Students: The Slang Bag | TIME

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  508 words  |  Billy Koelling

Since plain American speech suffices only to describe the real world, a new vocabulary must be coined annually at colleges, where all experience has a heightened tone and ordinary superlatives falter. Life calls for adjectives that mean better than best, viler than vile, cooler than cool. The contemptibly stupid, the awesomely brilliant and the inexpressibly attractive all demand labels more vivid than last year’s. This winter’s college slang is real unreal. [Read More]

Subtitles on TV from Switched at Birth to Game of Thrones

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  662 words  |  Kelle Repass

As I was watching Tyrant, fx’s new drama about the Americanized son of a Middle Eastern dictator returning to his homeland, I noticed something strange about the characters: I could understand them. That is, all the characters–American and native-born Arabs alike–spoke nothing but English. A few years ago, this would have been unremarkable. Tyrant, though shot in Israel with many Middle Eastern actors, is made by a U.S. network for U. [Read More]

Teen Girls Get Breast Implants and Genital Plastic Surgery

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1158 words  |  Martina Birk

When Maya Bernstein, 18, first became sexually active in high school, she was nervous. How would she know what to do? “But my friends were like, ‘Oh just watch porn and you’ll learn how to do everything,” the New York City high school senior recalls. By college, a third of women and 90% of men have viewed porn, which some experts say has become a main source of sex ed for millions of American teens. [Read More]

The fascinating rites practiced by the Urhobos during funerals

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  731 words  |  Tandra Barner

When a person dies, the next thing is their burial. For the Urhobos, there are, however, lots of rites that need to be done before the person is finally laid to rest. The whole funeral usually takes three to seven days depending on the family of the person that died. One thing that is very important is that any Urhobo person who dies of natural causes and has lived a long life cannot be buried outside in an open field as the tradition says they must be buried in a house. [Read More]

The True Story Behind HBOs 'Winning Time'

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1890 words  |  Martina Birk

Warning: This story contains spoilers for Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty Sex, drugs, and basketball. HBO’s new docudrama Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, premiering March 6, is based on Jeff Pearlman’s 2014 best-seller Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. Like the book, the 10-part limited series, produced by Adam McKay, offers a no-holds-barred look at the hedonistic sports team that defined the decade of excess. [Read More]

TIME Firsts Women Leaders: Katharine Jefferts Schori

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  678 words  |  Patria Henriques

‘Engendering opposition is a sign of being effective.’ I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, spending lots of time in the mountains and the islands in Puget Sound just fascinated with the wonders of creation. I was quite convinced that I wanted to be a scientist. Having a sense of the wonder of the world around us and the great diversity and the health that diversity signals translates into human communities as well. [Read More]

Toni Morrison: 100 Women of the Year

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  318 words  |  Tandra Barner

March 5, 2020 6:40 AM EST “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” Toni Morrison spoke these words when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, becoming the first black woman so honored. Not many people can squeeze so much meaning into just a few sentences, but Morrison, an icon of storytelling, did it all the time. [Read More]

Tropical Storm Hilary Could Cause Life Threatening Flooding

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  535 words  |  Martina Birk

Tens of millions of people are under tropical storm warnings as Tropical Storm Hilary brings “life threatening to locally catastrophic” flooding to southern California and beyond, the National Weather Service said during a Sunday advisory. The storm has already impacted parts of Mexico, and is also expected to impact Arizona and Nevada. Although the storm weakened from a Category 4 hurricane to a tropical storm over the weekend, it is still expected to bring moderate to high flash flooding to communities to the north and northeast of Los Angeles, California. [Read More]

Watch Jennifer Lopez And Alex Rodriguez Do The 'Flip the Switch' TikTok Dance Challenge

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  202 words  |  Martina Birk

"Late night Tiktoks @jlo. Follow me at AROD13!!!," he captioned the adorable dance video of the couple. The 15-second clip starts with A-Rod filming J. Lo, who's wearing a gorgeous white dress, hoops, and a Gucci belt dancing with some serious genie-in-a-bottle-style gyrations to Drake's "Flip the Switch." ADVERTISEMENT Midway through, the camera cuts to a new frame where J. Lo and A-Rod have switched positionsand outfits. J. [Read More]

Watch Tems perform Essence with Wizkid and Justin Bieber at Coachella 2024

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  221 words  |  Patria Henriques

While performing the song “Essence” which Wizkid featured Justin Bieber and her on, Tems brought out both Wizkid and Bieber for the performance. Her performance at the event came just after she had teased fans about an exciting surprise on X (formerly Twitter) earlier. “Coachella! I’m too exciteddd I have a surprise tonight,” she wrote earlier on X. ADVERTISEMENT For the performance, Tems donned a black beaded dress with a halter neck. [Read More]