If there’s one thing grown-ups know about Gen Z, it’s that the kids love to vape. This is reflected not only by current data (more than 37% of high school seniors use flavored e-cigarettes, according to data from the National Institute of Health), but also on TikTok, an app that’s …
Read More »Charles Manson: How a Twisted Beatles Obsession Inspired Family Murders
Charles Manson had an easy explanation for why he ordered the deaths of the family of Leno LaBianca and residents at Sharon Tate’s house at the hands of his “Family”: “It’s the Beatles, the music they’re putting out,” he told the district attorney who sent him to death row. “These …
Read More »The Weaponized Comedy of Hannah Gadsby
“I am built like a brick shithouse,” Hannah Gadsby tells me over tea in a Hollywood cafe. “Solid, solid human.” She’s explaining how she survived being struck by five cars in the span of seven years. It would be a miracle for anyone else, but Gadsby, who’s been plagued by …
Read More »Why Weed Companies Are Embracing Blockchain
“Hey, look at the stock!” It was a Thursday in late September in the Colorado offices of Leafbuyer technologies, a small tech company focused on cannabis. Like most startups, it’s a little obsessed with its stock price, which it has a staffer assigned to monitor. This day, it was going …
Read More »