There’s a new Meta whistleblower in town: Arturo Béjar, a longtime employee who came forward to the Wall Street Journal last week to accuse the social media giant […]
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Why influencers with 7, 8, or 10 kids are having a moment
Hannah Neeleman, the Juilliard-trained dancer turned homesteading influencer better known as Ballerina Farm, announced in October that she was pregnant with her eighth child. Wearing a flowing prairie […]
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How to catch a scientific fraud
Elisabeth Bik did not start out her career as a vigilante. In fact, for many years, she was a microbiologist, studying human microbiomes. But then, one evening in […]
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Elon Musk didn’t kill Twitter
Twitter is a disaster. But you know that already. Why is Twitter a disaster? You probably think you know that, too: The usual suspect is Elon Musk, who […]
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Leave the World Behind is a slick and stylish apocalyptic thriller
When the end of the world comes, will we know it for what it is? In Leave the World Behind, the slick and stylish new Netflix thriller directed […]
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Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?
Of all Elon Musk’s exploits — the Tesla cars, the SpaceX rockets, the Twitter takeover, the plans to colonize Mars — his secretive brain chip company Neuralink may […]
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Mud libraries hold the story of the Earth’s climate past — and foretell its future
Tucked away in the rolling green hills of the New York Palisades, there’s an unusual library: the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository. Instead of shelves, it has more than 50,000 […]
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The secrets Google spilled in court
The Google search antitrust trial is expected to wrap up by Thanksgiving. And while we’ll have to wait until next year for a verdict, there are a few […]
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The bizarre new frontier for cell-cultivated meat: Lion burgers, tiger steaks, and mammoth meatballs
What is the strangest meat you’ve eaten? For me, it’s reindeer. This was during a trip to Finland when I was 7. We’d gone to the Arctic Circle, […]
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The Curse is a fully bizarre and brilliant maze of a show
Few things are more irksome than the contemporary impulse (I think we can blame it on Lost) to decode every TV show as though it’s a puzzle to […]