Can A.I. Usher in a New Era of Hyper-Personalized Food?
Think beer and snacks as unique as your fingerprint, and a future where your food knows more about you.
Do You Know Where Your Healing Crystals Come From?
Healing crystals are now a multi-billion dollar industry. But if people want to use crystal energy to heal yourself and the planet, they should demand greater transparency about their crystals’ sourcing.
A True (Non-Hierarchical, Shared) Love
In this personal essay, Journalist Mithila Phadke navigates polyamory while falling in love for the first time.
The Trip of a Lifetime
In the context of some recent reads on psychedelic drugs, Laura Miller looks at Michael Pollan’s new book, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. In it, Pollan says that drugs such as psilocybin and LSD got a bad rap after some flawed scientific experimentation and images of burned-out, ’60s counter-culture hippies soured Americans on exploring the medical benefits these drugs might offer, suggesting that their mind-altering abilities might help free us from cognitive patterns that are holding us back.
The Man Who Lives Inside His Dreams
Grief takes many forms. In this case, an art house and a place to share stories.
Why Buying a House Today Is So Much Harder Than in 1950
The 2017 National Home Price Index increased at twice the rate of income growth, further tightening an already difficult housing market, especially for Millenials. But it was past racist policies, government intervention and once-abundant land that helped put home-ownership beyond many people’s reach.
Missing Hope: A Trio of Miscarriages, and What Happened After
“I have been afraid most days of my life, which is what anxiety is, and the months of this pregnancy have been the most anxious of my life.”
The Moral Cost of Cats
Pete Marra, head of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, is pushing a controversial conservation idea: that as the single-biggest man-made danger to bird and small mammal populations in the United States, outdoor and feral cat populations should be controlled, either by keeping pets inside, or by euthanasia and sterilize-and-return programs.
(MORE) Guided Journalists During the 1970s Media Crisis of Confidence
Before Gawker there was MORE, a scrappy magazine of media criticism that wanted to hold journalists feet to the flames: “It questioned the objectivity that the New York press had long held onto. And it ended up chronicling one of the most eventful and transformative decades in American journalism.”
Four Women Accuse New York’s Attorney General of Physical Abuse
Eric Schneiderman, as the head of law enforcement in New York State, used his position of power to become a voice for the #MeToo movement. But behind closed doors, his treatment of women was abusive and physically disturbing. Schneiderman resigned three hours after this story was published.
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