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Snapchat’s main selling point is producing stories that disappear from its users’ phones. Lately, however, the company has made some decisions that it probably wishes would disappear from its users’ memories. In what the company characterizes as an unfortunate oversight,…
As a longtime health reporter, I see new diet studies just about every week, and I’ve noticed a few patterns emerge from the data. In even the most rigorous scientific experiments, people tend to lose little weight on average. All…
In 1856, the precocious scientist William Henry Perkin failed in an experiment to synthetically produce quinine, a chemical that helps treat malaria. Instead of quinine, his beakers were left filled with a dirty brown sludge. But something amazing happened when…
If you want to understand West Africa’s largest-ever Lassa fever outbreak, which has killed 78 people so far, you need to know about rats. But first: Yes, there is an outbreak of the deadly, Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever in one of…
In 1975, Loretta Lynn, by then an established country singer-songwriter for more than a decade, released her single “The Pill.” At that point, Lynn had won hearts and raised eyebrows with songs like “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (with Lovin’ on…
Two of my fellow-critics have gotten the ball rolling. Inspired by a tweet from Matt Zoller Seitz, David Ehrlich asked me and other film critics a provocative question for the latest of his weekly IndieWire surveys: my choice for a…
