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By Jenny Peters This is Concierge Confidential, a series in which we learn about a city’s best-kept secrets from people who specialize in exactly that: long-serving concierges from the best hotels in town. As a Four Seasons Miami hotel concierge, Ferna…

By Tanner Garrity According to a new study published in Science Advances, a gene-editing tool called CRISPR-dCas9 could offer the brain a “factory reset” that would effectively erase years of neurological damage from adolescent binge drinking. Scientis…

By Evan Bleier An all-time NBA player is hoping to bring his magic touch to pro football by teaming up with an ownership group that is bidding to purchase the Denver Broncos. Former Los Angeles Lakers star Earvin “Magic” Johnson has joined up with a pr…

By Kirk Miller It’s World Password Day, held on the first Thursday of May since 2013 as a way to remind people to not use “password” as their password and generally practice better and more secure habits online. It’s also a good day to hear a lot of so…

By Evan Bleier When the Indianapolis Colts moved on from franchise quarterback Peyton Manning after he missed a season with a neck injury, they thought they’d found his heir apparent in Andrew Luck. For a while, despite putting Luck behind a suspect of…

By Kayla Kibbe The moment you probably haven’t been waiting for is here: Sex Island is back! But wait, what is Sex Island? No, despite the incredibly uninventive name, it’s not a cheap Netflix ripoff of a reality dating show. Rather, Sex Island is an e…

By Tanner Garrity The first time I made it to Europe, a decade ago, I briefly met a gentleman in a jewelry shop near Mt. Vesuvius. He was the local watchmaker. I remember watching him hunched over his desk, choosing microscopic tools and gears from a m…

By Evan Bleier A dumpster fire off of the diamond due to inept management and poor public relations, the 2022 Cincinnati Reds are also an unmitigated disaster on the field and currently have the worst record in Major League Baseball at 3-20 after losin…

By Tanner Garrity There have been enough dramatic Marvel transformations by now that it’s common to hear people explain how “easy” it must be for A-listers to get shredded. With a team of dedicated trainers and nutritionists, plus endless free time (th…

By Lindsay Rogers The passport is the holy grail of personal identification. And yet, not all passports are created equal. Based on the country of issue, some passports are actually more powerful than others. Some people, as a sort of birth right, also…