The Brick taught me how to be bored again

I spend way too much time staring at screens. When I wake up, I reach for my phone first. In addition to the eight hours a day I spend typing away at my computer, my phone is always there, tempting me to open it and scroll through Instagram rather than getting my work done. When…

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Daters: Stop obsessing over height

This article contains spoilers for Materialists. When the internet discovered that Tinder was testing a height preference, it reignited a long-discussed matter: the importance of height, particularly men’s height, in dating. The new film Materialists touches on height and romance as well, and now it’s the topic du jour once again. Focusing on appearance seems…

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