Book of the dayScience and nature booksReviewThis readable study by Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski attempts to measure the influence of mortal terror on human affairs Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death (1973) made the striking claim that human activity is driven largely by unconscious efforts to deny and transcend mortality. “We build character and culture in order to shield ourselves from the devastating awareness of underlying helplessness and terror of our inevitable death,” observed Becker.

Jimmy Donaldson, or as he is more famously known as MrBeast, is back with another challenge. And this time, the sensational YouTuber is giving his fans a chance to you can win an entire chocolate factory. As insane as it sounds, it’s true. After all, it’s YouTube king we are talking about. MrBeast has recently launched Feastables, a chocolate brand that is better for you as it is made with no artificial flavors.

Today marks the tenth anniversary of Mean Girls, and tragically, fetch still isn’t in the OED. Yet all these years later, we still care deeply, probably too deeply, about the film’s characters (the actor who played Damian just came out … in a letter to Damian!). A decade later, what do we think our old friends at North Shore High School might be doing with their lives? Grab a drink ticket and step back into that crepe-papered gym, because it’s reunion time.