Joanna Sommer

You may have experienced FOMO — the fear of missing out — before, like if you didn’t go to an event that your friends went to and now you feel like you’re missing out on the experience. It’s a frequently used phrase to explain that missing out feeling, and it’s what’s driving over 40% of Gen Z to start investing, according to a survey by the CFA Institute and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Investor Education Foundation. The two organizations surveyed a total of 2,872 people in Ge…

It’s been a busy week of worrisome environmental and climate news, between the wildfires in Canada, the resulting smoke impacting much of the northeast and the Arctic potentially having iceless summers by 2030. And in more climate-related news, a recent article from Inside Climate News shared news that conservation programs led by the Department of Agriculture are giving millions of dollars to farms that are worsening climate change. The article shared a report from the Institute for Agricul…

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Ah, TikTok. The center for circulating viral memes and coming up with new tests and questions to ask your significant other. I’m sure you’re familiar with the ever-so famous “would you still love me if I were a worm?” or the most recent “name a woman” trend, where women ask their boyfriends to say any woman’s name anticipating that they’ll say their girlfriend’s name (and possibly start a fight if they don’t). Now there’s a new one: People are asking their boyfriends if they’d rather be a samura…

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