The day after Damar Hamlin collapsed during what began as a normal game on Monday Night Football, the radio host Garrett Bush was frustrated.Bush had watched as other commentators offered “thoughts and prayers” and speculated about when the game would be rescheduled. But all that seemed inconsequential to Bush. Here was a young man, he thought, who may never play football again. Beyond Hamlin’s health and well-being, there were more quotidian reasons to worry too: Hamlin hadn’t played long enough for his NFL pension to vest, and Bush wondered about his financial future—whether, should he be permanently disabled, Hamlin’s family would be able to afford a life’s worth of medical bills.In a six-minute clip that has now been viewed more...
Apologies: rumor has it you’re already up to your ears in books to read in 2023. But you can’t spend all your time reading. So for the evenings you’d rather be mowing down the popcorn with a friend or Insert-Streaming-Service-and-Chilling at home, here are some of 2023’s most exciting literary movies and tv shows—both confirmed and rumored. The Lying Life of Adults Netflix, January 4 Based on: Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults (2019) Ferrante fans are luckier than most: every adaptation of her work so far has been great—and that includes this latest effort, in which a teenager who, feeling herself a misfit, seeks out the family outcast as a way of seeking out herself. “Before leaving home, my...
The Struggle is Real Do you have any projects in your house that are low priority when it comes to investing money into them, but they are a high priority to address with SOME type of solution as they are connected to your daily function? Let me introduce you to the dilemma in my mudroom closet. Small Closet, Big Job For the categories housed in this closet, you think I’d need a mudroom 4x this size. I’ve thought about tearing the wall down and getting built-in hallway storage. I’ve thought about investing in solid wood custom shelving. However, I have other things that hold a higher priority in my home, so I’ve settled on free standing cube units (anchored to...
From tableware to clothing, this roundup spotlights 11 everyday designs rethought by designers to maximise accessibility and inclusivity. Accessible design is a term used to describe products and places that have been created especially to be more inclusive for people with disabilities. It is becoming increasingly mainstream in the design world, as demonstrated by the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this month where it was one of the year's biggest trends. Among the accessible products unveiled at this year's CES was an accessible gaming controller by Sony, which features in this roundup alongside 10 other projects that make everyday designs more easily usable by people with disabilities. Here are 10 accessible designs for the everyday: Project Leonardo by Sony Project...
As well as everything else - There is no celebration of No Pants Subway Ride Day once again this year, in NYC - "The No Pants Subway Ride is not happening in New York in 2023," reads a message on the initiative's official website. "After 19 years of producing the event, we've decided to take a break (sadly the pandemic ruined our plans of making it 20 years in a row!)." Should you wish to ride the subway sans pants, you are on your own. You can celebrate National Hat Day today though. John Etherington, a London haberdasher stepped out of his shop on the Strand, on this date in 1797, wearing a new hat of his own design. His...
