Millenials are the generation of many things, but one of them is the generation of allergies. The generations before us had virtually none of the types of serious reactions to products such as food that have become sadly common among my contemporaries. As the New England Journal of Medicine notes…

Does the plant-based meat industry care about animals? Much of the narrative underlying their rise to prominence in recent years would imply that the answer to that question is “yes, of course!” But a closer examination of what it’s CEO actually believes, as well as the methodology by which…

There is a common saying about the start of a Major League Baseball season that goes “the season really starts on Memorial Day.” How is this the case, when Opening Day in fact generally takes place at the beginning of April, or even late March? This is because, due…

Russia’s top hockey tournament has given Russian fans the matchup of heavyweights they have been clamoring for during this entire season. The Gagarin Cup’s Conference Finals feature matchups between the top two seeds in both the KHL’s Western and Eastern Conferences- SKA St. Petersburg and CSKA Moscow in the…

The 2021 ATP Masters in Miami was a golden opportunity for more than 99 percent of the professional tennis ranks. Miami is one of the only times in the last fifteen years that a major ATP tournament would not be contested by any of the “Big Three” (formerly the…

I was born in a city, and cities were what shaped me as a person. Furthermore, it was not just any city where I was born, but the most archetypal and cosmopolitan of them all- New York City, on the island of Manhattan. Some of my earliest, most blurry…

I grew up as a part of the first allergy generation. Both according to self-reporting among the millennial generation as well as studies conducted on the subject, allergies to many things, most notably food, have become more and more common in children born in the late 20th century and…

I have never been one to skip dessert- ever. I am too young to actually recall these events, but my parents have many times regaled me with the story of when I first tried ice cream as a very small child. The story goes that upon having this new taste…

When someone mentions Russian hockey, it conjures a set of very specific images in the minds of fans around the world, especially in the West. For older fans, it conjures images of the famous Soviet Olympic teams coached by the indomitable Viktor Tikhonov, combining iron-clad, Red Army discipline in…