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“Can you just explain this to me like I barely know anything about this subject?” → Read More
Behavioral changes and screenings may be just as important as treatments, if not more so. → Read More
Science has a crummy-paper problem. → Read More
The U.S. just made a breakthrough in nuclear-fusion technology. Will we know how to use it? → Read More
Invention alone can’t change the world; what matters is what happens next. → Read More
Robots were once considered capable only of unimaginative, routine work. Today they write articles and create award-winning art. → Read More
In 15 years, we’ve had a historic housing crash, a historic housing crunch, a historic pandemic-fueled buying spree, and a historic mortgage-rate spiral. → Read More
You can make a thing so perfect that it's ruined. → Read More
Misconceptions about pastors, playwrights, postal workers, and other professionals → Read More
Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math → Read More
It’s not just the pandemic. For citizens of a wealthy country, Americans of every age, at every income level, are unusually likely to die, from guns, drugs, cars, and disease. → Read More
They tend to treat their readers like fools without willpower. So you could argue that they’re wrong for the right reasons. → Read More
It’s not just inflation. It’s the end of the Millennial Consumer Subsidy. → Read More
A mentality that explains a lot about the economy, electoral politics, and human nature → Read More
Is the U.S. destined to have a recession in 2022? → Read More
America’s baby-formula shortage has gone from curious inconvenience to full-blown national crisis. In many states, including Texas and Tennessee, more than half of formula is sold out in stores. Nationwide, 40 percent of formula is out of stock—a twentyfold increase since the first half of 2021. As parents have started to stockpile formula, retailers such as Walgreens, CVS, and Target have all… → Read More
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Invention is easily overrated, and implementation is often underrated. → Read More
This is how a culture war death spirals. → Read More
Pop quiz: What do the metros of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, Minneapolis–St. Paul, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., have in common? They are all among the 20 largest metropolitan areas in the country. All of their populations were growing in 2011. And then, in 2021, they all shrank by a combined 900,000 people, according to an analysis… → Read More