Not just mess, but messy messy mess. As I was telling a friend this week, Peacock's Couple to Throuple is really just more mess (and it's on the high end for the amount of sex you'll see), and in that sense it's very conventional. But at least it's a different kind of mess than most other shows offer, particularly on mainstream outlets. (Holmes, NPR)
Read MoreAlmost half of American adults are now single (including the widowed and divorced), and a thought-provoking Valentine’s Day-themed Pew Research Center study a few years ago suggested that the majority of unmarried men and women aren’t looking to date (and if they are, it’s complicated). Evans, Religion News Service)
Read MoreMost teens who use drugs are searching for calm and hoping to relieve stress, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis suggests. The study points toward mental health challenges among teens as a driver of drug misuse — and says educating teens on harm reduction while expanding mental health treatment could reduce overdose deaths. (Blakemore, The Washington Post)
Read MoreThe Harry Potter author pledged the cash to For Women Scotland, which is going to the UK’s highest court in a long-running legal battle with the Scottish Government over whether biological men can legally become female under UK law. (Sanderson, The Telegraph)
Read MoreThe Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds to midnight and illustrates current trends to “global catastrophe.” (USA Today)
Read MoreA congressional committee said Friday that it would serve subpoenas on Harvard University in a hunt for documentation of whether the university tolerated antisemitism on its campus. (Hartocollis, The New York Times)
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