Grumpy have announced their debut LP, Unfindable Ring. It will be released on October 23 via Bayonet, following two EPs for the label, 2024’s Wolfed and 2025’s Piebald. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘OBL’, which you can check out below.
“Touring across the country as a band full of trans people, we often worry about how we will be received, and sometimes wonder if we will be safe,” bandleader Heaven Schmitt said of the new track. “But what we usually find is love. We protect each other and laugh and live our normal lives. OBL is about how we experience joy (‘I’m so happy I could die’) despite those who don’t want us to be able to exist (‘they’re so happy we could die’).”
Of the accompanying video, they added: “We keep inadvertently making music videos, like ‘Crush’, ‘Rice’, ‘Bird Parts’, and now ‘OBL’—where I (Heaven) end up playing some kind of creep: lurking, staring, following people, usually the other members of Grumpy, many of whom are trans. It wasn’t intentional at first, but with ‘OBL’ it finally felt obvious why that character keeps showing up. We often wonder in real life; is the guy at the gas station staring because we’re trans? Is that disgust on his face? Confusion? We don’t usually get to know the answer. We’re left to wonder and go on experiencing joy and tenderness between us.”
Babehoven – the Hudson, NY-based project of singer-songwriter Maya Bon and producer and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Albert – have shared a new single, ‘Three Reds’. It’s the latest offering from their forthcoming album I See Them, I See Me, which arrives September 18 via Double Double Whammy. Check it out below.
“‘Three Reds’ is inspired by a game we play on tour — we gain points by counting cars of the same color passing by,” Bon explained in a statement. “The song plays with synesthesia and the tension between concealment and exposure, sitting with the idea that we are made of the same stuff as everything that came before us, and how that can feel like both a warning and a celebration at the same time.”
Sleep comes up at least half a dozen times on Lost Weekend. Phoebe Bridgers daydreams about sleeping; talks in her sleep; fakes sleep, which is nothing new. But one of the most gut-wrenching moments on her first album in six years arrives when she finds herself walking early in the morning, awake before her significant other. “I don’t know why I’m crying/ Until we’re dead or die trying,” she sings. We know why we get into and out of bed; we have to. Why tears well up in our eyes is harder to rationalize, but there’s a reason “crying” is the first word on the album, and Bridgers keeps stirring us to the edge of it, just as she’s forced to reckon with our proximity to death. With Ethan Gruska, Jack Antonoff, Tony Berg, and Alex G splitting production duties alongside her, it is by far her dreamiest album, a miracle of sound design and imaginative world-building. In a way, these are songs she wrote while hiding off from the world, sleeping in, with “too much money and nothing to lose.” But they are also the mark of a great songwriter who, in grief and in love, wakes to the double-edged sword of existing unalone, and can’t help but brave through the thought of oblivion: forthrightly, ambitiously, and right before our eyes.
1. The Outside
As if searching for a hidden frequency in pitch-dark space, ambient synths flatline for the first twenty seconds: we could be catching alien feedback, time traveling, or simply closing our eyes to the hum of a hospital room. Most realistically, though, we are in the middle of a funeral, the vocoder betraying a flash of dissociation (and a bit of influence from her partner, Bo Burnham, who accompanies her on vocals). “One more time for old time’s sake/ I’ll watch him get carried away,” she sings, letting the double entendre take her back in time, to a violent domestic scene that left her frozen in place, and then forward, to a concert where strangers kept her suspended in the air for what seemed like an eternity. “But I was on the outside, watching,” she repeats, yet something about the realization clears up her voice, gorgeous over Ethan Gruska’s unfurling piano and Rob Moose’s string arrangement. Raw emotion, synths fully in the rearview.
2. Lost Boys
An obvious single, ‘Lost Boys’ remains the sprightliest and most anthemic song in the context of the album, an exercise in flooding a song with intricate production while maximising its radio-friendliness; ‘Kyoto’ sounds simplistic (if still superior) by comparison. But Bridgers counters accessibility by rendering it the most lyrically ambiguous song on the record, opening it up to interpretation in ways that help frame the entire album – “Weightless but not scared” is basically an extension of the feeling on ‘The Outside’. You can hear it echo throughout Lost Weekend.
3. Kill Me
Bridgers zooms out, dodges the first person (“Times are scary”), and sinks her voice low and reverberant, a stark contrast to yet emotionally reminiscent of the Killer EP over a decade ago. This time, she sets the scene plainly (“Costume party/ When the veil was thinning”) and the plot moves fast: “He kissed me hello/ He tastes like a flower with chemical petals/ Bobby, you taught me that I know nothing.” (Ethan Gruska and Jack Antonoff are both credited with sound design, but none of their contributions overburden the arrangement; you have to lean in to hear the rustling percussion evoking the kiss.) If Lost Weekend is the Kid A to Punisher’s OK Computer, this is Bridgers’ ‘How to Disappear Completely’, and it makes sense that someone who indisputably sounds like Cameron Winter would be her Thom Yorke, referencing the case of a man who was found dead on a beach, dressed in a suit, with a scrap of paper in his pocket that read “Finished” in Persian. So the song – the longest on the album – cuts off abruptly, at the peak of its drama.
4. The Governor’s Waltz
With Christian Lee Hutson’s fingerpicked guitar and mandocello taking center stage, ‘The Governor’s Waltz’ hews close to the sound of his Bridgers-produced albums, while Alex G brings his We’re All Going to the World’s Fair ghostliness to the funhouse. Caroline Shaw’s vocals may be otherworldly, but Bridgers’ lyrics don’t leave much to the imagination, relaying the demise of a relationship in plain, if still playful, language. Someone had the fine idea to inject the echo of a dance beat as she sings of “dancing ourselves clean late New Year’s Eve,” before landing one of the album’s stingiest punchlines: “You deserved better, you wanted me.” And what does she want?
5. Bobby
The album pummels back to life with ‘Bobby’, and Alex G’s conspicuous absence is filled out by Antonoff’s banjo and head-spinning synths – not to mention electric guitar, which Jesu and Mike Kinsella also, astoundingly, supply on the same song. It’s a dizzying rush of infatuation that spins the portentous “end” in a positive light, cushioned by Burnham’s baritone and Shaw’s viola. “We’ve got stars on the ceiling and clothes on the floor/ And a thing in a box I don’t fuck anymore,” Bridgers sings. It’d be as radio-friendly as ‘Lost Boys’ if it didn’t end in a minute-long puddle of synths, like falling asleep to the light at the end of the tunnel.
6. Lost Weekend
The title track strips everything down to Bridgers’ voice and a droning church organ, mostly, with tender flourishes filling in the cracks of her vulnerability, palpable in her confession that “I had the thought you would outlive me/ I loved you, and you couldn’t forgive me for that,” or the more headline-grabbing “I’m supposed to be married, but I called it off.” What sounds at first like Bridgers giving herself some breathing room, steadying herself in a moment of upheaval, turns into an uplifting swirl of production – as soon as she runs out of words, the sky seems to open up and steal every string instrument from the musicians’ hands, streaking the clouds.
7. Haunted
And so we find Bridgers traveling above ground, fighting insomnia with painkillers and a streak of hope for the future. “I have no secrets, only feelings/ And I know those go away,” she sings, or at least she can escape the house that’s definitely not haunted by going on the road again. “I am not afraid,” she once again declares, but this time it’s a feeling that leads, not a clarifying sentence. It’s a country song complete with pedal steel courtesy of Greg Leisz, but its sense of propulsion is extra-human; three different people contribute drum programming, and it somehow works in carrying Bridgers away. Of course, it helps that her boygenius bandmates are right there beside her.
8. Panorama
The sky is once again Bridgers’ canvas, and for two whole minutes ‘Panorama’ revels in a kaleidoscopic array of strings, horns, and synths before settling into Ethan Gruska’s woozy piano. Checking in after a long trip, the singer is spent, and the hint of vocoder gives something away, pushing her unfiltered self, like a drink, further on the outside.
9. Still Standing
In the most delicately hushed voice, Bridgers returns to the violent incident alluded in the opening track, trying to make sense of the details still etched in her memory. How to reconcile the empathy and gratitude she feels in the wake of her father’s death with the indifference she’d grown accustomed to, a defence mechanism. Maybe she recognizes her own need to escape, as conveyed in ‘Haunted’, when she sings, “You left your suitcase by the bed/ Like you needed to know you could go whenever you wanted.” There are gaps and in her memory as well as her imagination, and when she tells herself it wasn’t so bad, “in a way” is doing a lot of the heavy lifting. It’s one of Bridgers’ most devastatingly conflicted songs, and all the more resonant for it.
10. Liberty Tree
It makes sense to follow ‘Still Standing’ with a joyfully carefree song about acting a little reckless in an abandoned mall and running through the airport; to have some fun while putting herself in the shoes of her child self, if you want to get psychoanalytical about it. “You were made in the image of god/ But you look like your mom/ In this picture of us,” she sings, giving Burnham a run for his comedic money, before landing on a crushingly sincere note: “Don’t die, Bobby/ Before I die/ It feels so good to have you in my life.” Instead of ending right there, the song balloons back into its cosmic melody, if only for a moment.
11. Never Going Back!
Bridgers repeats “The way it used to be is not the way it is” like a triumphant mantra, warm enough to huddle around the campfire. She even lets out a euphoric scream before the instrumentation is reduced to a simmer, making way for a sobering voice message from her dad. “I know you’re busy. Being a rock star takes up a lot of your time, I imagine,” he says, words strung with guilt after she’s basically boasted about all the other things she can do with it. After ‘Standing Still’, you wonder if this could really be the same person haunting Lost Weekend, and ‘Never Going Back!’ sounds like Bridgers wondering the same thing. “The past is looking brighter all the time,” perhaps, and yet it can’t be changed.
12. Other Plans
There’s a sadness reverberating through ‘Other Plans’, but the least decorated song on the album goes to show that love is only as simple as succumbing to fate, even against one’s best instincts: a beautiful, helpless feeling.
13. Lost Parade
A distorted memory or a twisted future? ‘Lost Parade’ offers some much-needed pause before the record’s breathless final stretch.
14. I Can’t Wait
‘I Can’t Wait’ might be Lost Weekend’s crown jewel, a bid to let life drag on in misty reverie, leaving the past behind. It’s a gradual liftoff, and with the return of “Son-John Johnson,” as the voice that now sounds even more like Cameron Winter is credited, a big payoff. “All my life/ Side by side/ Hyde Jekyll Hyde/ Finally together,” they sing in curious harmony, and there’s Conor Oberst peeking through with a harmonica. The credits may be rolling, but this is not the end; it feels like a satisfied yawn before the world stirs up.
15. As Above
The old Hermetic axiom that gives the song its title suggests that all life dissolves into what the occultist Helena P. Blavatsky described as an “etherealized astral planet,” which might as well be where the album is set. The acceptance of death’s reality and the possibilities of a new life coalesce in climactic fashion; the emotional rollercoaster leaves Bridgers wildly defiant, mustering all her strength to proclaim: “You won’t have to believe in magic/ Leave it to me, and I’ll make it happen.” Unlike Punisher’s epic resolution, the instrumentation seems to be working against her – shrinking, fading, highlighting the strain in her voice, the futility; and the magic.
16. Lost Weekend (Reprise)
The album grants itself a smooth landing, Bridgers’ voice clear and sober, even if the distant, wailing chorus of ‘Kyoto’ inevitably comes to mind as she resolves, “When a dream comes true, a fantasy dies.” Just like the reprised melody bears traces of ‘Graceland Too’, except there’s no moon to stare at, no stars in the sky – only on the bedroom ceiling, and if you’re lucky enough, one of 40 planetariums around the globe. It may not be as poetic or fantastical, but Bridgers doesn’t make it sound so bad, this earthly plane. In a way, there’s no universe where Lost Weekend could be any better.
“Actors should never judge their characters.” For NYC-based actor Vaibhav Taparia, the line is more than an acting philosophy. It is the foundation of how he approaches a character, whether he is performing on stage or in front of a camera. His work often gravitates toward complicated people whose choices are difficult to defend but whose emotional lives are impossible to dismiss. “Perhaps the most complicated thing, morally, is to relate to difficult characters. To play a rotten guy, someone very far from me,” Taparia says. That instinct to understand rather than judge has shaped a career that spans classical theatre, new work and an increasingly active slate of independent film. His training on stage has given him a rigorous approach to character construction, while his recent screen work has pushed him toward a different kind of performance, one built around restraint, physical detail and the smallest emotional shifts.
In Rajiv Joseph’s Guards at the Taj, produced by NextStop Theatre in Virginia, Taparia played Humayun, a young imperial guard confronted with an order of almost unimaginable brutality. Opposite Vish Shukla, he carried a ninety-minute story that moves from friendship and comedy into trauma and moral devastation. “The challenge in playing Humayun is not making him likable. It is making him understandable,” Taparia says.
To find that understanding, he looked beneath Humayun’s obedience and searched for the fears driving it: fear of his father, fear of authority and fear of losing the structure that has taught him how to survive. The performance reveals the vulnerable man beneath the uniform without excusing the choices he makes. That process of building a character from the inside out has become a throughline in Taparia’s work.
His recent theatre work includes the world premiere of Dakota Silvey’s Flaco at the International Human Rights Art Festival in New York, where he played a complex activist in the one-person show, as well as Stephan Morrow’s futuristic Cyrano reimagining, The Story of Sal B. and Barbranne: A Mob Fantasia, at Theater for the New City. The projects have allowed him to move between classical material, contemporary drama and experimental work, while developing the psychological approach that now informs his screen performances. “Each format asks for a different kind of listening,” he says. “A full production allows behavior to accumulate across weeks of rehearsal and repeated performances. A staged reading requires immediate choices without hiding behind elaborate design.”
But film has introduced another kind of discipline.
For Taparia, the camera demands that the actor translate the same psychological depth into much smaller gestures. There is no sustained stage performance to carry the audience from one emotional beat to the next. Instead, the character might be built through a look, a pause or a subtle change in physical behavior that the camera can capture in close-up.
His recent short film Shiela, directed by Sachin Narain, puts that approach to the test. The atmospheric independent film follows a man consumed by the memory of a woman named Shiela. What initially appears to be an ordinary encounter at a roadside establishment gradually becomes something more unsettling as the protagonist travels through desolate roads and suburban landscapes searching for her. The film ultimately arrives at Johannesburg Cemetery, where he discovers Shiela Higginson’s grave, revealing the reality that has been driving his increasingly obsessive journey.
Narain tells the story through atmosphere rather than exposition. Tight, claustrophobic shots inside the protagonist’s vehicle contrast with expansive aerial images of empty roads, suburban sprawl and the cemetery. A cracked windshield repeatedly distorts the world around him, functioning as a visual metaphor for his fractured perception and unresolved trauma. Taparia anchors that visual language with a restrained performance. Rather than explaining the character’s grief, he allows it to register through behavior and presence. The result is a performance that has to communicate a great deal while saying relatively little. The production itself presented significant challenges. “We shot this in winter, so it was freezing during the outside shots,” Taparia recalls. The cold was compounded by the limited daylight. With the sun setting early, the production had a narrow window in which to capture the necessary exterior shots while maintaining the correct lighting and continuity. The cemetery sequence added another logistical challenge. Narain wanted authenticity, so the production chose to film in an actual graveyard rather than recreate one. Securing the necessary permit was a difficult process, but it allowed the filmmakers to preserve the realism that is central to the film’s atmosphere.T hat authenticity becomes particularly important in the film’s final movement. The cemetery is not simply a backdrop for the revelation. It becomes an extension of the protagonist’s psychological state, giving physical form to the grief and denial that have driven the story.
The experience also reinforced what Taparia sees as the difference between performing for a live audience and working for a camera. “Film acting is more technical in a way,” he says. “So much of it is continuity, not looking at the lens, micro-moments.” He encountered that challenge directly in Insurrection, a film centered on the 2021 South African riots. Taparia plays a shopkeeper whose business, built over years, is looted and destroyed. The role required him to portray the character at different ages and emotional stages, moving from a bright-eyed and hopeful younger man to someone whose optimism has gradually been worn down by life, before finally reaching the point where the destruction of his store wipes out what remains of his hope.
The production required considerable attention to continuity. Scenes of the looting were filmed from different angles, meaning the shop had to be repeatedly reset while Taparia recreated the same movements and physical interactions. For the actor, the technical demands became part of the creative challenge. “What also made it tough was that I had to play the character younger and older,” he says. “To move from this bright-eyed, hopeful man to one who has struggled through life, and his hope has been dimmed a bit due to life, but then to it being completely wiped out once his shop has been destroyed.” The role gave him an opportunity to explore something he finds particularly compelling about screen acting: how an actor can communicate an entire history without necessarily verbalizing it.
That sensibility connects Insurrection with Shiela. One character loses his livelihood; the other is unable to accept the loss of a person. Both are stories about ordinary people whose internal worlds are transformed by experiences they cannot undo. Taparia is drawn to precisely those kinds of stories. “These are my favorite kind of projects,” he says. “I look to tell depth-driven stories through the lens of everyday people.”
That philosophy extends beyond the projects themselves to his broader approach to the profession. For Taparia, versatility is not simply about being able to move between genres or mediums. It is about making strong, specific choices and finding the emotional logic that connects a character’s behavior to their history “Ultimately, this is how the audience is also going to connect to the character, whether this is in a Broadway house or a movie theatre screen.”
That connection between stage and screen is increasingly shaping the next chapter of his career. Theatre has taught Taparia how to sustain a character’s journey, while film has challenged him to compress that journey into precise, often almost imperceptible moments.
His upcoming screen project Gravitas, made alongside fellow South Asian creatives, continues that movement toward film and expands his work with a new generation of filmmakers and performers.
For now, Taparia has no intention of choosing between the mediums. The scale may change, the technique may change and the relationship with the audience may change, but his central question remains consistent.
What does this person want? What stands in their way? And what happened to them that made them become this person?
Seth Rogen has come a long way since embracing stand-up comedy in the ‘90s. He quickly graduated to TV shows and movies, becoming one of the most well-known comedic actors of his generation.
On top of that, Rogen expanded his horizons to produce, write, and direct various projects, which means he’s well-versed both in front of the camera and behind the scenes. His net worth must be substantial by now, no? Here’s what we know about the actor’s earnings.
Most of it is thanks to his lucrative entertainment career. Rogen began performing stand-up as a teenager before making his TV debut in cult series Freaks and Geeks in 1999. While the show only lasted one season, the cast included several future stars. Rogen was no exception. From there, he pulled double duty as both writer and actor in TV show Undeclared, after which he and friend Evan Goldberg began developing screenplays together.
Rogen’s first bigger movie role was in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, followed by a lead credit for comedy Knocked Up in 2007. That same year, he co-wrote and executive produced Superbad. He continued to appear in comedies like Pineapple Express, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and Funny People.
In the early 2010s, Rogen began taking more risks in his career. The actor appeared in The Green Hornet, which he co-wrote, as well as dramedy 50/50, Kung Fu Panda 2, and TV series The League. In 2011, Rogen and Goldberg founded a film and television production company that would go on to produce projects including Preacher, The Boys, Black Monday, Sausage Party, Good Boys, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
Rogen made his directorial debut with This Is the End, followed by the controversial movie The Interview. On the acting side, he continued mixing mainstream comedy with more distinctive projects. You might have seen him in Neighbors, The Night Before, An American Pickle, Steve Jobs, and The Disaster Artist.
As for his most recent career, Rogen moved beyond the stereotypical stoner roles that had defined his early fame. Credits include romantic comedy Long Shot, Disney’s The Lion King remake, and Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans. Rogen also created and stars in acclaimed Apple TV comedy series The Studio.
Besides his Hollywood gigs, Rogen wrote a book, co-founded a cannabis brand that expanded into home goods, and kickstarted a comedy-driven charitable organisation.
Seth Rogen Salary
Actor salaries are typically kept under wraps, but reports suggest that Seth Rogen’s paychecks are on the hefty side.
According to Variety, he is paid 750K/episode for Platonic. The Canadian actor also earned around $8.4 million from upfront and backend compensation for movie The Interview.
Seth Rogen Highest Grossing Movies
While Rogen’s salary is impressive, his movies also make a bang at the box office. His highest-grossing titles are voice roles: The Lion King, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Mufasa: The Lion King, and Kung Fu Panda 2.
In 2026, fans can catch Seth Rogen in comedy The Invite, opposite Olivia Wilde. He will also star in upcoming dramedy Babies, alongside Anna Kendrick.
Reality is tougher than it sounds when making a quiz. Staring at a blank quiz template. Contemplating whether the questions test knowledge. Then comes balancing difficulty, checking answers, and formatting everything. But it’s something you shouldn’t skip.Research shows that actively recalling information through testing effectively improves long-term retention. So the problem now is to take much of that busywork off the table. Thanks to the retrieval methods AI tools use when creating quizzes, that specific kind of dread is almost nonexistent.
Students can create practice tests. Teachers can turn lessons into assessments. Trainers can build knowledge checks. All without having to build every question from scratch. In short, theseAI tools shrink a two-hour task down to about ten minutes — assuming you pick the right tool for the job. But no need to guess, this guide lists the options worth knowing.
Top Five Best AI Tools for Creating Quizzes
Quizgecko
Quizgecko is built around AI-powered quiz generation. It turns handwritten notes, lecture slides, PDFs, and web links into a structured quiz. All without much fussing over settings. The AI handles parsing and phrasing itself. Users can pick from fill-in-the-blank, true-or-false, and multiple-choice formats. It’s even possible to set the difficulty level. What’s more, Quizgecko offers explanations for every answer. Plus, there are data-driven insights that help users see which topics they are weak in.
Key Features:
Real-time grading and performance analytics
Turning educational or professional content into a usable quiz quickly
Timed practice tests for simulating actual exam conditions
Pricing:
Free Package
Plus Package – $16 per month
Ultra Package – $29 per month
Real Use Case:
No need to write questions manually all afternoon. High school teachers can use Quizgecko to prepare a biology review. All that’s needed is to upload a genetics chapter and let AI generate a practice assessment. This way, teachers can focus on checking whether the AI correctly tests concepts.
Revisely
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Revisely leans toward turning existing study material into learning resources. And that includes questions for general practice or quizzes. This tool comes in with a very familiar workflow. Users upload notes, PDFs, and PowerPoints. Revisely then generates questions based on the content. Three quiz types are supported. That includes multiple-choice, open-ended, and true-or-false questions. It even comes with an AI companion. Through this, users can enter prompts to give specific instructions or make customizations.
Key Features:
Shareable quizzes for group study sessions
Converting learning materials into structured practice tests
Supports a diverse set of file formats
Pricing:
Free Package
Annual Package – $2.99 per month (billed annually)
Monthly Package – $6.99 per month
Real Use Case:
Nursing students can use Revisely’s quiz generator to better review for an anatomy exam. By uploading lecture slides, they can produce a practice quiz. Students can take it, identify weak areas, and come back to the relevant material.
Quizlet
Quizlet is one of the most established names in digital studying. Its AI can generate quizzes from any uploaded material. Its standout feature is that it lets students format the questions according to their preferences. That ranges from matching and true/false to multiple-choice and written questions. Users can also set a timer to practice answering quizzes under pressure. On top of that, this tool gives useful feedback. This allows students to know what else and what still needs improvement.
Key Features:
Multiple self-testing formats
Large library of existing study sets
AI-powered feedback and auto-grading
Pricing:
Free Package
Plus Package – $7.99 per month
Plus Unlimited Package – $9.99 per month
Real Use Case:
Students dread history exams that cover specific dates, events, and people. But with Quizlet, they can turn class notes into a practice test. Quizzes that allow them to answer questions repeatedly. It makes it easier to spot which topics still need attention.
Questgen
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Questgen is specifically built for making quizzes. And it’s intended for students, teachers, and HR teams. It’s also tailor-made for volume. It can produce 150 quizzes from images, PDFs, text, URLs, and videos in one pass. Generating different types of questions? Questgen can do it. It can deliver fill-in-the-blank, higher-order, match-the-following, multiple-choice, and true/false questions. Users can also edit and modify the output to meet their standards. These make it useful when one standard quiz format isn’t enough.
Key Features:
Creating varied assessments from learning materials
Supports multiple file formats for import and export
Generating quizzes in bulk
Pricing:
Free Package
Pro Package – $15 per month
Real Use Case
Knowledge checks are easy to conduct with Questgen. Corporate trainers can use it to onboard new sales representatives. They can upload a product guide and generate a quiz. Questions that cover common customer scenarios, pricing rules, and product features.
Wayground (formerly Quizizz)
Wayground, after the rebranding, is not just a quiz-hosting platform. It now comes as a complete assessment ecosystem built for teachers. Of course, the tool still offers quiz generation. Users can produce questions from educational material or by entering prompts. Either way, the AI takes part in streamlining the process. Teachers can also customize the quizzes. Like adding explanations or translating questions into anotherlanguage. Wayground even lets them run quizzes as live classroom activities or assignments.
Key Features:
Turning routine assessments more fun with game-like elements
Automatic grading and performance insights
Supports multiple quiz formats
Pricing:
Free Package
School and District Package – Custom Pricing
Real Use Case:
Teachers reviewing algebra before an exam can create a Wayground assessment. In the same tool, students can answer from their own devices while the teacher monitors performance.
Choosing the Top AI Tools for Creating Quizzes in 2026
With AI tools for creating quizzes, users can start with almost any source and let AI handle the first draft. But none of the options mentioned are exactly interchangeable. They have similarities. But they excel in different areas. Quizgecko is a strong all-around generator. Revisely quickly turns existing learning material into practice. Quizlet is built around self-study. Questgen offers a wider variety of assessment formats. Wayground brings AI-generated quizzes into the classroom.
The best option depends on whether you’re a student getting ready for an exam, a teacher running a live classroom review, or a department building a reusable question bank. But whichever you choose, don’t treat the first AI-generated quiz as the finished product. Check the answers. Remove redundant questions. Ensure difficulty scaling is reasonable. The key principle? AI can build the quiz. You still decide whether it’s a good one.
Flashcards are simple. One side has a question or a word. The other has the answer. But everyone who has made them manually knows the struggle.Students spend hours turning lecture notes, textbook chapters, and presentation slides into question-and-answer cards. Manual flashcard-making eats more study time than it saves. But nobody needs to settle for the tedious process (unless you deliberately want to). Why? Because AI tools for making flashcards changed that equation.
In fact, a modern survey revealed that60.1% of students prefer digital flashcards. This handful ofAI tools now reads your notes and turns them into a ready-to-review deck. Not in hours, but in minutes. But you already know about Quizlet. So here are five options worth adding to your list.
Top Five Best AI Tools for Making Flashcards
RemNote
RemNote started as a note-taking app and later added a powerful flashcard maker. PDFs. PowerPoint files. Typed notes. Its AI can generate question-answer pairs pulled straight from a user’s material at speed. No app switching needed. Students with different learning styles will also benefit from RemNote’s diverse flashcard formats. But one of its biggest strengths is the built-in spaced repetition. The tool schedules reviews based on what a learner is likely to forget.
Key Features:
AI-powered explanation on every flashcard
Automatically generating flashcards directly from notes
Flashcard review and custom instructions support
Pricing:
Free Package
Pro Package – $10 per month
Pro with AI Package – $20 per month
Real Use Case:
Tests in medical courses are challenging to say the least. But with RemNote, students can upload lecture slides and generate cards about any topic. Exam preparation would then be easier because they can return to the source material whenever a concept needs more context.
Revisely
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One of three core features of Revisely is its reliable AI tool for making flashcards. For ultimate convenience, this platform supports PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, and any other document type. Just upload the file, and users get an editable deck back almost immediately. Many applaud Revisely for what comes after generating them. Students can enter exam mode. Here, they can test their knowledge and get insightful feedback based on their performance.
Key Features:
Export options, including Anki
Supports single-sided and double-sided approaches for flashcard printing
Personalized feedback for progressive learning
Pricing:
Free Package
Annual Package – $2.99 per month (billed annually)
Monthly Package – $6.99 per month
Real Use Case:
Revisely allows online students to paste a video link instead of rewatching it to take notes. It makes a summary and a deck of flashcards from the key points. Students walk away with a reviewable deck. Not an hour of raw video they’d have to rewatch.
Gizmo
Gizmo focuses on making flashcard creation almost effortless. Like other AI tools for making flashcards, users can quickly produce study decks by uploading a PDF, PowerPoint, photos, or a YouTube video. What sets it apart is its approach. Gizmo leans into gamification. The flashcards are wrapped in streaks, hearts, and leaderboards. And that’s part of why it’s a good pick. Its real innovation isn’t card quality. It’s making users build a daily habit through game mechanics.
Key Features:
Making study decks based on spaced repetition and active recall methods
Shareable flashcards for group studies
Magic Import for multiple types of study material
Pricing:
Free Package
Ultra – Annual Package – $12.49 per month
Ultra – Monthly Package – $24.99 per month
Real Use Case:
High schoolers who prefer studying in pairs can use Gizmo. Students can let Gizmo transcribe a lecture and turn it into flashcards instantly. Then, they can challenge their study partners in a review battle before the exam.
Knowt
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Among AI tools for making flashcards, Knowt specifically positions itself as the top Quizlet alternative. For starters, it’s packed with AI tools for notetaking and summarizing PDFs and videos. This allows users to identify key notes quickly. Using an active recall method, its AI then creates organized, interactive flashcards. There’s even a library that contains ready-made flashcards. Customization is also available. Students can add more information, integrate an image, and rephrase questions.
Key Features:
AI chatbot for customizing flashcards
Dedicated space-repetition mode for effective learning
Large collection of existing study resources
Pricing:
Free Package
Pro Package – $12 per month
Team Package – $39 per month
Enterprise Package – Custom Pricing
Real Use Case:
Knowt can help students looking to transfer from Quizlet. Using a browser extension, they can import their whole study decks into Knowt. Then, they can generate new flashcards from recorded lectures without re-typing anything.
Brainscape
Brainscape takes a more adaptive approach to flashcards. At its core, it’s capable of generating flashcards from any source material. Users can also customize their flashcards. Adding images. Formatting texts. Integrating GIFs. It even comes with a library of flashcards. All made by experts, from publishers to educators. It stands out for its confidence-based repetition system. Brainscape adjusts reviews according to how well the learner knows each card. Low-confidence cards resurface. Cards users know well fade out.
Key Features:
AI-generated flashcards
Progress tracking and analytics
Strong emphasis on long-term retention
Pricing:
Free Package
Pro Package – $19.99 per month
Enterprise Package – Custom Pricing
Real Use Case:
Law students can upload case notes and generate cards covering complex topics. Brainscape can then prioritize cards that they consistently struggle to remember.
Choosing the Best AI Tools for Making Flashcards in 2026
One effective way to up your study habits is to take advantage of smart platforms that streamline tedious work. With AI tools for creating flashcards, students can hand over their study material and get testable cards in minutes.
When choosing, consider a tool that offers image support, customization, note-taking, and spaced repetition. But among these suggested options, there’s no one-size-fits-all winner. RemNote fits dense, connected material. Revisely wins on raw generation speed. Gizmo and Knowt suit anyone who needs the habit-forming push of gamification or a free daily driver. Brainscape emphasizes adaptive review.
Remember that automatically generated cards aren’t useful if half contain unnecessary details. So review the AI’s output, remove weak cards, and keep the questions focused.
Plants have never been only food or medicine. Across history, they carried meaning far beyond their chemistry. A flower could mark a season, a mushroom could open a ceremony, and a leaf could signal the sacred.
Today a new generation is rediscovering these traditions with fresh curiosity. Brands like Amentara pair botanicals with the cultural context that gives them depth. This piece traces how plants took root in ritual, folklore, and art.
Why Have Plants Always Held Ritual Meaning?
Ritual gives shape to the moments that matter most. Plants offered early communities a shared language for those moments. A specific flower or root could mark a birth, a harvest, or a farewell.
That symbolism grew from close observation of nature. People noticed which plants bloomed, healed, or shifted with the seasons. Over generations, that knowledge hardened into tradition.
Fire, water, and plant life formed the core of most early rites. Herbs were burned, brewed, or worn to mark a threshold. The plant became both the tool and the message. Western scholars only began cataloging these customs closely in the 1800s.
Scholars still study these customs across many cultures. One survey of ritual plants in Yunnan links belief and botany closely. Similar records reach from Europe to Southeast Asia.
This is why so many plants carry a double life. They feed the body and also feed the imagination. That second role is what art history remembers best.
Which Botanicals Shaped Folk Tradition?
Several plants and fungi stand out for their long folk history. Each earned its place through centuries of storytelling.
The fly agaric mushroom, with its red-and-white cap, fills fairy tales and winter folklore.
The blue lotus appeared in ancient Egyptian ceremony and poetry.
Kava has anchored community gatherings across the Pacific for generations.
Kanna features in the oral traditions of southern Africa.
Mugwort and other herbs guarded doorways in European folk custom.
Folklore rarely treats these plants as mere ingredients. They become characters, omens, and gifts. Illustrators still return to that well, as playful collections of Baltic folklore remind us.
These stories also crossed borders with ease. A mushroom in one region’s fable often echoed another’s harvest rite. That shared imagination is half the appeal for readers today.
How Do Botanicals Appear In Art History?
Artists have painted plants for as long as they have painted anything. Botanicals offered colour, symbol, and story in a single form.
Ancient Egypt loved the blue lotus above all. A Met Museum lotiform chalice from the New Kingdom captures that reverence. The blossom stood for rebirth and the rising sun for over 3,000 years.
Medieval herbals turned plants into careful study. Monks and scholars illustrated leaves, roots, and flowers by hand. Those pages blended observation, faith, and craft in equal measure. The genus Amanita alone holds more than 600 species worth drawing.
The fly agaric took a different route into art. Its glowing cap appears in folk painting, storybook pages, and modern design. That fascination lives on in a feature on four mushroom artists, from macro photography to bold canvases.
Plants let artists say complex things simply. A single bloom could hint at love, loss, or renewal. That shorthand still reads clearly across centuries.
What Should Curious Readers Keep In Mind?
Interest in botanicals is healthy, and a little care makes it richer. A few practical points help.
Keep exploration adults-only, which usually means 18 or 21 depending on the place.
Legality varies by location, so check your local rules first.
Some botanicals can cause unwanted side effects, especially if misused or improperly prepared.
Interactions are possible, so consult a qualified professional, especially alongside any medication.
Research is still limited, and some studies are industry-funded or pay-for-play.
Favour sellers who share clear sourcing and preparation notes.
None of this dims the wonder. It simply keeps curiosity grounded in respect for the tradition.
How Are Botanicals Woven Into Culture Today?
The old symbolism has found a modern audience. By 2026, botanicals appear in galleries, playlists, and quiet home rituals.
Musicians credit plants and fungi as creative sparks. Designers borrow their forms for prints and packaging. The imagery feels fresh because the roots run so deep.
Wellness shops now stock dried caps, teas, and tinctures beside candles and incense. The setting often matters as much as the plant itself. Ritual, it turns out, never really left the room.
What ties it together is meaning, not novelty. People want the story behind the plant, not just the product. Tradition gives that story its lasting weight.
Threads Worth Remembering
Plants have carried ritual meaning across nearly every culture.
Folk tradition turned botanicals into characters and omens.
Art history preserved that symbolism, from Egypt onward.
The fly agaric and blue lotus remain vivid cultural icons.
Curiosity works best with respect, care, and local legality checks.
Where Tradition Meets Curiosity
Botanicals reward anyone willing to look past the surface. Their stories link the sacred, the everyday, and the artistic. That range is what keeps them so compelling.
Explore them with an open, informed mind. The tradition is generous to readers who treat it with care.
FAQ
Why Did Ancient Cultures Use Plants In Ritual?
Plants gave people a shared language for life’s big moments. Their bloom, scent, and healing power felt meaningful. Communities wove them into ceremony to mark seasons, healing, and belonging.
Is the Fly Agaric the Same as Deadly Amanitas?
No, that is a common myth. The fly agaric is distinct from the genuinely deadly Amanita species, such as the death cap. Prepared with care, it holds a long tradition of respectful use.
How Did Artists Use the Blue Lotus?
Egyptian artists shaped the blue lotus into chalices, jewellery, and painted wall scenes. The flower symbolized rebirth and the morning sun. It became one of the most depicted plants of the ancient world.
Are Botanicals Legal to Explore Today?
Legality varies widely by country and region. Some botanicals are unrestricted, while others face local rules. Always check your own laws, keep it adults-only, and consult a professional first.
At Snape Maltings, art and landscape have always shared the stage with music. From 25 July to 30 August, Britten Pears Arts stages its most ambitious summer exhibition yet — five weeks, over 200 works, and a site that stretches from concert hall foyer to dovecote studio. Entry is free. Every piece is for sale, and every sale helps fund the charity’s wider cultural work. The curator for the exhibition is the highly-regarded Devi Singh.
Gracing the catalogue cover is Abe Odedina’s Foreplay, a bold acrylic-on-plywood panel. Odedina, born in Ibadan and now dividing his time between London and Salvador Bahia, abandoned a career in architecture after a trip to Brazil, and his self-described “folk” style, flat, frontal, unmistakably graphic, draws equally on Yoruba mythology and the hand-painted shopfronts of Lagos and Port-au-Prince. A short walk away, in the Concert Hall foyer, sits the show’s most expensive work: Conrad Shawcross RA’s motorised, mirror-polished steel sculpture. Shawcross, elected the Royal Academy’s youngest Academician at 36, built his reputation on mechanical forms governed by scientific and geometric logic, and this piece keeps that logic turning slowly and silently as concertgoers pass beneath it each evening.
Ash Xu LG, a London-based digital artist and member of The London Group, presents Robotic Arm of Chaos — a small interactive installation that behaves like nothing else on site. Left undisturbed, the arm rotates in slow, steady arcs. The moment a visitor draws near, sensors register the presence and the motion fractures — irregular, unpredictable, almost startled. It’s ambition is the largest in the room: a quiet study of how people and machines might learn to coexist, staged not on canvas but in real time, in front of you. In addition, Maggi Hambling previews her autumn show, Woo Jin Joo’s embroidered landscapes reward a walk across two galleries, and Harry Hill and Dame Maureen Lipman remind visitors that serious collecting and unexpected joy needn’t be strangers. Summer Contemporary runs daily from 10am until the evening performance begins.
After a three-year break, heartwarming Apple TV series Ted Lasso is back. While the show initially hinted that the third season would be its last, the powers that be decided that the story is not over. We’re not complaining one bit.
The new episodes see the relentlessly positive coach back at Richmond, so the show definitely has the potential to keep going. Does that mean another installment is happening? Here’s everything we know so far.
Ted Lasso Season 5 Release Date
At the time of writing, Apple TV hasn’t announced whether Ted Lasso season 5 is in the works. That said, only one season 4 episode dropped so far. There is still time.
The streamer seems more than willing to go all in on the popular series, and co-creator/star Jason Sudeikis hinted in a recent interview that he has another three-season plan in mind.
If all goes well, season 5 could arrive in 2027.
Ted Lasso Cast
Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso
Hannah Waddingham as Rebecca Welton
Jeremy Swift as Leslie Higgins
Brett Goldstein as Roy Kent
Brendan Hunt as Coach Beard
Juno Temple as Keeley Jones
Tanya Reynolds as Coach Alice
What Could Happen in Ted Lasso Season 5?
Ted Lasso revolves around the titular character, an upbeat American college football coach unexpectedly hired to manage AFC Richmond, a struggling Premier League club. Armed with relentless optimism, he gradually wins over everyone. The show mixes humour with emotional storytelling, while also acting as a strong reminder that kindness reigns supreme.
If you need a quick refresher, season 3 ended on a pretty definite note. Ted decided to return to Kansas to be a more present father to his son. Roy took over as Richmond’s new head coach, Nate rejoined the club, Beard got married, and Rebecca reconnected with the Dutch pilot she met earlier in the season. Finally, Keeley pitched the idea of launching an AFC Richmond women’s team.
That idea fuels the show’s new chapter. Season 4 picks up with Rebecca, Keeley, and Higgins visiting Ted in the US. They persuade him to return to England to coach the Lady Greyhounds, kickstarting a new era for the character. Whether he’s as successful as he was in building up the men’s team remains to be seen.
As for Ted Lasso season 5, it’s a bit early to speculate. We’re guessing the show will continue in the same vein, following the characters as they take on fresh challenges. Until then, you can catch new season 4 episodes every Wednesday through October 7 on Apple TV.
Are There Other Shows Like Ted Lasso?
If you enjoy Ted Lasso, check out some other life-affirming shows. The list includes Shrinking, Scrubs, Parks and Recreation,Trying, The Good Place, andRunning Point.
