What Love Will Look Like In The Future, According To These 9 Movies
Far gone are the days of the love letter. Going fast: the well-composed email. Say goodbye, it seems, to the politely returned text message (I’ve ghosted and been ghosted; what single person hasn’t at...
View ArticleCheck Out Jupiter's Intense Northern Lights
Last week, NASA's Juno spacecraft achieved a mission more than five years in the making when it entered Jupiter's orbit. Over the course of the next 20 months, Juno will attempt to learn as much as it...
View ArticleThese Are The Most Common Reasons For Frequent Peeing
Illustrated by Mary Galloway.This article was originally published on April 12, 2016.As normal as it is to pee, anxiety about passing the same coworkers several times per day, every day on your way to...
View ArticleWhite Girl Director Elizabeth Wood On Why Her Debut Feature Is So Subversive
Photo: Courtesy of Elizabeth Wood.Elizabeth Wood says that White Girl, her first feature, is a realistic coming-of-age movie that's not without romance. The movie (see the NSFW trailer here) is flooded...
View ArticleDo You Know About 'Personal Jewellery?'
Photographed by Mayan Toledano.For the past few years, you couldn't read a fashion magazine without seeing styling advice that included, "and top it off with a piece of statement jewellery!" Bib...
View ArticleThe Wedding Day: Yoko Ono And John Lennon
Photo: Getty Images. WHEN: 20th March 1969.WHERE: The British Consulate Office, Gibraltar.WHAT HAPPENED: Having met and fallen in love in November 1966 (while John was still married to his first wife...
View ArticleThis Japanese Pop Star Is Giving Us A Sugar High
J Pop: Japanese pop music. Despite a few minor attempts to break through into the Western consciousness over the last decade, the genre hasn't managed to get much of a footing in the U.S. or UK charts....
View ArticleIs It OK To Kiss Your Child On The Lips?
Photo: @victoriabeckhamTrolls will get angry over anything on social media these days. Even, it seems, a mother showing love for her five-year-old daughter on her birthday.Victoria Beckham faced...
View ArticleCould This Be The Labour Party's New Leader?
Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images.Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve all watched scenes unfolding at Westminster that the writers of House of Cards might have rejected for being too implausible. And, as...
View ArticleOver-40s Having More Babies Than Under-20s For First Time In 70 Years
Photo: Erin Yamagata.Women aged 20 and under are having fewer babies than women over 40 for the first time in nearly 70 years, according to new data. The last time over-40s had more babies was in 1947...
View ArticleWhat Is "Rational Fitness"& Why Should You Try It?
About four years ago, I found myself speed-walking across my neighbourhood at 6:30 a.m., bleary and barely awake, but nonetheless frazzled. I had to get to yoga before 6:55 a.m., or else the door would...
View Article6 Snacks In A Jar That Will Become Your New Obsession
Every day at around 3 p.m., we need a snack. And given that we're always trying to save money on lunch, breakfast, and well, just about everything else in our lives, we recently came to the...
View ArticleBeyoncé & Rihanna Explain What Gets You Killed As A Black American
It's been a volatile month in America. Innocent lives have been lost, and all seems bleak. You know that, I know that, and celebrities know that. So, with the help of Mic, 25 celebrities — including...
View ArticleWatch: R29 Dialogue: Race In America & Tell Us What You Think
Photo: WOLFRAM KASTL/AFP/Getty Images.Update: Watch the full discussion below. Thanks to everyone who joined us in person and online.This story was originally published on July 13, 2016.Over the past...
View ArticleThe Queen Is Hiring A Housekeeper — But What About The Pay?
Statistically speaking, it's pretty hard to become a princess if you aren't already one. You'll have to bag yourself a single royal to get the title. But if you still have palace dreams, there is a...
View Article8 Essential Breast-Feeding Tips For New Mums
Illustrated by: Aimee Sy.The benefits of breast-feeding for both mums and babies are hard to overstate: Research suggests breast-fed infants will go on to have lower risks of developing health...
View ArticleThis French Teen Sparked Another Body-Hair Debate
Photographed by Olivia Locher. A photo posted by ☆ ☆ ☆ (@adelelabo) on Jul 11, 2016 at 5:39am PDT "Evoie moi tes poils #LesPrincessesOntDesPoils" reads a photo posted by French teen Adele Labo on...
View ArticleYoung Thug Made A Hugely Important Statement About Gender With This Photo
Young Thug has been a rap pioneer for about as long as he’s been rapping. And now he’s appearing in a gender-bending Calvin Klein ad that speaks volumes about how hip-hop has left its homophobic past...
View ArticleThe Best Beauty Brands For Darker Skin Tones
Considering the current racial regression – or call it stagnation – occurring around the world, it is perhaps unsurprising that black and Asian women are still struggling to find makeup products that...
View ArticleThe Smoking Diaries: A Journey To Quitting
Artwork by Anna Jay.I certainly remember the first cigarette I ever had but it’s harder to recall the first I ever loved. That’s the strange thing about smoking: like in a cheesy rom-com, it’s...
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