The Latest: Dec 24, 2017

The holidays can be as stressful and crazy as they are delightful and cheery, and sometimes you just need to let off a little steam. Even those of us who began organizing in September or loaded up on mindfulness podcasts for the four hour drive to our cousins’ can feel a little rage-y. Like any good captain of industry, the folks behind Rudolph’s Rage Room saw a need and decided to meet it. What need exactly?

While we can get swept up in all the holiday cheer, it’s possible to forget that not everyone is having a jolly happy season. Non-profit organization Option B is sharing ways you can help out your friends and family who are having a hard time during the holidays. Option B is an organization started by Sheryl Sandberg that’s meant to help build resistance in the face of adversity, such as grief, discrimination, or assault.

Way back in the days of yore, people lit their Christmas trees with candles. While this look was hygge as all get out, it was also really, really dangerous. So who is responsible for the safer holiday tree-lighting system we use today? We’ve got questions and 6sqft has answers. In 1882 Edward Hibberd Johnson, Thomas Edison’s business partner, was the first person to put electric lights on a Christmas tree. Not only was Johnson a brilliant engineer, he was a bit of a PR maven as well.