That Rihanna reign just won’t let up. Even without a new album out, the “Lift Me Up” singer has still managed to set another milestone in music.

Yesterday (May 31), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) revealed that three of Rihanna’s beloved tracks earned diamond certification. With the numbers officially tallied, Rihanna added two shiny new accolades to her resume, including most diamond singles for a woman artist (6) and most diamond certified titles for a woman artist (7).

Rihanna took to her official X (formerly Twitter) page to celebrate the achievement.

“Ain’t no back n forth,” she wrote, reposting a custom graphic designed by management Roc Nation.

So, which of Rihanna’s bangers are classified as diamond? If you are a superfan (The Navy), the success of these records shouldn’t serve as a surprise. As of May 31, Rihanna’s 2007 song “Umbrella,” which featured Jay-Z, 2012’s “Stay,” as well as 2016’s “Needed Me” and “Work,” which featured Drake all entered RIAA’s diamond club.

In April, the 2011 crossover smash “We Found Love,” which featured Calvin Harris and “Diamonds” were classified as diamond tracks. Over a decade ago (May 2013), Rihanna snagged a diamond record as the featured guest on Eminem’s “Love The Way You Lie.”

The detailed metrics and more data can be found on RIAA’s official website. Find more information here.

Rihanna claims new music is on the way. But until that happens, her supporters have a few undeniable bops to enjoy while they wait R9’s release.

June is upon us, and you know what that means: a new season of The Bear is coming from FX on Hulu. As for the rest of the month? The number of essential watches is smaller, but they are most decidedly mightier. From a return to the kitchen to a rallying of the forces on Westeros to the baddest version of Homelander we’ve seen yet, your TV screen will get a workout.

Will that screen grow as hot in temperature as it will be outside? No way, and that’s the beauty of obsessing over TV in the heat of summer. Get down, Chefs, and consider these must see shows for June 2024.

The Mayor Of Kingstown: Season 2 (Paramount+ series streaming on 6/2)

Jeremy Renner returned to the Taylor Sheridan scene after substantial recovery from his near-deadly snowplow accident. As a result, the crime drama returns with Mike McLusky feeling pressure to end the drug war with the Russian mob complicating matters, but naturally, a blast from the past threatens his prospective peace, and at the same time, Kingstown is being plagued by explosions. It’s not Yellowstone‘s final episodes, but Sheridan-heads will be tuning in regardless.

Star Wars: The Acolyte: Season 1 (Disney+ series streaming on 6/4)

Did you have Star Wars procedural series of sorts on your 2024 bingo card? That’s not exactly what you’ll find here, but still, this diplomatic-mission story promises a different type of experience for fans of a galaxy far, far away. The events of this show transpire in the High Republic era, during which clue-hunting gets dark after a crime spree leads to conflict between a Jedi Master (Lee Jung-jae) and a warrior (Amanda Stenberg).

Sweet Tooth: Season 3 (Netflix series streaming on 6/6)

Team Downey’s savory slam-dunk series has returned to put a bow on the post-apocalyptic adventures of Gus and Jeopardy. In this final season, the questing parties head to Alaska in search of Gus’ mother, who is on a search of her own for the origins of the Sick. Unfortunately, Gus is the target of a new threat on the horizon, so it’s anyone’s guess how the hybrids and humanity will fare in the end.

Bridgerton: Season 3 Part 2 (Netflix series streaming on 6/13)

Those Kanthony scratch marks need to be one-upped, and Polin already did those honors in the carriage, but there’s more to come in that department. In the final half of this season, Penelope’s secret identity as Lady Whistledown could very well ruin everything with Colin, but we shall have to see what happens when that truth comes out. Despite losing the Duke a few seasons ago, this show has managed to keep the horny-fires burning for each consecutive season, and Netflix definitely knows their audience, so expect to see much more steam while we wait for all society-hell to break loose.

The Boys: Season 4 (Prime Video/Amazon series streaming on 6/13)

Although it does not seem possible, Hom(i)elander manages to be worse than ever this season while warming up two new Supes for the Seven. He believes that he is using that Gen V cameo to his advantage, but here’s something else: Billy Butcher will be doing the same. Beyond that clash, Butcher will need to make nice again with the vigilantes, and you know that they will give him hell but eventually climb onboard. This season, Starlight has also fully defected from Vought, and Victoria Neuman is continuing to build her power after revelations that she is a blood bender. The lingering question, however, would be this: how many prosthetic penises will we see this season? (Dammit, I cannot count that high.)

Hotel Cocaine: Season 1 (MGM+ series streaming on 6/16)

Danny Pino is fresh off his Mayans M.C. run for a slightly lighter number of a streaming show, and honestly, good for him. Pino portrays Roman Compte, the Mutiny Hotel’s GM who helps build the notorious establishment’s “Casablanca on cocaine” reputation. Narcos fans should get a real kick out of this series, and cocaine shows are so hot right now.

House of the Dragon: Season 2 (HBO series streaming on Max 6/16)

Is it possible for Daemon to become even more of a cad? Get ready to see that happen. This season will begin shortly after the deaths of Luc and Viserys, and the Targaryen civil war shall begin. Westeros devotees already know how this will end, but that will not even slightly diminish the thrill of watching the fire beasts take to the sky as Team Black and Team Green begin gathering alliances and beginning that tragic fight for the Iron Throne. Also yes, Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke’s chemistry is incredible, but sadly, they won’t have any screen time together in this season unless the source material experiences a drastic change. And yes, that’s possible, but only HBO knows what’s coming as of now.

The Bear: Season 3 (FX on Hulu series streaming on 6/27)

Cousin Richie. Enough said? We’ll see if he continues wearing suits after finding himself last season and being the unexpected MVP of Friends and Fam night. From there, Carmy and Natalie will need to figure out how to repay that massive loan, fast, and you know that Carmy will probably be even more obsessed with securing a Michelin star. Beyond that hot mess in the making, this show is coming back with Emmy acting wins for Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Jeremy Allen White. So, expectations are through the roof after the second season kept the fires going while switching narrative gears, and now, it’s down to business with the new restaurant. Get ready to be stressed out again and love it.

The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Cardi B, Eminem, and Roddy Ricch.

Cardi may be contemplating withholding her long-awaited second album for yet another year, but that didn’t stop her from teaming up with her fellow blazing stars, Megan Thee Stallion and GloRilla, on their hit single “Wanna Be.”

Eminem kicked off the rollout for his new album, The Death Of Slim Shady, with “Houdini.”

Roddy Ricch returned to soulful form on his prayerful new single, “Survivors Remorse.”

Polo G reflected on his tumultuous past as he restarted his Hood Poet rollout (again) with “Angels In The Sky.”

Here is the best of hip-hop this week ending May 31, 2024.

Albums/EPs/Mixtapes

Belly — 96 Miles From Bethlehem

Belly is Palestinian-Canadian, so the conflict in Gaza has resonated throughout his life. His new nine-track project speaks to its impact; the title is a reference to his birthplace, Jenin, and its fateful location. The album features a slew of Belly’s fellow Palestinian artists, including Elyanna, Saint Levant, Ibrahim Maalouf, and MC Abdul, and is a poignant plea for peace.

Big Hit, Hit-Boy & The Alchemist — Blacks & Whites

Wow, what a collection of names. Hit-Boy and The Alchemist are two of Southern California’s finest veteran beat makers, teaming up with Hit’s pops as the primary rapper (the album title is fitting in more ways than one). The OG keeps up with the young pups, seasoning his unhurried gangsta observations with the wisdom of a seasoned street soldier.

Dave East — Apt 6E

Teaming up with producer partners Mike & Keys, the Harlem rapper delivers more of his signature tough talk on this follow-up to the 2023 album, Fortune Favors the Bold. There are some surprising names included on the guest list, including West Coasters Buddy and Kurupt, but perhaps none is more eyebrow-raising than that of Shaggy.

Yung Pinch — Letters From The West

I’ve been resistant to include the Huntington Beach native in previous columns — I will freely admit my bias against that hellhole — but I gave the first few tracks a spin, and my ears didn’t fall off. I was pleasantly surprised by the earnestness of the opening track, “Letters,” I could easily picture the upbeat tracks supporting a summer shindig or two, and hey, there’s 03 Greedo to bridge the gap between South Central and the worst place in a 30-mile radius.

Singles/Videos

Concrete Boys — “Not Da 2” Feat. Karrahbooo & Lil Yachty

It’s very hard to find any flaws in Lil Yachty’s rollout for his new crew, Concrete Boys. They are a solid group, as befits their name, but even more solid is the decision to highlight Karrahbooo specifically, as she has the It Factor that suggests she’d be a star with or without the big-name co-sign.

Logic — “Deja Vu” Feat. DJ Drama

For all the fuss that’s been made of late about colorism and culture with regard to hip-hop, it’s probably not the best time for Logic to poke his head out. But, if he’s going to, there are probably worse phone numbers to call for backup than DJ Drama, who has been riding high on a solid string of Gangsta Grillz team-ups that includes Tyler The Creator’s Grammy-winning effort, Call Me If You Get Lost.

Meek Mill — “5AM In Philly”

For a moment, just set aside the obvious pettiness of the title. Just let the words wash over you. Take in the stomach-dropping imagery, the pained recollections, the bitterness, the fear, the anger, and the desperation conveyed in the raw lyricism. Admit that if all Meek did was rap, it’d be enough.

Mo3 — “AR” Feat. That Mexican OT & BigXThaPlug

The late Texan standout never really had the chance to collab directly with fellow Lone Star upstarts OT and BigX, but something about this posthumous combination feels authentic anyway. These are guys who’d have gotten along famously, and the features are a symbol of just how beloved Mo3 was in his home state.

As women work their way towards equality when it comes to the division of domestic labor, a new trend has them pointing out how men use weaponized incompetence to get out of their responsibilities.

Weaponized incompetence is a strategy in which someone appears incapable of performing specific tasks so that someone else has to pick up the slack. Many men use this tactic to make women primarily responsible for household chores, cooking and caring for children.

“This is something that women have been dealing with all their lives,” Nadine Shaanta Murshid, PhD, associate professor of social work at the University at Buffalo, believed to have coined the term, told The Skimm. “The idea is that men are not good at certain things like domestic labor. And so, why not have women who are good at it, do it, because they’re naturally predisposed to being good at this?”

A Redditor who goes by the name Latitude32 shared a powerful example of weaponized incompetence on a women’s forum in a post that has received over 1,300 comments. The post is titled: “Husband asked me how to do mac and cheese.”

“The kids had to be fed and I started a pot to make mac and cheese,” Latitude32 wrote. “I left it cooking to move on to the next task — to bathe our dog. I asked my husband to finish up the mac and cheese so I could continue bathing our dog.”

Unfortunately, he needed help making macaroni and cheese, a dish with only a few basic steps. This was strange because the man was an IT engineer who knew a thing or two about reading instructions and carrying out complex tasks.

“I’m elbow deep in dog hair and soap and the next thing I know, he had the nerve to ask me, ‘What do I do after draining the pasta?’ EXCUSE ME? Our kids are 13 and 5, so he has done mac and cheese MULTIPLE TIMES by now. Additionally, the instructions are, literally, ON THE BOX,” Latitude32 continued.

Her response to her husband? “Some of the best chefs in the world are men and you should figure it out.”

“If this isn’t weaponized incompetence, I don’t know what is,” Latitude32 concluded her post. “I can’t help but think we’ve set up the bar for guys waaaay too low.”

The post received many comments from women complaining that their husbands relied on weaponized incompetence to shield them from household responsibilities. However, many shared some constructive advice on how they solved the problem by setting appropriate boundaries with their husbands.

“My favorite saying always works here. ‘Pretend I’m dead. What would you do?’ I will not allow the weaponized incompetence,” Socialmediaignorant wrote. “If my husband pulls that ‘oh how do you do a simple task,’ I remind him he has THREE degrees, so I have every faith in him to figure it out,” No-Winter1049 added.

“I had a colleague whose rule for her husband and son was, ‘If they don’t do it well the first time, make sure they do it repeatedly until they’re good at it.’ They learned quickly that helplessness was not their friend,” Humanityrus wrote.

Not all men use weaponized incompetence to get out of household responsibilities. Plenty of adults respect their partners by pulling their fair share around the house. However, posts like Latitide32’s are a great way of explaining the tactics their significant others may use to avoid pulling their weight. When we expose the roots of a problem, it becomes a lot easier to identify and then, fix.

Addie Rodriguez was supposed to take the field with her dad during a high school football game, where he, along with other dads, would lift her onto his shoulders for a routine. But Addie’s dad was halfway across the country, unable to make the event.

Her father is Abel Rodriguez, a veteran airman who, after tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, was training at Travis Air Force Base in California, 1,700 miles from his family in San Antonio at the time.

“Mom missed the memo it was parent day, and the reason her mom missed the memo was her dad left Wednesday,” said Alexis Perry-Rodriguez, Addie’s mom. She continued, “It was really heartbreaking to see your daughter standing out there being the only one without their father, knowing why he’s away. It’s not just an absentee parent. He’s serving our country.”

But as Addie sat there in front of the game’s crowd, with no one to join her on the field, someone ran toward her. That person was Central Catholic High School senior Matthew Garcia, who went to her after realizing she was the only cheerleader without a partner.

Garcia told local news station FOX 29, “I ran down from the bleachers right here, and I just hopped the fence, and I went over, and I kneeled down, I talked to her and I said, ‘Are you OK?'”

He then lifted Addie onto his shoulders just like the dads did with their daughters so she could participate in the routine. Many onlookers quickly realized they were witnessing an extraordinary act of kindness, and social media was abuzz:

@Harvard hopeful @matt_garcia_ exhibits the true measure of a man! Read about him on ABC News & GMA today/tomorrow!https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/student-rescues-cheerleader-whose-military-dad-couldnt-attend-performanceu00a0u2026

— Central Catholic HS (@Central Catholic HS)
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It may have been a small gesture for Garcia, but as Addie tells it, that little bit of assistance meant the world to her. They posed for a picture after the routine was done, and it’s clear this will be one encounter she won’t soon forget.

“I just felt like somebody saved my life,” Addie said, adding, “I thought that’s so nice, especially since my dad’s serving for us.”

Watch the YouTube video below:

This article originally appeared on 08.21.18

In 2005, a Croatian architect designed a 230-foot-long organ that turns the rhythm of the waves into actual music.

Nope, not nonsensical bellows or chaotic tones. Real, actual, music.

Most of us have never seen, or heard, anything like it.

Imagine walking along the picturesque Adriatic Sea, treading lightly on a set of white stone steps as a cool breeze rolls past.

Carved into the steps are narrow channels that connect to 35 organ pipes, each tuned to different meticulously arranged musical chords.

As the waves lap against the steps, they push air through the pipes and out whistle-holes in the surface above, making a harmonious and completely random musical arrangement.

But you don’t see what’s happening below the surface. You close your eyes and all you hear is a song like you’ve never heard before, one completely unique to the movement of the sea at that exact moment.

Take a listen: Here’s what it sounded like at one particular moment, on one particular day. On any other day, it might sound completely different.

(Hit the orange button to hear it.)

Pretty amazing, right?

The Sea Organ, or the Morske Orgulje, is an incredible feat of architecture designed to bring life back to one of the world’s oldest cities.

Zadar, a 3,000-year-old city on the coast of Croatia, was almost completely destroyed in World War II –– so many of its ancient landmarks lost forever. Years after a rebuilding that featured lots of plain, concrete structures, award-winning architect Nikola Bašić was brought in to bring some delight back to the coastline.

That’s when he came up with the idea.

No doubt he was inspired by the hydraulis — a nifty little instrument built by the ancient Greeks that used water to push air through tuned pipes — or even the Wave Organ in San Francisco — a set of curved tubes built in the 1980s that amplify the gurgles and howls of the Pacific Ocean.

But the intricate design of the Sea Organ is what sets it apart and makes it truly something to marvel at.

This article originally appeared on 11.06.15

I got a promotion a few days ago, so I decided to stop for a drink on my way home — just me and my sense of accomplishment.

I ended up alone in the bar, running defense against a bouncer who held my ID hostage while he commented on my ass (among other things) and asked me vaguely threatening questions about my sex life.

This is not a Yelp review. It’s not an angry rant, and it’s definitely not something women need to be reminded of.

As far as I can tell, there is only one good lesson to pull out of this otherwise shitty and all-too-familiar interaction: In my experience, a lot of thoroughly decent men are still having trouble understanding this.

I have a friend who once joked that it was all right for him to catcall women because he’s good-looking. I had another ask me in faux outrage why it was OK for me to describe a cupcake (as in an actual chocolate baked good) as a “seven,” but not OK for him to rank women the same way. I was recently at a house party where a group of guys referred to a soundproofed recording studio in the basement as the “rape room” 45 times.

Some of these jokes were a little funny. Some of them really weren’t. But they were all endemic of something more sinister, and I honestly don’t think the men in question even realize it.

So to the generally well-intentioned men in my life, please consider this:

I have a friend who once joked that it was all right for him to catcall women because he’s good-looking. I had another ask me in faux outrage why it was OK for me to describe a cupcake (as in an actual chocolate baked good) as a “seven,” but not OK for him to rank women the same way. I was recently at a house party where a group of guys referred to a soundproofed recording studio in the basement as the “rape room” 45 times.

Some of these jokes were a little funny. Some of them really weren’t. But they were all endemic of something more sinister, and I honestly don’t think the men in question even realize it.

This has made me defensive. It has put me more on my guard than I would like to be.

Decent male humans, this is not your fault, but it also does not have nothing to do with you.

If a woman is frosty or standoffish or doesn’t laugh at your joke, consider the notion that maybe she is not an uptight, humorless bitch, but rather has had experiences outside your realm of understanding that have adversely colored her perception of the world.

Consider that while you’re just joking around, a woman might actually be doing some quick mental math to see if she’s going to have to hide in a bathroom stall and call someone to come help her, like I did three days ago.

Please adjust your mindset and your words accordingly.

This article was written by Laura Munoz and originally appeared on 03.08.16.

The legality of abortion is one of the most polarized debates in America—but it doesn’t have to be.

People have big feelings about abortion, which is understandable. On one hand, you have people who feel that abortion is a fundamental women’s rights issue, that our bodily autonomy is not something you can legislate, and that those who oppose abortion rights are trying to control women through oppressive legislation. On the other, you have folks who believe that a fetus is a human individual first and foremost, that no one has the right to terminate a human life, and that those who support abortion rights are heartless murderers.

Then there are those of us in the messy middle. Those who believe that life begins at conception, that abortion isn’t something we’d choose—and we’d hope others wouldn’t choose—under most circumstances, yet who choose to vote to keep abortion legal.

It is entirely possible to be morally anti-abortion and politically pro-choice without feeling conflicted about it. Here’s why.

There’s far too much gray area to legislate.

No matter what you believe, when exactly life begins and when “a clump of cells” should be considered an individual, autonomous human being is a debatable question.

I personally believe life begins at conception, but that’s my religious belief about when the soul becomes associated with the body, not a scientific fact. As Arthur Caplan, award-winning professor of bioethics at New York University, told Slate, “Many scientists would say they don’t know when life begins. There are a series of landmark moments. The first is conception, the second is the development of the spine, the third the development of the brain, consciousness, and so on.”

But let’s say, for the sake of argument, that a human life unquestionably begins at conception. Even with that point of view, there are too many issues that make a black-and-white approach to abortion too problematic to ban it.

Abortion bans hurt some mothers who desperately want their babies to live, and I’m not okay with that.

One reason I don’t support banning abortion is because I’ve seen too many families deeply harmed by restrictive abortion laws.

I’ve heard too many stories of families who desperately wanted a baby, who ended up having to make the rock-and-a-hard-place choice to abort because the alternative would have been a short, pain-filled life for their child.

I’ve heard too many stories of mothers having to endure long, drawn out, potentially dangerous miscarriages and being forced to carry a dead baby inside of them because abortion restrictions gave them no other choice.

I’ve heard too many stories of abortion laws doing real harm to mothers and babies, and too many stories of families who were staunchly anti-abortion until they found themselves in circumstances they never could have imagined, to believe that abortion is always wrong and should be banned at any particular stage.

I am not willing to serve as judge and jury on a woman’s medical decisions, and I don’t think the government should either.

Most people’s anti-abortion views—mine included—are based on their religious beliefs, and I don’t believe that anyone’s religion should be the basis for the laws in our country. (For the record, any Christian who wants biblical teachings to influence U.S. law, yet cries “Shariah is coming!” when they see a Muslim legislator, is a hypocrite.)

I also don’t want politicians sticking their noses into my very personal medical choices. There are just too many circumstances (seriously, please read the stories linked in the previous section) that make abortion a choice I hope I’d never have to make, but wouldn’t want banned. I don’t understand why the same people who decry government overreach think the government should be involved in these extremely personal medical decisions.

And yes, ultimately, abortion is a personal medical decision. Even if I believe that a fetus is a human being at every stage, that human being’s creation is inextricably linked to and dependent upon its mother’s body. And while I don’t think that means women should abort inconvenient pregnancies, I also acknowledge that trying to force a woman to grow and deliver a baby that she may not have chosen to conceive isn’t something the government should be in the business of doing.

As a person of faith, my role is not to judge or vilify, but to love and support women who are facing difficult choices. The rest of it—the hard questions, the unclear rights and wrongs, the spiritual lives of those babies,—I comfortably leave in God’s hands.

Most importantly, if the goal is to prevent abortion, research shows that outlawing it isn’t the way to go.

The biggest reason I vote the way I do is because based on my research pro-choice platforms provide the best chance of reducing abortion rates.

Abortion rates fell by 24% in the past decade and are at their lowest levels in 40 years in America. Abortion has been legal during that time, so clearly, keeping abortion legal and available has not resulted in increased abortion rates. Switzerland has one of the lowest abortion rates on earth and their rate has been falling since 2002, when abortion became largely unrestricted.

Outlawing abortion doesn’t stop it, it just pushes it underground and makes it more dangerous. And if a woman dies in a botched abortion, so does her baby. Banning abortion is a recipe for more lives being lost, not fewer.

At this point, the only things consistently proven to reduce abortion rates are comprehensive sex education and easy, affordable access to birth control. If we want to reduce abortions, that’s where we should be putting our energy. The problem is, anti-abortion activists also tend to be the same people pushing for abstinence-only education and making birth control harder to obtain. But those goals can’t co-exist in the real world.

Our laws should be based on reality and on the best data we have available. Since comprehensive sex education and easy, affordable access to birth control—the most proven methods of reducing abortion rates—are the domain of the pro-choice crowd, that’s where I place my vote, and why I do so with a clear conscience.

This article originally appeared on 01.22.19

Laughter is one of the most natural impulses in humans. Most babies start to laugh out loud at around 3 to 4 months, far earlier than they are able to speak or walk. Expressing enjoyment or delight comes naturally to us, but we’re not the only creatures who communicate with giggles.

Researchers at UCLA have identified 65 species of animals who make “play vocalizations,” or what we would consider laughter. Some of those vocalizations were already well documented—we’ve known for a while that apes and rats laugh—but others may come as a surprise. Along with a long list of primate species, domestic cows and dogs, foxes, seals, mongooses and three bird species are prone to laughter as well. (Many bird species can mimic human laughter, but that’s not the same as making their own play vocalizations.)

Primatologist and UCLA anthropology graduate student Sasha Winkler and UCLA professor of communication Greg Bryant shared their findings in an article in the journal Bioacoustics.

The authors explored various play vocalization sounds, recording them as noisy or tonal, loud or quiet, high- or low-pitched, short or long, a single call or rhythmic pattern.

But really, what we want to see is what animal laughter sounds like from various species, right? While the researchers said that it can be hard to document laughter in the wild, especially among animals with quieter vocalizations, we do have some examples captured on video.

Check out these foxes laughing like little kids:

Or maybe little kids on helium. How fun is that?

Ever seen a bonobo chimp laugh? Just as cute.

I’m not sure if tickling a baby bonobo is sweet or torturous, though these researchers surely know what they’re doing. It’s always delightful to see the instinctual playfulness of primates.

Laughter in some animals isn’t as audibly apparent as it is in these foxes and chimps, though. Researchers from Humboldt University of Berlin found that rats laugh when they are tickled—and appear to enjoy tickling, as they seek it out—but their vocalizations are ultrasonic, so it’s hard to hear them without special instruments.

The UCLA researchers shared that the study of laughter in animals can help us better understand our own evolutionary behavior.

“This work lays out nicely how a phenomenon once thought to be particularly human turns out to be closely tied to behavior shared with species separated from humans by tens of millions of years,” Bryant said, according to UCLA.

“When we laugh, we are often providing information to others that we are having fun and also inviting others to join,” Winkler said. “Some scholars have suggested that this kind of vocal behavior is shared across many animals who play, and as such, laughter is our human version of an evolutionarily old vocal play signal.”

Raise your hand if you just want to see a cow laughing for real now.

This article first appeared on 1.14.22

With an album called Rainbow, future Rock-and-Roll Hall of Famer Mariah Carey releasing a Gay Pride collection with Amazon seems like a no-brainer. Here’s how you can find the collection — which, yes, does include Rainbow-branded pieces as well.

Beginning today, May 31, you can visit Amazon’s official Mariah Carey Pride 2024 site here to check out the items on offer, which include:

A white t-shirt featuring Mariah Carey’s Rainbow album artwork on the front.

A white t-shirt featuring a multicolor Mariah Carey heart graphic on the front with a graphic of a martini and “MC” text on the back, along with Mariah’s lyric, “Baby, It’s A Wrap!”

A cream hoodie with a rainbow Mariah Carey graphic on the front and the Rainbow cover on the back.

A pink-and-white trucker hat with multicolor Mariah Carey screen print artwork.

That’s just a sample of the millennial nostalgia-baiting collection, which also features hand fans, a drinking tumbler, and, of course, the Mariah Carey Funko Pop! figurine.

Despite having cultivated a reputation as queen of the winter holidays, it looks like Carey’sinvincible legacy travels well. She’s also been busy this year, appearing on the remix of Muni Long’s hit “Made For Me,” collaborating with whistle-tone successor Ariana Grande on “Yes And?” and adding eight new dates to her Las Vegas residency.