We’re not as helpless against dementia as we think
I turned 48 this week, which meant it was time for my annual physical. After the usual battery of questions ...
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The next AI safety fight may actually be about DNA
AI company CEOs Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) disagree on a lot, like how ...
Designer babies. Self-improving AI. Are we ready for either?
How do we know when the world has changed?On June 1, a team of scientists published a preprint scientific paper ...
We don’t know how the Ebola outbreak started. That’s a problem.
In just 10 days over the summer of 1854, 500 people died of cholera in the Soho neighborhood of London. ...
I don’t want children. I do want children. What should I do?
Editor’s note, June 7, 8 am ET: We’re bringing you some of our best-loved Your Mileage May Vary columns while ...
The most hopeful cancer news in years
In a darkened convention hall in Chicago on May 31, a Harvard oncologist named Brian Wolpin stood at a podium ...
A new investigation reveals why you can’t take meat companies at their word
In 2019, Animal Outlook — an animal protection nonprofit — exposed cruelty at a salmon hatchery in Maine. The company ...
American cities are paying too much for sprawling housing
The housing abundance movement has won more of the intellectual argument than anyone might have predicted a decade ago. Across ...
New college grads are doing better than the vibes suggest
There are many ways to bomb a college commencement speech.You can tell everyone you composed the talk while high on ...
A DNA test upended my family. Do I side with my grandmother — or her secret child?
Editor’s note, May 31, 8 am ET: We’re bringing you some of our best-loved Your Mileage May Vary columns while ...
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