Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s hard for a neurosurgeon to navigate a brain. A key challenge is gooeyness. The brain is immersed in cerebrospinal fluid; when a surgeon opens the skull, pressure is released, and…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2000, Dickson D. Despommier, then a professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University, was teaching a class on medical ecology in which he asked his students, “What will…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Like so many millennials, I entered the online world through AOL Instant Messenger. I created an account one unremarkable day in the late nineteen-nineties, sitting in the basement of my childhood…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Not long ago, I became a kind of undertaker. I was a fact checker at this magazine until recently and, in the final months of my tenure, it felt as if…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The finale of “The Curse,” the oddest and most original show on television right now, opens with Asher and Whitney Siegel, the grin-and-bear-it married couple played by Nathan Fielder and Emma…
Bad things are happening in Texas, but they aren’t the result of abortion bans. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick and her child in utero died two weeks after Roe v. Wade was overturned. The mother’s death, according to pro-choice…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Toward the end of “The Light Room,” Kate Zambreno’s memoir of the early pandemic, she describes corresponding with a friend, the author and professor Sofia Samatar, about the difference between hoarding…
There’s a strong circumstantial case that welfare benefits increased single parenthood to some extent, but to what extent is difficult to nail down using scientifically rigorous methods. Credit: Bain News Service The debate over single parenthood has reemerged thanks in…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On January 4th, a TikTok user with the handle @aaliyarae uploaded a video of three friends on an erotic pilgrimage to the corner of Crosby and Houston. Earlier that day, Calvin…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Arlo Washington peers out the car window as he drives through the capital of Arkansas. He wears a royal-blue polo; his Afro is close-cropped. With soft, alert eyes, he surveys the…