Ivy Digest
Work hard so you’re ready when luck happens
I am incompetent in the kitchen and I detest cooking. It’s just too much work if I have to use a knife. I live by my signature three-step meal: open the frozen food, put it […]
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Books
Made in Asian America revives a forgotten history
I’ve never liked history because it’s old and boring. And I could never relate to a far-off land like America, even though they colonized the Philippines for 50 years. I love indexes, so I quickly […]
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Whoopi’s memoir is an homage to her exceptional mom
Bits and Pieces – My mother, my brother, and meBy Whoopi GoldbergHardcover, 247 pages, 2024.Black Stone Publishinghttps://amzn.to/3ADwCeo Who doesn’t know Whoopi Goldberg? She is as unforgettable as her stage name. I first saw Whoopi in […]
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US Cities with a Soda Tax show lower BMI in youth and obese
A new study found that four California cities that adopted a soda tax saw a significant decrease in Body Mass Index (BMI). BMI is used by doctors to measure the amount of body fat. The […]
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Number of Black and Asian authors tripled from 2016
2024 books by Black and Asian authors Book publishing has always been white. But the last five years showed a dramatic surge of books whose creators, characters, or topics were people of color. In a […]