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Stephen Hawking, who died Wednesday, was a hugely inspirational and influential scientist. Despite living most of his life with a serious neurodegenerative disease, ALS, that left him paralyzed, Hawking achieved a rare fame in both scientific circles and the popular…
Elizabeth Holmes once promised to revolutionize the multibillion-dollar blood testing industry with innovative finger-prick tests she said would deliver results quickly, painlessly, and cheaply. Now the 34-year-old founder of the biotech startup Theranos is in huge legal trouble. On Wednesday,…
Stephen Hawking once proclaimed he had gathered “experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.” The experiment? A party for time travelers he hosted in 2009. But he didn’t send out the invitation until the party was over. “I sat…
Leilah Weinraub’s début documentary feature, “Shakedown,” which will screen at moma PS1 on March 18th, explores early-aughts Los Angeles through the underground black-lesbian strip club from which the film gets its name. This summary is, as Weinraub acknowledged, a “both…
Barry Blitt’s latest cover for the magazine is his fifteenth to feature Donald Trump. (“The gift that keeps on grifting,” in Blitt’s words.) The image of Trump at the lectern, poised nude and cross-legged, recalls the prophet Bob Dylan, who…
On Monday, National Geographic opened its April issue with a sombre letter from the editor, Susan Goldberg, presented with the even more sombre headline “For Decades, Our Coverage was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It.” “The…
