I look a lot of youtube. Am I pursuing my hobbies or am I wasting my time watch people build tunnels under their housesa video service owned by Google is broadcast around the clock somewhere. If you’ve spent any time on YouTube in the past, you’re probably aware of the Raycon Everyday Earbuds that have...

I shrug and put my phone back in my pocket. “No, it’s not.” After a pause, she demands, “Let me see it again.” The second time, her eyes travel across the screen, taking the time to study the image. She marks my angular eyebrows. Glitter of silver on my breastplate. My chin is slightly raised....

Of course, the problem will be applying scientific standardization to something that might not be scientific at all. Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable, and people interpret what they see based on factors such as current events and their scientific, political, and cultural background. “The data you get is socially constructed,” says University of Pennsylvania historian...

To the unfamiliar eye, the press release from the Massachusetts Department of Health two weeks ago looked pretty mundane. Perhaps his language was a little unnerving, but carefully worded: Analysts found a resident with a strain of gonorrhea that showed a “reduced response to several antibiotics,” but that person – and a second with a...

Eva Se did this is right. She enrolled at the highly competitive Bronx High School of Science in New York City and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied mathematics and computer science with a major in artificial intelligence. After her freshman year, she landed a coveted summer internship at Facebook, and...

Ten years ago, I went to a therapist for the first time. I was writing a cookbook with a respected chef and I needed help figuring out how to work with him. The chef in question was an alumnus of the vaunted Copenhagen restaurant Noma, and I needed to make changes to a chapter that...