Alisa Stern

15 words we use for periods that are funny any time of the month

The Red Badge of Courage. You earned it.

05/23/2023

By Vicky Leta , Andrea Romano , and Alisa Stern

An illustration of a hand marking a calendar, accompanied by text reading: "That time of the month."

Shop our interactive video to find stress-relieving gifts for everyone on your list

Give your people a more relaxing 2023 with these chill-inducing gift picks.

11/29/2022

By Alisa Stern, Ian Moore, Zain Awais

a snowman stands next to a sign with a gift to his left

Who invented ‘spam email’? Monty Python, unwittingly.

Why do we call junk email… spam?

10/02/2022

By Alisa Stern

A brief history of the iPhone

It all started in 2007.

09/08/2022

By Mashable Video and Alisa Stern

a graphic composition of iphone models over the years lined up

Did astronauts really eat freeze dried ice cream in space?

Ice cream and NASA go way back - all the way back to the Apollo program! But astronauts probably didn’t consume as much freeze dried ice cream as your local science museum’s gift shop has you assuming.

06/10/2022

By Alisa Stern

Cartoon astronaut holds an ice cream cone.

The ultimate case for living on Venus

Leave Mars to the ultra-rich. It’s Venus we should move to one day.

03/08/2022

By Danica D'Souza , Nikolay Nikolov , and Alisa Stern

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