“‘Pethood’ is a specific lens, one that reveals more about us than it does about the inner lives of the animals we have domesticated.”
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Burgling the Rich, a Cat’s Life Lessons, and Our Top 5
“I learned to adore the way he sidled against me and to hate his momentary affection, just as he learned to detach from me in weariness and depend on me in hunger. Days with him were a quick education in a cat’s existence.” I once spent a year shadowing a musician I loved, whose body […]
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Are These Dudes the Future of News?
“Channel 5 has gone from upstart YouTube channel to undeniably influential reporting powerhouse. And they’re just getting started.”
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Best of 2025: The Most Popular Editors’ Picks of the Year
These audience hits were the most-viewed picks on our site in 2025.
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A Trip to Twin Peaks and the Week’s Top 5
“I’d taken for granted how strange his work is—in the defiantly non-naturalistic performances he elicits from his actors and the surreal sheen of his stories and characters—until I started trying to explain the plot of Twin Peaks to Riley on our drive to Washington.” This week, we pay homage to director David Lynch, with Katherine […]
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My Quest to Make My Dog Internet Famous
“When I spoke with several people behind some of Canada’s most influential dogs, agents and managers for pet influencers, and even researchers on canine-influencer culture, I began to understand. Whether they’re couch potatoes partnering with your favourite snack-food company or high-falutin divas posing beside expensive cars and decked out in the latest couture, pet celebrities […]
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Why Can’t We Be Friends
“Podcasts and other forms of ‘parasocial’ media reframe friendship as monetized self-care.
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What Are Memories, Anyway?
The brain is a funny thing. You give it the right cues of depth and immersion, and something that would otherwise be a memory of an image becomes a memory of an experience.
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How Danhausen Became Professional Wrestling’s Strangest Star
“What’s the best way for a not-particularly-athletic barista-slash-wrestling geek to go pro? Act really weird.”
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The Unbearable Lightness of BuzzFeed
“BuzzFeed built a digital media empire in part by aggregating viral content from social media. A decade later, what’s next?”
