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On supporting science journalismIf you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism bysubscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.Kate Klein: There’s this, like, whole world underneath people’s clothing that no one talks about.Sari van Anders: Our science, in some ways..., is sort of, like, catching up with people’s existences.Meghan McDonough: I’m Meghan McDonough, and you’re…

“Anyone who knows me and my long-term boyfriend know we meet a lot of our friends online these days,” Ashley Gill says in a Dec. 21 video, showing a photo of her and her friend and collaborator, Grant Gibbs, taking a sultry selfie with Pluto. She’s wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the image of Remy, the rodent culinary whiz from Ratatouille, while Gibbs is wearing mouse ears and a T-shirt with Cars protagonist Lightning McQueen. The two proceed to plug an app called Swingers Upon Main, touting it as “for…

On Twitter, we see Lil Nas X the troll. In his music, we hear Lil Nas X the musician. And in his new documentary, the “J Christ” singer hopes to give viewers a glimpse of Lil Nas X the human. “Some people think my music is dope. Some people see me as this satanic devil. But me?” he reflects while laying down. The trailer shows clips of his upbringing as he was grappling with deep anxiety attacks, and videos from his performances as he talks about the struggles of coming out to his family. (Lil Nas came out…

Sometimes a piece of content is perfectly designed to send various parts of the internet into a Tasmanian devil-style (cartoon NOT animal) whirlwind. The latest one surrounds a 5,000-word opinion piece written for the New York Times by an editor and member of the Gaylor community – people who theorise that Taylor Swift is secretly queer and has left clues and codes along her career to indicate so. The piece validated the corner of the internet that believes the theory, and caused controversy in three others , including a…

In every sense, Taylor Swift is an outlier. This week her Eras Tour film became the highest-grossing concert film in box office history, taking the record from Michael Jackson’s 2009 movie This Is It. She was the only artist who placed in the chart of the UK’s Top 10 albums of 2023 with a new album rather than an older one (albeit with a re-recording of her 2014 pop breakthrough 1989). Last year she became the first woman to have four albums in the US Top 10 at the same time, she took the record for the most US No 1…

“When you travel as a girl, you don’t learn anything about the world. All you learn is that there’s a way of looking at the world that doesn’t belong to you,” says twentysomething protagonist Sofie Lakmaker, who shares a surname and major biographical details with her author. She is recalling a trip around Europe she made at 18, with the possibility of danger at every corner: “At every hostel I stayed in I made sure to get a top bunk just so I could keep a lookout.” There’s the abjection that comes with having less power.…

The New York Times is under fire for publishing an invasive piece that speculates on Taylor Swift`s sexuality. The piece, which was titled `What We Made Taylor Swift Do`, is a 5,000-word article in which editor Anna Marks openly suggested how Taylor Swift`s references to the LGBTQ+ community are the singer sending subliminal messages about her sexuality, implying essentially that she is secretly a member of the community. New York Times faces backlash after speculating about Taylor Swift`s sexuality Anna Marks wrote,…

The New York Times is under fire for publishing a piece speculating on Taylor Swift’s sexuality.In a 5,000-word opinion piece titled Look What We Made Taylor Swift Do, editor Anna Marks listed references to the LGBTQ+ community overt or perceived in Swift’s music and theorized that the singer was sending coded messages that she was secretly a member of the community.The piece has drawn backlash from Times readers as well as “associates” of Swift, according to CNN.One such member of Swift’s team, speaking to the outlet on…

Country singer Chely Wright, who came out in 2010 as gay, has called a New York Times opinion piece, that’s being criticized for speculating about Taylor Swift‘s sexuality, “triggering” and “awful.” Wright, who first publicly discussed being gay in 2010 and shared her personal challenges around coming out as a Christian from rural Kansas in a Huffington Post blog, was mentioned in an op-ed the Times published Thursday titled “Look What We Made Taylor Swift Do.” The 5,000-word guest essay…