In April 2022, Panera Bread launched a new set of products as part of a company rebrand. Among those was an innocuous beverage called “charged lemonade” that came in multiple flavor variants: blood orange, strawberry lemon mint, and mango yuzu citrus. Traditional lemonade, made from lemons, sugar, and water, is naturally caffeine free. A large serving of Panera’s charged lemonade … Continue Reading →

Generation Z, born between the mid 1990s and early 2010s, is coming of age during a time of changing attitudes towards cannabis use. Over the past decade, 24 states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws that legalize and regulate recreational cannabis use among adults. The stigma around cannabis is disappearing also, with 43% of members of Generation Z … Continue Reading →

Missed the first article in our Deepfakes and Democracy series? Click here to read Danny Nickel’s take on the current use of deepfakes in American politics.      False information on social media has already taken its toll on American democracy, affecting the previous 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more sophisticated and available to the … Continue Reading →