Saving Generation Z from the Social Media Zombie Apocalypse
By Roger Weber Poor generation Z. Amid a time of cultural tumult, today’s teens, inheritors of our future challenges, are ever our...
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What is the Metaverse?
By Roger Weber Are you a person living in a physical world? Or is your body merely an avatar navigating an artificial digital world...
Drink Like a Major Leaguer: Which Washington Nationals Have the Best Taste in Alcohol?
During the height of the COVID-19 quarantine, the Washington Nationals, their coaches, and a few ex-members got together to celebrate...
How to Plan Cities in the Age of COVID-19: Part One
By Roger Weber This will be the first part of a series in as many parts as it takes me to sort out some thoughts on how city planning can...
Can Misty Copeland Save American Ballet?
Ballet got more front page news coverage last year than it ever has in decades thanks to an embarrassing controversy involving one of the...
Which Direction do Most Airport Luggage Carousels Spin?
If you've never stopped on your way out of the airport to notice the direction the luggage carousels are spinning, you're in luck. A...
Can You Name Every City in America? Test yourself and be surprised.
With election season looming, the Presidential candidates are canvassing America, trying their best to win the hearts and minds of the...
A New Proposal for American Holidays
Holiday fatigue is real. Moving forward America could benefit from a more considered approach to which holidays we celebrate, and how...
Cultural Curiosities: The Museum of Bad Art
With a carefully curated collection of artistic mishaps, the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) may be the world's best monument to artistic...
Saudi Arabia's Cultural Literacy Crisis
Saudi Arabia is democratizing. In 2019 for the first time ever women are driving, the cinemas are open, and young people are mixing in...
The Paleo Cities of Tomorrow
Ten years removed from the Great Recession, America is gaining perspective on its impacts. Nowhere is this truer than within the urban...
Techno Fixing the Urban Zone
In 2008, when Chicago inked a deal to privatize its parking meters, a chorus of groans ensued. To say that the deal was widely panned is...