Heather Schwedel

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Heather Schwedel

When HBO announced that The Rehearsal would be returning for a second season, this one focusing on aviation safety, boyfriends everywhere rejoiced. Though I’ve gathered that Nathan Fielder is a hero among boyfriendkind, I still suspect few were rejoicing quite as hard as the Fielder fan in my life. That’s because, as a pilot, my boyfriend occupies what I imagine to be the very small overlap in the Venn diagram of people who had a preexisting passion for both Fielder and aviation.

3 weeks ago | slate.com | Heather Schwedel

Downtime This is part of Egg, an attempt to explain why Americans have absolutely lost their minds over egg prices. To err is human, and for much of history, to egg was too. For almost as long as chickens have laid eggs, human beings have hurled them, often as an act of defiance. But who can afford a symbolic sacrifice of a perfectly good egg in this economy?

3 weeks ago | slate.com | Heather Schwedel

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. We are now several days into the “Katy Perry and friends went to space!” news cycle, and things are getting weird. How weird, you ask? Well, rather than let the story fade away, a proxy for Perry is now demanding an apology from a fast-food chain.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Heather Schwedel

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysSign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. We are now several days into the “Katy Perry and friends went to space!” news cycle, and things are getting weird. How weird, you ask?

4 weeks ago | slate.com | Heather Schwedel

Fame Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. As stupid as I thought it would be, it was even stupider. It was one thing to understand intellectually that Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sánchez’s much hyped “all-female” trip to space aboard a Blue Origin rocket would in actuality only be an underwhelming 11 minutes long.