The real stakes of the war for your attention
A friend of mine once told me that “You are where your attention is.” That line always stuck with me. ...
Tag: Podcasts
How Greenland feels about Trump, explained by a Greenlander
Greenland is the world’s largest non-continental island, and it takes up space rent-free in President Donald Trump’s head.Since 2019, Trump ...
How weight-loss drugs ended the era of “lifestyle changes”
When drugmakers pulled the weight-loss drug fen-phen off the market in 1997, my mom was devastated. Not because the FDA ...
Lyman Stone on America’s falling birth rate
I always knew I wanted to have children. And because all my jokes are terrible and I genuinely enjoy chatting ...
Sports gambling should have stayed in Las Vegas
Sports betting feels like it’s everywhere. Ads for online sportsbooks like BetMGM, DraftKings, or FanDuel are ubiquitous, whether on social ...
Assad is gone. Will Syrian refugees go home?
Millions of Syrians around the world are celebrating the sudden fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime dictatorship and the end ...
How UnitedHealthcare became the face of a broken health care system
On Monday, police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, arrested Luigi Mangione in connection with last week’s shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian ...
Why did we think Neanderthals weren’t smart?
H.G. Wells is probably best known for his story about an alien invasion, “The War of the Worlds,” and some ...
Y2K is so back
Twenty-five years ago, millions of people were nervously looking ahead to New Year’s Eve.When the clocks struck midnight, they wondered, ...
Should we put pig organs in humans? We asked an ethicist.
In 2022, surgeons transplanted the first genetically engineered pig heart into a human. Fifty-seven-year-old David Bennett, a patient with heart ...
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