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Stephen Hawking explains how to (sort-of) escape a black hole
Originally posted on Quartz: This post has been corrected. If you find yourself stuck inside a black hole, Stephen Hawking says not to panic: You may die, but all traces of your existence may not be...
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How to Increase Mental Toughness: 4 Secrets From Navy SEALs and Olympians
Originally posted on TIME: Know what’s really interesting? Learning how Navy SEALs build mental toughness to handle deadly situations. Know what else is really interesting? Learning how Olympic...
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Bieber continues exploring his more mature sound with #WhatDoYouMean
Click here to listen to Bieber’s “What Do You Mean” “Tick-tock-tick-tock.” In an attempt to follow up to his borderline “I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman” LP Believe, Justin Bieber delivers a mature...
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Two Indian Sisters Ordered to Be Raped by Village Council Beg Supreme Court...
Kittu Pannu:Are you kidding me right now? Originally posted on TIME: A petition to save two sisters in India from being raped and publicly humiliated for their brother’s actions, a punishment handed...
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@Beyonce Makes Delicious Lemonade from the Lemons Dealt to Her. #MidnightMusings
“You better call Becky with the good hair” – Beyoncé is WOKE Beyoncé broke her silence this past weekend with what could only be construed as a “call to arms” to all people everywhere who have been...
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June Reflections: Pride, Minority Status, and Mass Shootings
Writing has been my coping method of choice in the past, and this ordeal has brought up so much. Bear with me. It’s Monday, June 13, 2016. Two days after one of the most deadly recorded mass shootings...
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Reflections on an Impending Trump Presidency
Dear President-Elect Donald J. Trump, You’ve done the unthinkable. You’ve convinced a little more than half of the country that you’re the right man for the highest office of power in the world. You...
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2017: The Music That Moved Me.
If anything, 2017 could be summed up in a few cliché words: challenging, tiring, and growth-inspiring. Like I USED to do, I want to take some time to appreciate one of the things I enjoyed about this...
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A Year of Love, Lust, and Everything In-Between.
(To follow along musically, click play on this YouTube Playlist and start reading along) Love. It’s this complicated emotion that truly makes the world go round. It’s what wars are fought over. It’s...
View ArticleThe “Delicate” We Deserve. #DelicateMusicVideo
Okay, readers. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I love Taylor Swift’s music. While she may be a problematic white female who calculates every move, weighing her self-interest over the greater good,...
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GaGa Reminds Us Why We Fell for Her on “Stupid Love”
In a world where the Selenas, Duas, and Arianas of the world continue to churn out subdued, darker, and introspective earworms, Lady GaGa returns to the trenches in a most deliberate fashion. “Stupid...
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The #NewRules of Quarantining During an Outbreak
Update: here’s the companion video to this blog post In times of major conflict, issues like uncertainty, anxiety, depression, and grief tend to plague all of us. Experts are finding this is certainly...
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GaGa Takes All of Us to #ClubQuarantine on #RainOnMe
Lady GaGa and Ariana Grande team up on new single “Rain On Me” While she may have burst onto the scenes of this new era pre-Quarantine with a reminiscent zest for life on “Stupid Love,” Lady GaGa...
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Avoiding #ActivismBurnout While Advocating for #BLM
Update: here’s the companion video to this blog post As issues of systemic racism against Black people have taken a front-and-center position across the United States, many of us may find ourselves...
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Kylie Soothes the Masses on #SaySomething
Just as the initial euphoric feelings of genius begin to wear off from subsequent, repetitive listens of both Jessie Ware‘s and Lady GaGa‘s recent offerings (“Stupid Love” and “Rain On Me“), my...
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Dealing with our #NewNormal: Protection and Coping During a Pandemic
At the moment, life is coming at many of us hard. Whether it’s COVID-19 continuing to wreak havoc on various populations, police brutality beating us down, the fallout of polarizing politics...
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2020’s Top 70 Albums: Nos. 70-51
This year was anything but ordinary. In an effort to draw attention to the plethora of good music that made their way onto our playlists and recall some of the positive things that occurred this year,...
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2020’s Top 70 Albums: Nos. 50-31
Welcome to Part 2 of Kittu’s Top Albums of 2020! The stakes are higher, the music better, and the memories associated with these songs that much richer. With several surprises, upsets, and even...
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2020’s Top 70 Albums: Nos. 30-11
In Part 3 of my Top Albums of 2020 List, I’m splitting hairs – the quality of music is so great, but there has to be some give. I present to you Nos. 30-11, featuring some of the biggest Latin,...
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2020’s Top 70 Albums: Nos. 10-1
In this labor of love, I give you the COMPLETE Top 70 Albums of 2020. It’s been a long and tedious journey to get here, but I did it – I reviewed 70 albums. I wrote nearly 20,000 words to describe the...
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