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Math is weird.

On the one hand, it’s consistent—the solutions to basic math problems are the same in every country in the world. On the other hand, there are multiple strategies to get to those solutions, and it seems like people are still coming up with new ones (much to the chagrin of parents whose kids need help with homework using methods they’ve never learned).

Math professor Howie Hua shares math strategies that make math easier on social media, and his videos are fascinating. Hua, who teaches math to future elementary school teachers at Fresno State, demonstrates all kinds of mental math tricks that feel like magic when you try them.

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For instance, Hua has two videos showing how easy and quick it is to add multidigit numbers left to right instead of right to left, and it’s genuinely mind-blowing.

Check out how he explains why adding left to right is “underrated.”

u201cNew TikTok video: Adding left to right is underratedu201d

— Howie Hua (@Howie Hua)
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OK, seriously. That is way easier to do in your head. It’s basically putting the numbers into expanded form and adding them, which makes it easier to visualize.

Adding this way makes sense, but subtracting is a bit more complicated, right?

Wrong, apparently. Watch Hua work his math sorcery subtracting two and three-digit numbers.

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Did you know you can subtract left to right? #math #mathematics #mathtok #maths #teachersoftiktok #teacher #mathtricks #mathtrick

Holy moly. That’s faster than the right-to-left, borrow-from-the-next-column method, isn’t it? And again, so much easier to visualize what’s actually happening, though I don’t know if I could fully do this in my head like I could with the left-to-right addition.

Hua recently shared another cool subtraction trick for problems with minuends that have a lot of zeroes. (The minuend is the first number in a subtraction problem. Don’t be too impressed. I had to look it up.)

Check this out:

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An underrated subtraction strategy #math #mathematics #mathtok #maths #teachersoftiktok #teacher #mathtricks #mathtrick

So simple, so time-saving and so something I would never have figured out on my own.

These tips and tricks might come in handy for anyone, but they’re especially useful for kids who are having to do these kinds of math problems at school all the time. Even if they’re supposed to solve the problem with a different strategy, these methods can be a quick way to check their answers.

Anything that makes math easier, I say. You can watch Hua’s videos on TikTok, YouTube and Twitter.

This article originally appeared on 10.12.22

There have been a few momentous changes since the dawn of the new millennium, creating an invisible line between those born before and after. The big events that forever changed culture are the creation of the smartphone, dawn of social media and terror attacks on 9/11.

People who were born in 1999 or later have, for the most part, lived in a world where they were either too young to know what life was like before these events or weren’t born yet.

That’s not to say that one era is better or worse. But, when an entire generation has no idea what it is like to go through a day without being connected to the internet, we’re bound to eventually lose any understanding of living IRL 24/7.

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Those of us who haven’t lived in a world without intense security while traveling will be less inclined to return to a time when it was easier to move through the world without fear. People who live in a time where everything is available on demand have no idea how much they should appreciate the convenience. Back in the day, if you missed a show, you may not ever have a chance to see it again in your entire life.

A Reddit user named Haunting_Ad_1224 posed a question to the AskReddit forum that got a lot of Gen Xers and older generations, nostalgic for the days before Y2K. They asked the forum, “What’s something that people under 25 will never understand?” and received nearly 2,000 responses. The commenters talked a lot about the benefits of being able to disconnect while also sharing their nostalgia for the days of landlines and cassette tapes.

Here are 15 things that people under 25 will never understand.

1. Taping songs off the radio

“Waiting for a song to come on the radio so you can tape it but completely forgetting until it comes on then making a mad dash to the radio.” — Collieman 1123

“Or having the dj talk over the intro.” — HorselRockit

2. The Time Lady

“Calling from a landline to get the current time.” — Surround726

3. Calling for movie times

“Calling your local theater for show times.” — Andushan

“Moviefone and a notepad and pencil.” — PerpetualGazebo

“Or checking the newspaper for show times.” — ieatboys999

4. Talking to parents

“Calling your friend’s house on the landline and making small talk with their parents when they were the ones who answered until your friend got to the phone.” — McVinney512

“Calling a girl you have a crush on but her mom answers and you have a 20-minute conversation because she sounds just like said girl until you say something embarrassing and she realizes she is not talking to her brother.” — GlyohedArchitect

5. Life before the internet

“I’m as addicted to my phone as the typical teenager, but I’m old enough to remember when I’d get off work at the end of the day and there was no expectation that I was reachable until I came back to work the following day. Good times, didn’t appreciate it enough back then.” — Moshethemean

“The idea that being asleep, having dinner, or watching a show was a perfectly good reason why no one answered the phone.” — Reavenas

6. Privacy

“Privacy is rapidly going away. But the root cause is people not valuing it. If you told people in the ’70s that people 50 years later would be happy to have open mics to multiple corporate headquarters in their living rooms they would freak out. There’s no way you could convince someone from the ’70s that people would actually want that and not value their privacy in any substantive manner. I can barely understand it myself.” — Dcnblues

7. Boredom

“Went to use the bathroom the other day while my phone was charging, resorted back to the old days, and read the stuff on shampoo bottles.” — Hairyemmie

8. Dial-up internet tone

“Trying to sneak online with dial-up when you’re supposed to be asleep. There was no muting those dial-up tones.” — XxVerdantFlamesX

9. Film cameras

“Taking pictures, then waiting for them to be developed to see if they turned out okay. YEAH, I am really old lol.” — Ranjoko

“… resulting in a few dozen cherished memories you will keep as treasures in a box or on a wall. Not thousands of no-effort shots in the cloud no-one will ever look at except perhaps AI image scanners.” — Moose2342

10. Life before 9/11

“You ever see movies where family or a friend is at the gate waiting for someone to get off the plane to hug them? Yeah that. … People could often even accompany you on the airplane to see you off, and then they’d leave the plane before departure.” — -DementedAvenger-

11. Being a free kid

“Being kicked out of the house for the day during the summer and riding your bicycles around town and buying candy with the 50 cents you have to your name. No phones, no tablets, just finding your friends at the or whatever. Having that become the best day ever.” — CapricornMonk

12. Commercial breaks

“The mad dash to go to the bathroom or heat up food before the commercials ended and your show came back on.” — Leokina114

“Alternatively, painstakingly programming the clock on your vcr, and setting it up to record the show on a blank tape.” — Griffin Flash

13. The power of channel 3

“Using channel 3 as the source to play video games or use the VCR.” — Substantial-Cream-93

“Also, when the reception went out, we had to go up to the attic to fiddle with the antenna. TV static is also different – went from fuzzy white noise to digital blips. We watched so many shows through static but when the pixels blip it’s gone. Also now it seems we lose service way more often than when TV wasn’t all digital.” — Shewholaughslasts

14. Aging

“How quickly they will become 50.” — Icy_Newspaper3739

“This is no joke. There’s a saying that the days are long but the years are short. Perhaps the most accurate phrases ever uttered.” — Junior-Gorg

15. Disappearing

“Being able to just ‘disappear’ for a while. Before cell phones, there was a time when people couldn’t get ahold of you at all times for any reason.” — Yikester

“This is something I love about flying, there’s no way to contact me since I’ve never paid for WiFi. No calls, emails, Whatsapp, can’t mindlessly scroll Reddit or watch YouTube, just completely disconnected.” — Dr-Kipper

What’s it like to sue Donald J. Trump? Just ask Roberta Kaplan; she’s done it twice. Kaplan was E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer in her two — and counting! — defamation suits against the former president. Shortly after the latest case ended with Trump forced to fork over a cool $83 million, Kaplan opened up about her experiences in a new chat with New York, during which she revealed her secret to driving an already tetchy guy totally bonkers.

Kaplan spent much of the interview talking about Trump’s deposition, which didn’t go swimmingly. (More on that in a bit.) At day’s end, before they parted ways, Trump’s team asked if he could say something off the record. “You could tell that they kind of had a joke about it,” she said.

It’s at this point that the 45th president looked up at Kaplan and said, “See you next Tuesday.”

Do you get it? If you don’t have a trash brain, you may not. Kaplan didn’t get it:

And so I said to him, “What are you talking about? I’m coming back on Wednesday.” Which was when the Carroll deposition was. And then I didn’t know anything until we got in the car, and my colleague — who is much younger and hipper — said to me, “Robbie, you know what that means?” And I said “no.” They told me, and I said, “Oh my God. I’m so glad.” Because I would not have kept my equanimity.

For those who still don’t get it, Trump called Kaplan the c-word.

Kaplan also discussed his antics before he dropped a sexist insult. Trump, she said, “couldn’t really control himself.” He’d hit them with a “constant barrage” of insults, mostly to Carroll, who wasn’t even in the room, but also to Kaplan. For instance, at one point he reiterated his claim that Carroll is “not his type,” only to tell Kaplan that neither is she.

“He told me that he was gonna sue me very strongly, whatever that means,” she recalled. “He told me that I was a disgrace, et cetera, et cetera.”

Kaplan admitted that she’s “not someone who’s known for their equanimity.” And yet she was able to suppress her inner beast:

I knew it was important to stay calm. And so I just did. I just let him keep saying it, and he would kinda go off. He does this a lot in all the different cases. He kind of goes on a tirade, like, he speechifies in answering questions — which is never what you want your client to do. And I would just kind of look up after a while, and I would say to him, “Are you done yet? Because I have another question to ask.” Which, of course, drove him completely insane.

Kaplan added that it “took a lot of impulse control on my part, but I managed.”

Trump, of course, wasn’t much better behaved in court, which Kaplan thinks may have been intentional, as though he wanted to lose to gain even more pity votes. That or may not be true, but since Trump’s reportedly planning to act up even more during his Jan. 6 trial, it probably is.

(Via New York)

It’s hard to imagine a 6′ 3 man such as Alan Ritchson as a scrawny teen pirouetting across the dance floor, but we all start somewhere. Ritchson might be the brawny Jack Reacher on Amazon’s wildly successful series Reacher, but when he was young he was just like every other teenage boy: dreading going to dance class!

Ritchson told Men’s Health that he met his wife, Catherine, as a teenager in a ballet class. But he surely didn’t have the confidence of Jack Reacher (who does?) so it took months for him to talk to her. He explained, “After the millionth time of us sitting next to each other, inches away, tying our shoes—so now it’s super awkward—I was like, ‘So I heard you ice-skate.’” The rest was history, and the duo got married in 2006.

The actor also shared that, despite his height and build, he was bullied by his peers as a teen, especially when a tumor on his face started growing. “When you haven’t hit puberty and you’re 17 and you’ve got a face growing out of your face, it fortifies a sense of kindness that I’m grateful for.” He had his face fixed and swiftly moved off to Florida to become a model. It was the early 2000s, and ANTM was all the rage, so at the time it was the right thing to do.

It took some time for Ritchson to break out in the mainstream. Reacher debuted in 2022 and he will appear in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare later this year. But will all of this talent and success, we still have not seen Ritchson’s ballet skills. Were all of those ballet lessons for nothing?? He better use those moves in Reacher season three.

(Via People)

The punches just keep on coming for Amazon’s remake of Road House. The film already had an uphill battle by attempting to recreate the cult classic starring Patrick Swayze as the effortlessly cool bouncer Dalton. This time around, Jake Gyllenhaal takes over the role and just getting the film released has been an all-out brawl.

According to a new lawsuit, original Road House screenwriter R. Lance Hill had a copyright claim to the franchise that Amazon allegedly ignored. In 2021, Hill had filed a petition to have the rights revert back to him in November 2023 when United Artist’s claim to the property expired. However, Amazon allegedly scrambled to get the Road House remake finished before the November deadline by using AI to replicate the voices of the film’s leads to skirt around the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike.

According to Hill’s lawsuit, that plan didn’t work and the film wasn’t finished until January, well past the deadline. But the alleged use of AI is sure to raise eyebrows.

Via Los Angeles Times:

The lawsuit also alleged that the use of AI to simulate actors’ voices violated provisions in collective bargaining agreements between the major studios, including Amazon, and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, as well as the studio alliance contract with the Directors Guild of America.

Hill’s lawsuit is seeking to block the distribution of the Road House remake, which is already embroiled in an internal battle over its release strategy. Director Doug Liman has boycotted the film’s SXSW release after Amazon refused to give Road House a theatrical release despite Liman and Gyllenhaal making a direct plea to Jeff Bezos. Liman wrote a passionate op-ed decrying Amazon for streaming the film and essentially using it to sell “plumbing fixtures.”

However, a Variety report painted a different picture. According to sources, Liman and Gyllenhaal were offered a higher budget if the film was released on streaming, and well, they took the money. Gyllenhaal recently corroborated that report by confirming Total Film that Road House was made to be a streaming film, and Amazon was “always clear” on that.

In theory, Road House starts streaming March 21 on Prime Video.

(Via Los Angeles Times)

The evolution of language is fascinating, and the etymology of specific words can be a fun little trip through human history as well as human creativity.

Many English words are derived from Greek and Latin, but other European languages make up a good chunk of our language as well. The roots of some words can surprise us, and so can the way certain words came to be. And in some cases, what we don’t know can be just as surprising as what we do.

Enjoy diving into the history of 15 words we use every day.

1. Dog

Dog is often one of the first words babies learn to say, and it’s one of the first kids learn to spell. But don’t let its simplicity fool you. This word is truly a mystery.

The word “dog” comes from dogca, a very rarely used Old English word, but how we started using it as our everyday name for canines, no one knows. “Its origin remains one of the great mysteries of English etymology,” according to the Online Etymology Dictionary.

Even more interestingly, no one knows the origins of the Spanish word for “dog” (“perro”), nor do they know the origins of the Polish (“pies”) or Serbo-Croatian (“pas”) words for our canine friends, either. Who knew dogs were so enigmatic?

2. Nightmare

It’s obvious where “night” comes from in “nightmare,” but what about “mare”? Surely, were not referring to a female horse here.

Horse, no. But female, yes. Female goblin, to be precise. In Old English, mare means “incubus, nightmare, monster; witch, sorcerer.” And “nightmare” started being used around 1300 to refer to “an evil female spirit afflicting men (or horses) in their sleep with a feeling of suffocation.” Yikes. Thankfully, now it’s just any old bad dream.

3. Jumbo

We’ve all seen animals named for words with certain meanings, but here we have the opposite. The word “jumbo” came from a large elephant who lived at the London Zoo. Zookeeper Anoshan Anathjeysari named him “Jumbe,” the Swahili word for “chief.” But his status as one of the largest African bush elephants in Europe in the 19th century caused his nickname, Jumbo, to become synonymous with enormousness.

4. Muscle

The Latin word musculus means “little mouse.” As hilarious as it sounds, they thought the movement of muscles looked like little mice scurrying under the skin, hence the origin. Kinda ick to think about, but also logical, so here we are.

5. Quarantine

Ah, a word with which we are all familiar, thanks to COVID-19. But do we know what it really means?

If you understand roots, you may guess that “quar” might have something to do with the number four, and you’d be right. In Latin, quadraginta means a period of 40 days. Our usage of “quarantine” to mean isolation from others comes from the Venetian policy of ships coming into port from plague-stricken countries in the late 1300s to remain in port for 40 days before letting people off. The usage to mean any period of time in isolation began being used in the 1600s.

6. Mortgage

Most of us grow up not really understanding what a mortgage is until we buy our first house, but even then, most of us don’t know what the word literally means. It comes from Old French, mort gaige, literally meaning “death pledge.”

HAHAHAHAHA. Death pledge. Mortgage. That’s funny.

However, it doesn’t mean you’re tied to the debt til you die, even if it feels like it. The death part means the deal dies either when you pay it off or when you become unable to pay. Doesn’t really change the fact that it feels a bit like you’re signing your life away when you buy a house, though.

7. Clue

Oddly enough, “clue” comes from a misspelling (or alternate spelling from before standardized spelling was a thing) of the word “clew,” meaning a ball of yarn.

The word itself comes from German, but its usage points to the Greek myth in which Ariadne gives Theseus a ball (or clew) of yarn to help him escape the labyrinth. Now we use it to refer to anything that helps us solve a mystery.

8. Nice

The word “nice” is nice and simple, right? It’s the most basic word we use for “pleasant,” a definitively positive word. But this seemingly simple word has been through quite the trek in its etymology.

From the Latin nescius, meaning “ignorant, unaware,” it was used to mean “timid” or”faint-hearted” before the year 1300. A couple hundred years later, it had morphed to “fussy, fastidious” or “dainty, delicate.” In another 100 years, it changed to “precise, careful.” Tack on another few hundred years and we’re at “agreeable, delightful,” and from there it was only short jaunt to “kind, thoughtful.”

What a nice journey from insult to compliment.

9. Shampoo

I would have bet money that the word “shampoo” was French in origin, but nope. It’s Hindi, coming from the term champo, and the original meaning was “to massage, rub and percuss the surface of (the body) to restore tone and vigor.” It’s only been used to refer specifically to lathering and washing out strands of hair or carpet since the mid 1800s.

10. Torpedo

Literally Latin for a stingray. As in the marine animal. That comes from the root word torpere, which means “be numb,” since a ray’s sting can numb you. It doesn’t become the word for a propelled underwater explosive until the last couple hundred years.

11. Ambidextrous

We know that left-handedness was seen negatively throughout much of human history, but even the word that means “able to use both hands equally” has a right-handed bias baked into it. The medieval Latin ambidexter literally meansliterally means “right-handed on both sides.”

Isn’t English fun?

Parents want to do right by their kids. Make them feel special, let them have fun and give them opportunities to enjoy magic before adulthood sets in. And yet, that desire can easily be suppressed by the need to keep up with the lavish events constantly seen on social media.

For many families, over-the-top activities are simply not feasible—especially ones that come year after year like birthdays. So many are going against societal expectations and instead choosing traditions that work for their unique situation. Opting for experiences over expensive gifts, for example, or having one-on-one family time instead of parties with friends.

For Marissa Light, it looks a little more like not even doing a birthday party every year.

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“Under no circumstances will I be throwing my daughter a birthday party every single year,” Light said in a now-viral TikTok video. “Here’s the deal: She is getting a first birthday party, she is getting a Sweet Sixteen and she is getting a graduation party. Other than that, she is not getting any more birthday parties.”

And perhaps Light isn’t totally off-base in her reasoning. According to PBS, kids don’t even remember birthday parties until after they are three-years-old. That’s essentially $400 (the average amount parents spend on their kid’s party) going towards a core memory that won’t even exist.

Light went on to say that she had been to other kids’ parties which were “not enjoyable” and she didn’t want to force that experience on others unnecessarily. That being said, she added, “Now look, if you are someone who genuinely enjoys throwing your child a birthday party, pop off, Queen. Do what you want to do. I’m not telling anyone else how to live their lives. I just personally don’t find it necessary and I’m not going to be doing it.”

@marissalight It’s been a minute since I’ve given you a #hotmomtake … you’re welcome. #babybirthdayparty #momsoftiktok #momtok #firsttimemom #sahm #momcontent #millenialmom #birthdayparty ♬ original sound – Marissa | Lifestyle | SAHM

But that doesn’t mean that no celebrations will be had. The family will still have “dinner and cake with them every single year,” plus their daughter would get an ‘All About You’ day” where she would enjoy a “special breakfast” and activities of her choosing, like princess dress up, a trip to the trampoline park, etc. And when siblings come, Light’s daughter will be able to choose whether or not she wants them included in whatever birthday shenanigans are happening. So all in all, a pretty sweet deal.

This option just feels more exciting and less taxing, Light explains. While she understands that party planning is some people’s jam, she admits “it’s a lot of stress on my part to organize and plan and put on the party… I just don’t want a bunch of people sitting around at my house all day.”

Light’s video, as most parenting videos are wont to do, drew both heavy praise and criticism.

Many thought that her choices were depriving her daughter, and not really prioritizing her happiness. This was especially true for adults who didn’t have parties growing up.

“As someone who didn’t get birthday parties, please do that for your kid,” one person wrote.

Another added, “I never had bday parties growing up, and I was always jealous of kids in my class who got them.”

Still, others found promise in the idea.

““An introverted kid will love this. Just make sure that you’re celebrating that kid the way they’d like. Not the way you want to celebrate them,” one person commented.

“I LOVE the idea of experiences, so if they want to go to a show or an amusement park for their birthday.”

Some even offered up their own unconventional non-party ideas. One parent wrote, “I just bring my kids to the park with a bunch of cupcakes and any kid at the park is included.”

Whether you can or cannot get behind Light’s take on birthday parties, we can probably all agree that our energy is often best spent doing things we truly want to do. Maybe some parents will still want to arrange a get together for their friends every year. But hopefully this conversation can at least offer some permission to do so in a way that doesn’t take a huge toll. There are so many ways to make a birthday special, after all.

Have you ever seen something in a movie or online and thought, “That’s totally fake,” only to find out it’s absolutely a real thing? That’s sort of how this house in Pennsylvania comes across. It just seems too fantastical to be real, and yet somehow it actually exists.

The home sits between Greencastle and Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and houses a pretty unique public secret. There’s a cave in the basement. Not a man cave or a basement that makes you feel like you’re in a cave, but an actual cave that you can’t get to unless you go through the house.

Turns out the cave was discovered in the 1830s on the land of John Coffey, according to Uncovering PA, but the story of how it was found is unclear. People would climb down into the cave to explore occasionally until the land was leased about 100 years later and a small structure was built over the cave opening.

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The idea was to make it accessible to visitors and use the cave as a tourist attraction, and the small structure was eventually built into a two-story house. But it was closed to the public in 1954 after the land was purchased for limestone mining and it remained closed for nearly 70 years. (In the words of Stephanie Tanner, “How rude.”) Sometime during that 70-year closure, the home that contains the cave was purchased by Dara Black, and in 2021, it reopened to the public.

Currently, the home is occupied by Black, but to gain access to the cave you can simply book a tour. The best part about booking a tour is that you only have to make a donation to enter. It’s a pay-what-you-can sort of setup, but since someone actually lives in the home, you can’t just pop in and ask for a tour. You have to go during the “open house” times available.

According to the Black-Coffey Caverns Facebook page, they treat the tours truly as an open house, complete with snacks and drinks. There’s a waiting room area where people can chat and eat their snacks while they wait for the tour to start. They also offer cave yoga once a month. According to Uncovering PA, the tour takes about 45 minutes to complete and there are about 3,000 feet worth of passageways.

Imagine living on top of a cave and just taking strangers on a waltz under your floorboards essentially. It makes me wonder if the house is quiet at night or if you can hear echoes of the cave sounds while you’re trying to sleep. From the Facebook page, it appears that the cave doesn’t have any lights, but there were pictures with some Christmas lights mounted to the cave walls. Otherwise, you have to use flashlights.

Hopefully, no mischievous children decide to play hide and seek or you just might have to call in a rescue crew. Literally. But what an unbelievable “pics or it didn’t happen” kind of story to tell. It’s not every day you run into someone that has a door that leads you to an underground cave.

If you want to see what a cave tour looks like starting from the outside of the house, check out the video below:

This article originally appeared on 1.30.23

The idea of predicting the future has been the subject of countless books, movies and televisions shows (and is basically the basis of all gambling). Outside of a few uncanny instances, no one can tell exactly what the future holds, especially for the world at large. But people sure love to predict it anyway.

The BBC shared a video compilation of kids in 1966 sharing what they imagine the year 2000 would be like, and their predictions are fascinating. After five or six kids share, it becomes clear what some of the most pressing concerns of the 1960s were. Some kids thought we’d have bombed ourselves into oblivion. Others believed we’d be so overpopulated we would be packed like sardines and wouldn’t be able to build houses anymore.

Not all of the predictions were so dark. Some kids had some hilarious predictions about cabbage pills and robots. Others thought we’d have better cures for diseases and less segregation among the races, which we have.

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Watch what these young folks envisioned nearly 40 years into their future—now more than 20 years into our past:

Thankfully, the year 2000 wasn’t as dire as many of these kids imagined it would be. In fact, hearing these predictions might even make us feel pretty good about how humanity has fared in the past 60 years.

How about the kid predicting the future of automation? Or the kid who said people would be regarded more as statistics than people? Or the one who predicted animals being kept in buildings instead of grazing so they could produce more?

And hey, props to the kids who didn’t predict an overpopulated nuclear hellscape. It can be hard to see negative news and not think the world is on a downward spiral. But if nothing else, seeing that these kids’ doom and gloom predictions didn’t come true is pretty heartening and a good sign that our own future may not be as dark as it sometimes appears.

This article originally appeared on 12.7.23

This week, Schoolboy Q will release his first full-length album since 2019’s Crash Talk. The Top Dawg Entertainment OG has spent a few years out of the limelight enjoying fatherhood and working on his golf game, but this Friday (March 1) he’s dropping Blue Lips after spending much of the month promoting it. After announcing the album’s release date to begin the month, Q spent the next three weeks releasing new tracks to showcase its direction, including “Back In Love” and “Blueslides,” the defiant “Yeern 101,” “Cooties,” and “Lovebirds.” featuring Devin Malik and Lance Skiiiwalker.

Release Date

Blue Lips is out 3/1 via Top Dawg Entertainment/Interscope. Find more information here.

Tracklist

1. “Funny Guy”
2. “Pop” Feat. Rico Nasty
3. “Thank God 4 Me”
4. “Time Killers”
5. “Yeern 101”
6. “Cooties”
7. “Movie”
8. “Ohio”
9. “Nu Nu”
10. “Blueslides”
11. “Love Birds” Feat. Devin Malik and Lance Skiiiwalker
12. “Lost Times”
13. “First”
14. “Germany ’86”
15. “Foux” Feat. Ab-Soul
16. “Pig Feet”
17. “Smile”

Singles

To date, the only official single is “Yeern 101,” but Q has released teasers for “Back N Love,” “Blueslides,” “Cooties,” and “Love Birds.”

Features

Blue Lips will feature AZ Chike on “Movie,” Jozzy on “Lost Times,” Freddie Gibbs on “Ohio,” Childish Major on “Pig Fee,” Rico Nasty on “Pop,” Ab-Soul on “Foux,” and Devin Malik and Lance Skiiiwalker on “Love Birds.”

Artwork

Tour

Schoolboy Q hasn’t announced a tour for Blue Lips as yet, but if he does plan to do so, it could be after the album rollout is complete.