AI voice cloning complicates estate planning for celebrities’ legacies
Before Franz Kafka died in 1924, he had a simple wish for his friend and literary executor Max…
Why did we send Laika to space? The tragedy of the first animal to orbit the earth, explained
In March, I visited the Lowell Observatory — the astronomical research site where Pluto was first discovered —…
We can have growth while fighting climate change
Climate stories usually start the same way: fire, flood, loss, collapse. The charts are grim. The vibes are…
US adult obesity rate drops as GLP-1 weight-loss drugs surge
For years, obesity rates in the US have gone in one direction: up. From the first year it…
What did cavemen really eat? The myth of the carnivore diet.
Across the far right, a paranoid prophecy has been taking hold: the belief that globalist elites want to…
Bird flu is back. Will egg prices rise as it infects more and more farms?
It might now be a distant memory, but by the end of last winter, the average cost of…
Does my protein powder have lead in it?
Americans’ love affair with protein powders may slowly be poisoning them with the known neurotoxin lead. That, at…
How lenacapavir can change the fight against HIV — if we can let it
How often, on average, do you forget to take your daily meds? For me, it’s about twice a…
Lead batteries are poisoning millions of children. We can stop it.
Remember the Flint, Michigan, water crisis? The public health disaster that, at its peak, poisoned nearly 5 percent…
Social Security retirement age: How to raise it without hurting poor people
The other day, economist Tyler Cowen made an offhand observation that took me aback a bit: that the…
Designer babies: Should you try embryo selection via polygenic testing?
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral…
Trump’s AI chip flip-FLOP | Vox
Whatever else can be said about the second Trump administration, it is always teaching me about parts of…