summon a ride—maybe a self-driving one!—from your phone…

Uber and Lyft Could Free Us From Cars—Or Kill Public Transit

UPDATE: On December 6, 2018, the Trump administration followed through on its effort to open millions of acres of sage-grouse habitat to oil and gas drilling and other development. The Interior Department plan reduces the 10.7 million acres of sage…

The Trump Administration Throws the Greater Sage-Grouse Under the Bus

Last October, shortly before the election, I came across a startling photo from Oakland, California, circa 1969. Two men stood side by side: a black guy in a beret and leather jacket and a white guy in a denim vest emblazoned with the Confederate…

You Won’t Change Your Cranky Conservative Uncle in One Dinner Conversation

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Late one night in October 2015, North Dakota prisons chief Leann Bertsch met Karianne Jackson, one of her deputies, for a drink in a hotel bar in Oslo, Norway. They had just spent an exhausting…

LAST NOVEMBER, DON AMON was about to sit down to a dinner of his wife's famous chicken and noodles when he heard a loud bang.
"It was like an explosion," says Amon, the chair of the board of commissioners for the town of Cushing, Oklahoma. "It was…

Oil Drilling Is—Literally!—Shaking Up Oklahoma

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One rule of Nipton living is that you never try to outshout the train. The noise might not seem so deafening closer to civilization, but in this Mojave Desert town, 60 miles south of Las Vegas, silence…

You Could Own This Sustainable 'Ghost Town' in the Mojave Desert

When Scott Bauer, a senior scientist supervisor with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, wants people to understand the environmental implications of the state's marijuana industry, he gets them high—about 6,000 feet high. Through the…

The Legal Marijuana Industry Needs to Be Regulated

Why we can’t seem to take the time to make the time for change.
Last month, as sociologist Christine Carter traversed the holiday party circuit, she found that most of her conversations started the same way. “You must be so busy,” people said. After…

Going Out of Busyness

When Congress created the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in 2005, corn ethanol was touted as gold-hued liquid happiness that would reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, support Midwestern farmers, cut fuel prices, and slash greenhouse gas emissions.…

Are We Stuck with Corn Ethanol Forever? (Big Ag Would Like Us to Think So.)

Viewed from a satellite, West Virginia's mountaintop-removal mines are ash-gray scabs surrounded by the deep green of Appalachia's hardwood forests. At ground level, the vast mining sites exhale clouds of asthma-inducing coal dust and poison…

Coal-Country Scam

 Shannon Wright One afternoon last fall, I found myself reading my picture book The Sea Serpent and Me to a group of schoolchildren in the island nation of Grenada. The story is about a little girl who befriends a tiny serpent…

The Uncomfortable Truth About Children’s Books

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When President Barack Obama and EPA administrator Gina McCarthy released the final regulations for the Clean Power Plan in August 2015, it was a defining moment in the fight against climate change. The plan established…

Rigging the system to keep us using dirty energy forever

The number of people testing positive for COVID-19 each week has tripled here since Thanksgiving, and the area’s oldest residents make up 43 percent of those getting sick enough to seek medical attention. Thanksgiving week, only 42 positive cases, an…

COVID-19 cases soar here since Thanksgiving

As national reports show Steward Health Care’s network of hospitals deeply in arrears on rent, public records show Sebastian River Medical Center several months behind in bills for essential utility services. The hospital’s utility bills are public…

Sebastian River Medical Center $75K in arrears on utility bills

Hope is waning for residents waiting to get sand placed on Indian River Shores’ dunes ahead of the unknowns of the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season, but town officials are doing everything in their power to make it happen. The town hired its own…

Shores still pushing for beach replenishment

The trial of Summerplace resident Susan Harvey for DUI and leaving the scene of a crash in which her car ran down two elderly Indian River Shores residents had been scheduled to begin this week. But instead of jury selection Monday, the 74-year-old…

New charge for island woman in parade crash

A Florida House of Representatives subcommittee wants voters to decide – starting in November 2026, and every 10 years after that – whether certain types of local entities like the Indian River County Hospital District and the local mosquito control…

Bill would place Hospital District under microscope

Hundreds of local Medicare Advantage policyholders who were at risk of being without their psychiatric medications in 2024 got an early Christmas present this month when Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital worked out a solution through its…

Cleveland Clinic’s expanded services fill void for older, underinsured psychiatric patients

Richard M. “Dick” Haverland, known for his sharp mind and even sharper pencil during his nearly eight years on the Indian River Shores Town Council, passed away Dec. 9 at the age of 82 at his summer home in Little Compton, R.I. A graduate of both…

Dick Haverland remembered as difference maker

The Mideast war touched Vero early on Thanksgiving Day when an Israeli-made component that monitors and adjusts odor at the municipal wastewater treatment plant was attacked remotely by hackers in Iran. Water-sewer Utility Director Rob Bolton told…

Hackers in Iran attack computer at Vero Utilities

The Visiting Nurse Association of the Treasure Coast has entered into an agreement to buy the land under the VNA Hospice House, plus acreage for expansion, for $3.8 million, with a closing expected early in 2024. For decades, VNA had leased the…

VNA purchasing Hospice campus next to hospital

With closure of the University of Florida Center for Psychiatry and Addiction in Vero Beach only four weeks away, several hundred senior citizens might find themselves without care and without their needed medications if the Indian River County…

Hospital District unraveling snags in seniors’ care

Beginning in January, Indian River Shores residents and anyone else who is interested will be able to watch all the town meetings, livestreamed on the internet on the town’s YouTube channel. While Indian River County, City of Vero Beach, the City of…

Shores town meetings to be live on internet in January

Since the Florida Department of Health was required to resume publishing detailed, retroactive COVID-19 statistics last month as part of a legal settlement, we once again have timely Indian River County case data showing that from September to…

Retroactive stats show decline in new COVID cases here

The trial of Summerplace resident Susan Harvey, charged with driving while under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident after her car struck two elderly pedestrians leaving the 2021 Ocean Drive Christmas Parade, has been postponed until…

Island DUI hit-and-run trial postponed

Now that Florida City Gas has begun running natural gas pipes to homes within the island’s gated communities, property owners will soon face hook-up decisions that include converting appliances and safely mothballing underground propane tanks that…

For home owners, arrival of natural gas brings decisions

News Analysis When the Vero Beach Canvassing Board makes election results official, and Taylor Dingle and John Cotugno get sworn-in to begin their two-year terms, the next thing likely to happen is a potentially ugly scramble between Cotugno and John…

Who will Council choose as next Vero Beach mayor?

The island’s largely retired, white-collar population places a high demand on the rest of the community for all kinds of qualified skilled trades workers, so when Indian River State College needed capital to build a state-of-the-art workforce…

Island residents invest generously in skilled trades education

The Leapfrog twice-yearly hospital safety grades were released on Monday and none of the three local hospitals most frequently used by island residents scored the highest “A” ranking this time. Both Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital in Vero…

Safety grades: The 3 area hospitals all awarded a ‘B’

The Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine is negotiating with the Indian River County Hospital District for space to establish a medical school campus in Vero Beach and train medical students at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital. The…

Medical school in talks to have campus in Vero

Indian River Shores officials are getting frustrated with what they see as Vero’s lack of transparency about how much water-sewer rates will rise from mounting costs of the city’s planned wastewater treatment plant construction project. A joint…

Shores officials slam utilities meeting as ‘light on substance’

Staffing a major problem; Hundreds of patients being referred to other providers After 15 years of compassionately serving the mental health needs of Vero Beach residents young and old, the doctors of the University of Florida Health Center for…

UF Health outpatient mental health clinic in Vero to close

Livestreaming “Diablo IV” we understand, but getting canned from your job? A recent viral storm occurred when Brittany Pietsch, a former account exec at Cloudflare, recorded her firing, during which no one involved could explain how she failed to…

Should you livestream your layoff?

Give people new tech and they’ll find a way to be creepy with it. Case in point: A new House bill — the No AI Fake Replicas and Unauthorized Duplications (FRAUD) Act — points to several instances of AI nonsense, including: Bogus songs replicating…

The government vs. AI deepfakes

~70%: Percentage of people who could correctly guess how a chicken was feeling based on its cluck, regardless of how much time they’d spent among chickens previously, per an Australian study. Chickens communicate via body language and sounds, which…

Digits: Chicken talk, an aggressive Starbucks push, a new buzz phrase, and more

It’s not just the UK The global gig economy has soared over the past several years, and governments are taking notice. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an international economic group with 38 member countries,…

Governments want to tax your Poshmark sales

Selling that sweater you never liked or the pants you outgrew may not seem like the sort of thing your country’s coffers would care about, but for some, the taxman cometh. The UK is cracking down on platforms like Vinted, Depop, and others, requiring…

Did you find yourself alone under the mistletoe this holiday season? You’re in luck, because this Sunday is apparently the best time to find a date online. Sunday is usually a busier day on dating apps than Friday or Saturday, per Fortune, when…

Dating Sunday, when singles get swiping

Why? People tend to spend the holidays wrapped up with family and friends — then, a kissless New Year’s countdown reminds them of how single they are. Plus, many people make being more social or finding a partner a New Year’s resolution. All this…

Corporate life has changed significantly since the pandemic, with a greater push for remote work, flexibility, and work-life balance. Unless you’re Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah, who recently sent employees a memo asking them to not “shy away” from long…

Its 2024, and CEOs and employees are back at it again

~3.5k: Suspects arrested during Haechi IV, a six-month Interpol operation targeting cybercrimes including voice phishing, romance scams, and ecommerce fraud. Interpol reclaimed $300m in assets across 34 countries and blocked 82k+ suspicious bank…

Digits: A $300m cybercrime bust, Tesla’s crashing dummies, and more newsy numbers

~11k: How many washboards the Columbus Washboard Co. still sells annually, down from 1m+ in the 1940s. Sales jumped 57% in 2020 during the pandemic, but it’s not all about doing laundry — percussionists make up ~40% of sales. $1.3B+: How much Andrew…

Digits of 2023: Our fave weird numbers from around the web

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) suffered a courtesy of SiegedSec, who describe themselves as a group of “gay furry hackers.” INL is one of the US’s largest nuclear labs, but the hackers demanded it pivot and work on creating cat-human hybrids —…

The most salacious stories of 2023

Let’s look back at the year’s juiciest stories, with battles playing out in arenas of all kinds — boardrooms, courtrooms, and courts of public opinion. … just not in cage matches. Please, anything but a cage match. A Frank conversation FTX founder…

26k+: The number of complaints customers filed against US airlines in the first five months of 2023, up 100%+ YoY. Airlines and air traffic control centers continue to face staffing shortages, an issue that arose amid the pandemic. For those of you…

Digits: A novel queen, a secret bunker, airline hassles, and more

In a world of constantly busted apps with unwieldy UX, the Wikimedia Foundation excels with Wikipedia, a simple trove of information for any question you might have. But the greater internet is abuzz with another question, per Business Insider: Do…

Are Wikimedia’s exec salaries normal?

In Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, a nuclear war eliminates most of the world’s animals, leaving authentic pets to only the wealthiest humans. Everyone else finds companionship among robot pets; protagonist Rick Deckard ends up…

Can robots help cure loneliness?

Sometimes an idea is bad, sometimes it’s just too soon. Founded in 1998 by Swedes Ernst Malmsten and Kajsa Leander — who’d sold their online book retailer, Bokus.com, for a reported eight figures — Boo.com was meant to be an online retailer for chic…

Miss Boo, a fashionista ahead of her time

Hey, remember August 2022, when a16z gave its biggest check — for $350m — to Adam Neumann to create Flow, an apartment startup? It was a controversial move, considering Neumann’s failure as CEO of the now-bankrupt WeWork. But Flow’s first building is…

Adam Neumann’s apartment startup is here

Kars4Kids is perhaps best known for its terrible jingle, spoofed by the likes of “Family Guy” and “The Good Place.” But the New Jersey-based charity is also involved in a weird trademark battle with Texas-based America Can! Cars for Kids, per The…