Author: Kintsugi

By Sarra Sedghi  The grocery store rotisserie chicken is queen in terms of convenience. The cooked bird is cheaper than a whole raw chicken and elevates the simplest meals. Most importantly, it gets the job done. Maybe it’ll feed your family. Maybe you’ll eat the entire thing yourself, sans silverware, over a period of days. Either…

Read More We Tried Rotisserie Chickens From 6 Grocery Stores—Here’s Our Favorite

By Iman Ghosh The American population is a unique mosaic of cultures—and almost 40% of people identify as racial or ethnic minorities today. In this treemap, we use data for 2019 from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which bases its analysis on the latest American Community Survey (ACS) data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Then we break down the same…

Read More Visualizing the U.S. Population by Race

What is sedition? According to the Cambridge Dictionary, sedition is “language or behaviour that is intended to persuade other people to oppose their government”. While Donald Trump currently heads the US administration, his leadership will not last much longer. When Mr Trump is no longer in office, any sign of encouraging his supporters to oppose…

Read More Has the President Committed Treason?

No amount of rationalizing can change the fact that the majority of the Republican Party is advocating for the overthrow of an American election. JANUARY 4, 2021 Tom Nichols Author of Our Own Worst Enemy “We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote in the opening of his 1962 novel, Mother Night, “and so we must be…

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By Gianluca Russo Dec. 15, 2020 The art of finding the perfect fit clearly is costly, from collecting data to the process of hiring fit models. As Chan explains, there is so much that goes into high-quality clothing that is often not discussed, from materials to labor to craftsmanship. While every plus-size body is different and…

Read More Plus-Size Clothing Should Fit Women’s Bodies, So Why Is That So Often Not The Case?

Global Entry Application and Interview: How Not to Screw It Up By now, you’ve learned all the differences between Global Entry and TSA PreCheck, and are ready to bite the bullet and commit to one. Since Global Entry includes TSA PreCheck—and is only $15 more than PreCheck—you decide to go with it. Smart move. But now you’ve actually…

Read More Thinking About Post-Covid Travel?

We see over and over that we make resolutions at the start of the new year. Resolutions that are rarely kept, but sound good when we are struggling with them. I have goals. Here are mine for 2021. Remain financially stable and increase my savings. Read about financial goals HERE. Spend more time with family and…

Read More What are Your Goals for 2021?

At the end of the year, people spend a lot of time writing lists of “the best of” so I am thinking about my “best of” list. Cooking has kept me sane when I wanted to be crazy, well, not wanted but certainly felt crazy. Here is a list of some of our favorite cookbooks…

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BY KRISTIN ROMEY PHOTOGRAPHS BY SIMON NORFOLK (This is why I subscribe to Nat Geo! This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.) Scholars who study Jesus divide into two opposing camps separated by a very bright line: those who believe the wonder-working Jesus of the Gospels is the real Jesus, and those who think the real Jesus—the…

Read More Who was the real Jesus? Here’s what archaeology tells us.