After 21 Years, Microsoft Is Shutting Down Skype. It’s Truly the End of an Era Skype never really made sense in a world where Microsoft wants everyone to use Teams. I don’t know for sure how this sort of thing works, but I imagine there was a meeting once where […]
The Silk Road refers to a network of interconnected trade routes that linked the East to the West from the 2nd century BCE to the 14th century CE. This route facilitated the exchange of goods, culture, ideas, and technologies between various civilizations across Europe, Asia, and Africa. History and Origin […]
Facing another backlash that’s put the company in political crosswinds, Google says that its removal of cultural holidays and events such as Black History Month from its Calendar app is a scaling issue and not ideological. Although some users on social media began noticing and posting about the changes online […]
The Chinese Couplet: History, Meaning, and Cultural Significance The Chinese couplet (对联, duìlián) is a unique and cherished form of Chinese literary art, woven deeply into the fabric of Chinese culture, tradition, and language. It consists of two parallel lines of poetry that must adhere to strict grammatical and tonal […]
We all have a past. And for some of us, our pasts are pretty complicated. We may have made some poor choices, or been dealt a difficult hand in life. But just because we have a complicated past, doesn’t mean we have to be defined by it. Here are five […]