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In April 2020 Netflix released the first season of Special. Ryan O'Connell is creator, writer and star of the series, based on his 2015 memoir I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves. The book and series pull directly from O'Connell's life of hiding his cerebral palsy behind injuries sustained from a car accident. "I moved to New York and people were like, 'Oh my God, your limp, it's all from your accident,' and I was like, 'Twist! It is!'" O'Connell told NPR's Ask Me Another host Ophira Eisenberg that, at the time, he thought it was easier to go with a false explanation that everyon...

By ANTONIO G. PAPA, Ph.D. In the Philippine setting, the children of the marginal farmers and subsistence fishermen are often in a disadvantaged situation as far as education is concerned. Usually, the children from the farming and fishing communities do not want to duplicate their parents’ fa

(Photo : Pexels/Thought Catalog) Snapchat lawsuit speed filter Snapchat can be sued over a speed filter that is said to encourage reckless driving, despite the broad legal protections for social media networks. Snapchat Speed Filter The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court revived a case that was dismissed last year, reversing an earlier ruling that favored Snapchat. According to The Verge, it concluded that even if users were populating the filter with their own high driving speeds, Snapchat could still be liable for implicitly rewarding that behavior. The case, Lemmon v. Snap, was filed after a 20-...

SHARE Photo courtesy of Thought Catalog via Unsplash Zoom fatigue, working long hours, the inability to turn off work at night and constant notifications on mobile devices have become a way of life during the pandemic—but our inability to manage workplace stress is nothing new. To combat this and to preserve employee mental health, we have to understand how stress improves and impedes us. “What overwhelms people the most is often not the stress itself, but the perception of a lack of control or one’s ability to feel like they have choice,” says Dr. Christelle Ngnoumen, senior be...

April 29, 2021 at 3:30pm (Updated at 4 p.m.) Starting July 1, adults 21 and older in Virginia can legally possess up to one ounce of marijuana. Ahead of that date, local police departments say they are preparing their officers, while advocates say the bill needs serious retooling to keep kids out of the juvenile justice system and help reverse the harm done to Black and brown communities after decades of unequal enforcement. “We still have time to fix many of these things,” Chelsea Higgs Wise, executive director of the racial justice and cannabis advocacy group Marijuana Justice, said. �...