More than 75 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine demanded on Thursday that the organization explain why it has for years… Read More »Members of National Academies demand answers about Sacklers’ donations
If you love to eat pineapples, you may be wondering how pineapples grow and when they are ready to eat. These are common questions people… Read More »How do pineapples grow? Pineapples don’t grow on trees
At the end of March, more than 1,000 technology leaders, researchers and other experts working in and around artificial intelligence signed an open letter warning… Read More »What exactly are the dangers of AI?
Meanwhile, the demand for magnets embedded in decarbonization tools, such as cars and wind turbines, is rising. Currently, 12 percent of rare earths go to… Read More »Tesla’s Magnet Mystery shows that Elon Musk is willing to compromise
Regulators seized control of First Republic Bank and sold it to JPMorgan Chase on Monday, a dramatic move to curb a two-month banking crisis that… Read More »First Republic Bank seized by regulators and sold to JPMorgan Chase
Yesterday, Twitter rival Bluesky experienced its biggest spike in users yet. Between Wednesday and Thursday, Bluesky doubled its user base, Bloomberg reported. Bluesky’s popularity came… Read More »Top Twitter influencers flee to Bluesky amid Musk’s continued humiliation
When friends become executors David Staehlin, 62, never married and had no children. “I’ve just been happy to be single,” he said. He made his… Read More »How to leave your friends an inheritance after your death
Michael Bublé shaded Tony Danza after being super rude to a red carpet reporter
For years, the giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance has had a reputation for evading regulators and circumventing financial rules, all without significant consequences. Now the world’s… Read More »Binance is under increasing pressure as the US Crypto Crackdown intensifies
Rock and a hard place About a year ago I left a large non-profit organization where I had worked for seven amazing years. When the… Read More »Must Love Dogs was not in the job description
Enlarge / So they put a Tile tracker on a cat…now what? Tile Did you know that Tile sells Bluetooth trackers for your cat? Why… Read More »Tile should and should outperform the DIY-looking “Tile for Cats”
Keke Palmer brought her newborn son for her first post-baby red carpet, and let’s just say the pictures are worth a 1,000 words
When the most recent Hollywood strike happened – 16 years ago – the Internet had not yet transformed the television and film industry. Broadcast networks… Read More »Writers, seeking wage change for the streaming era, prepare to strike
Jerry Mander, whose iconoclastic mindset led him to create ad campaigns for non-profit organizations, such as one for the Sierra Club in 1966 to fight… Read More »Jerry Mander, Adman for radical causes, dies at age 86
Rising concerns about youth mental health have prompted state lawmakers across the country to propose a slew of age restrictions to protect minors online. Lawmakers… Read More »Echoes of history in new national effort to protect children online
