SPEED ROUND Archives

It might be ugly, but Comic Sans can be useful

In defense of the indefensible: Comic Sans. Nobody is entirely sure why the worldwide web suddenly came together and collectively…

How to kick your “um” habit to the curb: Verbal fillers like “um,” “ah,” or “so” are common in both…

Toshio Fukushima and his sons are the fifth- and sixth-generation in their family to run their confectionary in Tokyo where…

Two TV shows in our video queue to try this weekend: Better Call Saul (one season on Egyptian Netflix, three…

Still haven’t made plans for the Easter and Sham El Neseem long weekend? The New York Times has got your…

Lebanon’s Pablo Escobar? BBC News’ Pop Up has started to make edgy documentaries a la Vice News. One particularly interesting…

Possibly the strangest monetary phenomenon in the world: Somalia, quite possibly, has the world’s strangest monetary phenomenon, JP Konig argues…

Why do we pretend to know far more than we do? People form their opinions based largely on the information…

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