When he’s not running BostonTweet (or running the Boston Marathon), Tom O’Keefe is running around promoting Flutter. He was in studio with SumuApp co-founder Daniel Tewfik earlier today to talk about how you can win free rent for a year in Boston. More
When Buzzfeed writer Grace Spelman was a teenager, she was a huge Harry Potter fan. She was also a fan of Mugglecast, a popular Harry Potter podcast, going so far as to add one of the podcast’s hosts, Benjamin Schoen, as a friend on Facebook.
Tuesday, August 11 marks the one-year anniversary of the death of comedian Robin Williams. The beloved comedian and actor took his own life after a long battle with severe depression. Despite the outpouring of grief following Williams’s death, depression is a disease too often fought in silence.
Today, that briefly changed, as the hashtag #TheWorstPartofDepressionIs trended worldwide on Twitter, sparking a conversation on an issue many find difficult to discuss. More
All Harry Potter fans wait for the Hogwarts acceptance letter that they will never receive and dream of the house they want to join. You can hope to be part of Gryffindor all you want, but the choice belongs to the Sorting Hat. Now, instead of traveling the long journey to magic school, Muggles everywhere can consult a Twitter bot that will decide for you.
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Mindy Kaling’s older brother and Massachusetts native Vijay Chokalingam is preparing to release his first full-length book Almost Black, a chronicle detailing how he believes he got into medical school by claiming to be African American in the 1990s. More
While Cards Against Humanity is most famous for creating some of the most awkward moments at your most recent family get-together, they’re dipping their toes into social justice and outreach via a recently released new deck entitled the “Cards Against Humanity Science Ambassador Scholarship.” More
A private plane pilot either had some serious jet fuel to kill or had a fraternity in tow yesterday in Florida, as some flight enthusiasts noticed an, ahem, unusual pattern on tracking site Flightradar24. More
