Where We Go Next

Chris Smith and Jack De Sena (aka Chris & Jack) have been friends for ages and use their natural chemistry to make high-quality, high-concept sketch comedy for their eponymous Youtube channel. They'v…

Imagine it's 2017. You've been given the task of running a presidential campaign for 2020. Your candidate has no previous political experience and zero name recognition with the public. You must get …

The internet provided a way for creatives around the world to share their talents with all of us. Forming alongside these new creators were vibrant, dedicated communities hungry for hyper-specialized…

When was the last time you got a little bit wild? Stayed out later than you should have, drank a bit too much, made out with an absolute stranger or did a ton of illicit drugs and trespassed on feder…

Have you ever wondered why the decisions you make keep leaving you unfulfilled? How you'll doggedly pursue something - a career, a relationship, some Big Life Goal - and once you've finally got it, y…

"Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." That works well enough as a piece of proverbial wisdom, but global seafood consumption today is roughly 160 million tons per year. So ensuring …

An artist's work - autobiographical or not - is a reflection of where they are in their life at any given moment. And so over time the collection becomes a kind of map, that traces the twists and cur…

What if you could suddenly understand every language on earth? Identify any object or living thing around you with nothing but a glance? See exactly how a new outfit might look on your body before tr…

The world of comics is as vast as it is diverse. From colorful, fanciful stories geared toward children to gritty, realistic artwork crafted for more a mature crowd, if it can be drawn, there's an au…

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More than 1 in 3 Americans - roughly 38% - are having difficulty meeting their basic needs each month. You may be one of them, or know someone who is. Or you don't know, because they're hiding it fro…

What does it mean to be "different"? Who decided on the definition?  Who drew the boundaries around "normal"? Author and founder of The Neurodiversity Project Jenara Nerenberg explores where and why …

History is only a story. Events happen. People exist. But how and why we talk about them and what we decide to study is a matter of choice. It's completely up to us. And that's the story. Dr. Anika P…

How exactly am I able to communicate with you? We're not in the same room - we're likely not even in the same state. And if my listener stats are accurate - 30% of you reading this right now live in …

How do you process your pain? We all experience traumas - big and small - over the course of our lives. And we all deal with them differently. A painful event can often feel like a physical location …

When we think of news reporting, what may immediately come to mind is the highly produced, frequently editorialized content that we consume via our mainstream media. But the on-the-ground footage con…

We all possess multiple identities. You are both a brother and a son. A daughter and a mother. Chinese, and American, and Asian. Gay, and Polyamorous. The combinations are nearly endless. And these i…

Can you remember the first book that left a lasting impact on you? That widened how you saw the world, made you curious about a new frontier of knowledge, or expanded the very boundaries of your mind…

Much of what we perceive is subjective. When you and I look at a text, a film, a painting - we carry the weight of our experiences with us into that encounter. So what happens when we look at the sam…

Imagine you're in a courtroom. You've been charged with a crime and the verdict has now been decided by the jury: "Guilty." The judge offers you two choices: Go to prison for five years, or immediate…