There’s a silver lining to your unhappiness
In The Opposite of Happiness, behavioral economist George Loewenstein explains why pain, envy, loneliness, and other negative emotions are so…
Antarctica’s penguins are sending us a distress signal
Something is breaking in the world’s wildest ecosystem.
Are the AI industry’s apocalyptic warnings just a marketing ploy?
When tech CEOs say their products might kill us all, are they trying to sell us something?
Movies may soon get more boring
The merger puts Hollywood in the hands of just five massive companies.
How October 7 changed everything
We still live in the long shadow of Hamas’s brutal 2023 attack — and Israel’s devastating response to it.
No one wants to be “Data Center Dave”
Voters on both sides of the aisle despise hate data centers. But do they hate them enough to influence the…
Is this the cure for Alzheimer’s?
An experimental Alzheimer’s dementia treatment first reported in China has piqued researchers’ interest — but also skepticism. New studies hope…
Big AI has a problem on the right. It starts in Florida.
Trump wants the GOP to be a pro-AI party. Ron DeSantis has a different idea.
The cruelty of a beloved American pastime
Americans catch billions of fish each year for fun. What’s it like for the animals?
The rise of gas station opioids
What are kratom and 7-OH, the opioid-like drugs that you can buy at the gas station?