Jonquilyn Hill

Americans are in serious debt. Together, we owe nearly $1.3 trillion in credit card debt alone; our average balance is around $6,500 each. Owing that much can be scary, not to mention overwhelming....

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If you watched the Super Bowl, you might have noticed that a lot of the ads were for weight-loss drugs. Even Serena Williams was selling them. That’s because demand for GLP-1s has skyrocketed over ...

Across much of the United States, it’s downright dreary outside. It’s cold, the snow has gone from beautiful and pristine to dirty and crusted over, and the motivation to get outside is low. A 2024...

It’s been just over a week since TikTok — in the United States — transferred into the hands of new owners. And it’s been a mess ever since. At the government’s urging, TikTok’s parent company ByteD...

The internet is an archive of so many different versions of ourselves. If you’re Gen Z or a millennial, there’s a good chance you preserved almost every stage of your life online: old fandoms, old ...

Brain rot is everywhere. Our feeds are filled with slop, misinformation is ubiquitous, and AI is increasingly doing our thinking for us.  And the crisis goes even deeper: Math and reading scores ar...

Heated Rivalry, the Canadian series streaming on HBO Max based on the bestselling romance novels by Rachel Reid, has taken over group chats, algorithms, and brains. For those who have not watched, ...

If this cold and flu season seem especially sneezy-coughy-fevery to you, it is not your imagination. Flu is surging in 45 states and outpatient doctor visits for flu-like symptoms are the highest t...

If you feel like the internet is full of slop and rage bait these days, you aren’t alone.  Anger is fueling the internet so much that Oxford decided to make rage bait the word of 2025. But if you w...

Our brains have a way of playing tricks on us — like that ringing in our ears known as tinnitus. It’s a sound in your head, created to make up for hearing loss. And that’s not the only way minds cr...

When it comes to artificial intelligence, few fears loom larger than the idea of robots coming to take our jobs. But if you talk to the AI evangelists among us, that could be a good thing. Not in t...

Introvert. Extrovert. Type A. Type 3. A Samantha. These days, it seems, there is an ever-expanding list of terms and frameworks for describing our personalities. But what we see in ourselves, and w...

When it comes to the holidays, we all have different traditions. But there does seem to be one commonality when it comes to Thanksgiving: feeling absolutely terrible after working your way through ...

Thanksgiving didn’t happen the way a lot of us probably have learned it did back in elementary school. Kindergarteners in problematic construction paper headdresses, playacting with fifth graders i...