A blog, basically. Updated every Friday.
Welcome to a new miniseries within the Friday Know-It-All that we’re calling “Return to the Computer Lab.” This will be a semi-regular series in which our editorial staff explore the beloved computer games of our childhoods. (Are you surprised to learn many of us spent a lot of time on the computer?) Editor Ruby is up first to tell you all about what it was like to play computer games in the 1990s.
The idea of “fusion cuisine” is a controversial one, as with any conversation about food and authenticity. What I’m interested in talking about today isn’t your southwestern eggrolls of the world, but the cross-cultural foods that are too old for us to think of them as fusion, or very cool food combinations that aren’t quite mainstream enough in the U.S. for a trivia question.
Before masked mothers and sons started tormenting campers, there was fear surrounding the number 13 in combination with Fridays. The fear of the number 13 even has a name: triskaidekaphobia. Why is this number and day so haunting to us? Brand Engagement Director Brianna here to talk to you about the history and lore behind this supposedly unlucky day.
