Doomscrolling, or mindlessly reading negative news online, is an unhealthy habit many unknowingly adopt. According to the Mayo Clinic, the practice is known to cause feelings of distress, such as ...
If, like me, your formative internet years took place in the mid-aughts, you’re probably familiar with a little website known as StumbleUpon. It was sort of an early predecessor to that hot new ...
On Wednesday, a New York-based app developer named Isaac Gemal debuted a new site called WikiTok, where users can vertically swipe through an endless stream of Wikipedia article stubs in a manner ...
Like all encyclopedias, online or offline, Wikipedia is absolutely chock-full of information. So much so that it can feel overwhelming if you fall down a Wikipedia rabbit hole. However, what if there ...
Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. The final round required navigating from the Wikipedia article on “Stroopwafel” to the page about “Jimmy ...
One of the joys of living in the digital age is that we have a wealth of information at our fingertips. Gone are the days of traipsing to the nearest library, or paging through an old encyclopedia, to ...