Sandy Hingston

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Millennials! Get Over Your Blankies and Stuffed Animals and Grow Up Already!

Just as I become a grandma, my kids’ generation is regressing into infancy.

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Best Thing This Week: The Great State Amphibian Debate

All hail the Pennsylvania snot otter!

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Best Thing This Week: Just Say No-Gurt!

How many kinds of fermented milk does this world really need?

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Best Thing This Week: It’s Bryce Harper’s World

Did anyone ever have a better week than he did?

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Best Thing This Week: Philly Phans’ Phear Phactor

Guess who’s scared to play our Eagles?

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Best Thing: A Bird-Flipping Hero For Our Times

Debra L. Cruise-Gulyas, we salute you. And you too, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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How King of Prussia, Camden, and 23 Other Philly-Area Towns Got Their Names

Your guide to the local figures and businesses that got their names on the map.

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Use Your Freaking Turn Signal, You Jerk!

Philly only came in second in this poll. Thank God.

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Best Thing: A Beer Hall… With a Playground!

Be careful on the pirate ship with that pilsner.

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Best Thing: Trump’s Report Card Threats

How bad could those Penn grades have been?

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Can the New Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics Unlock the Science of Beauty?

Neuroscientist Anjan Chatterjee is trying to figure out why we give a damn about Mona Lisa’s smile.

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Best Thing: Small Dogs Go to La Salle

What, making the dean’s list isn’t responsibility enough?

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Best Thing: OMG, the Zoo Key’s Back!

They were magic. They were power. They were so, so cool. Now, they’re returning.

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Best Thing This Week: Putting the Cheese Back in American “Cheese”

Make American “cheese” cheese again!

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Best Thing This Week: There’s a Roomba Lawnmower!

Suburbia will never be the same.