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In case you’re not following Donald Trump on Twitter (who could blame you?), he recently tweeted that he’s going to announce “THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR” next week. We’re not kidding. Here’s the tweet: I will be announcing THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR on Monday […]
Iceland started the year with a solid step towards closing the gender wage gap by making it illegal for companies to pay men more than women for the same work. The country has become the first in the world to legalize equal pay. The new law which came into effect on January 1 states that companies […]
More than 300 women in Hollywood—actresses, writers, and directors—have launched a campaign called “Time’s Up!” to combat sexual harassment in the film industry and in the workplace. The initiative was announced in a full-page advertorial printed in the New York Times. The campaign came after the many sexual allegations against men in Hollywood like Harvey […]
We’ve all made and failed to keep new year’s resolutions before. They’re so hard to keep that a lot of us have stopped having them in the first place. But in light of 2017 being over, we think it’s a good idea to revisit the practice. 2017 was, to put it simply, a maddening, emotionally-draining, […]
Kelly Marie Tran, the Vietnamese-American actress who plays Rose Tico in ‘The Last Jedi’ and the first woman of color to play a lead role in the entire franchise, has been subjected to sexist and racists comments online. Just last week, the character page for Rose on Wookiepedia, the Star Wars Wiki, was replaced with […]
Talented Pinays Rachelle Ann Go and Christine Allado are performing in the West End production of Lin Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking “Hamilton“. The musical, whose original production was in Broadway, has won a ton of awards and the London production has received nothing but rave reviews from critics since it started its run. Rachelle Ann Go […]
December isn’t just about Christmas anymore– since The Force Awakens was released in 2015, the last month of every year has also become Star Wars season for a lot of people. And right now, a few days after The Last Jedi hit cinemas around the world, the enthusiasm of fans is still at fever pitch. […]
Mark Laidre, a biologist from Dartmouth College currently working on the remote islands in the Indian Ocean, witnessed something peculiar on one of his treks. He found a coconut crab— a specie which happens to be the world’s largest land invertebrate– killing and then eating a red-footed bobby seabird. A coconut crab is a humongous […]
Facebook has announced that starting this week, they will be demoting posts by individuals or by Pages that use “engagement bait”– a tactic that goads users into interacting with likes, comments, shares, and other actions to increase their reach. The people behind Facebook has categorized thousands of posts in order to inform a machine learning […]