RFK Jr.’s new food pyramid puts meat and dairy on top — and it doesn’t add up
If you take anything at all from the latest edition of the federal dietary guidelines, out this week,…
Poor countries keep paying their debts. That’s actually the problem.
Like many Americans, most countries are in a lot of debt. Developing countries, alone, carry nearly $31 trillion…
How superintelligent AI could rob us of agency, free will, and meaning
Almost 2,000 years before ChatGPT was invented, two men had a debate that can teach us a lot…
Is your job wasting your potential? Or is a good-enough career okay?
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral…
How AI could reboot science and revive long-term economic growth
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. A Pew Research Center survey published…
How zero sum thinking hurts the economy and growth
I live in New York City, which fashions itself as many things: the financial capital of the world,…
How to fight AI at work
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral…
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…
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…
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…