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EEconomy Read More How zero sum thinking hurts the economy and growthDecember 7, 2025 I live in New York City, which fashions itself as many things: the financial capital of the world,…
SScience Read More Can fish feel pain? That may be the wrong question.November 22, 2025 What must it feel like to be a fish — to glide weightlessly through the sea, to draw…
AArtificial intelligence Read More How to fight AI at workNovember 16, 2025 Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral…
PPersonal finance Read More AI voice cloning complicates estate planning for celebrities’ legaciesNovember 14, 2025 Before Franz Kafka died in 1924, he had a simple wish for his friend and literary executor Max…
SSpace Read More Why did we send Laika to space? The tragedy of the first animal to orbit the earth, explainedNovember 9, 2025 In March, I visited the Lowell Observatory — the astronomical research site where Pluto was first discovered —…
HHealth Read More US adult obesity rate drops as GLP-1 weight-loss drugs surgeNovember 1, 2025 For years, obesity rates in the US have gone in one direction: up. From the first year it…
NNutrition Read More What did cavemen really eat? The myth of the carnivore diet.October 31, 2025 Across the far right, a paranoid prophecy has been taking hold: the belief that globalist elites want to…
HHealth Read More Bird flu is back. Will egg prices rise as it infects more and more farms?October 31, 2025 It might now be a distant memory, but by the end of last winter, the average cost of…
NNutrition Read More Does my protein powder have lead in it?October 22, 2025 Americans’ love affair with protein powders may slowly be poisoning them with the known neurotoxin lead. That, at…
EEconomy Read More US farmers are struggling to sell soybeans. Here’s how to think about the trade war.October 17, 2025 Americans have a weird relationship with soy, one of the most important and widely cultivated crops in the…