NAPA VALLEY, Calif. — My daughter gave me a wonderful scented geranium (Pelargonium graveolens) for Mother’s Day several years ago. It flourishes on my side porch, and I repot it regularly. I like it so much that I have rooted sprigs of the plant and given them as gifts. These new plants are clones of the parent geranium, genetically identical to it. I do my homestyle cloning the lazy way. I snip off a leafy stem, stick it into a jar of water and wait for roots to appear.

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. I put a fun little quip here, but it linked out to a Twitter image, a feature that Elon Musk managed to break in the 30 minutes between then and now. —Kate I was twelve years old when I first saw the 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. I would go on to watch it roughly every night for the next six years.

In 2021, according to Nielsen, one show was the most streamed in the US within the Black community (6.8 billion minutes), the Hispanic community (8.8 billion minutes), and the Asian community (2.1 billion minutes). It was also the second most streamed show in the country, with approximately 33.2 billion minutes of viewing. The name of the show? Not Squid Game, not Lucifer, not You. It was Me. It was Cocomelon. A show for toddlers.

At 58 I’m not supposed to still be ashamed of where I went to college. But I’ve carried that with me my entire career, and last week someone made a sneering comment on X/Twitter that validated my feelings. In response to Joshua Benton’s February 28th Nieman Lab article, “Is The New York Times’ newsroom just a bunch of Ivy Leaguers? (Kinda, sorta.),” I saw someone tweet the screenshot below—a collection of schools that the fewest in the Times newsroom attended—and remark in their tweet how surprised they were that anyone at the Times had gone to any SUNY school.

There’s no doubt that there are several therapy techniques many of us are familiar with and there are some we aren’t. I can bet that many of us are conversant with cognitive behavioral therapy even those who aren’t therapist know this. However, there are several other techniques that we may have experienced and not know or we don’t even know about at all. One of such is The Confrontation or Attack Therapy technique.