Francine McCarthy, center, of Brock University monitors core removal at Crawford Lake on April 12, 2023, in Ontario. McCarthy is a member of the Anthropocene Working Group. | Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe battle proves that time is political, any way you cut it. Scientists dealt a resounding blow this week in a long-running fight over one big question: Have humans messed up the Earth so badly... Read more ›
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Nvidia, founded in California in 1993, originally made chips mainly used for gaming. | Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe company you might not have heard of is now worth $2 trillion — more than Google or Amazon. Only four companies in the world are worth over $2 trillion. Apple, Microsoft, the oil company Saudi Aramco — and, as of 2024, Nvidia. It’s understandable if the name doesn’t ring a bell.... Read more ›
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Tim Lahan for VoxGLP-1 drugs like Ozempic turn down the dial on our loudest desires — seemingly for more than just food. Marco Leyton, PhD, assures me the cocaine he purchased was legal. Plus, it wasn’t for him. Definitely not. It was for recreational cocaine users who had answered Leyton’s ad in a local newspaper to do drugs and collect 500 Canadian dollars — for science. Leyton had jumped through... Read more ›
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Mark Robinson, lieutenant governor of North Carolina, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on February 22, 2024. | Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRobinson has denied the Holocaust, opposed women’s suffrage, threatened to use his AR-15 against the government, and more. The Republican Party under Donald Trump has habitually elevated extreme right-wing candidates who can’t find enough support outside of hardcore partisans to win elections.. Read more ›
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Jason Palmer, a businessperson, won the Democratic American Samoa primary.A businessman and lesser-known candidate, Palmer wants to focus on “pass[ing] the torch.” On Tuesday, President Joe Biden experienced his only primary loss in the cycle thus far. In the US territory of American Samoa, Biden lost narrowly to a relative unknown: businessman Jason Palmer. It’s a surprising defeat, but not one that will have a major effect on the broader... Read more ›
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People gather outside the Stonewall Inn on February 26, 2024 in New York City for a memorial and vigil for Nex Benedict, the Oklahoma teenager who died following a fight in a high school bathroom. | Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesA trans teen is dead. The state he lived in made his life as hard as possible. We know a gender-nonconforming teen in an Oklahoma high school is dead. We don’t know... Read more ›
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We don’t like the two-party system. So why do we have it? America’s two-party system is widely hated. Very few Americans think the two major parties do an adequate job representing them, and most say more parties are needed. But when it comes time to vote, very few people vote for third-party candidates. Often, this is explained as either a failure of will (the country would have third parties if... Read more ›
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The Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket lifts off from launch pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on November 16, 2022. | Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesBe warned: “Extensive” travel required. And your eyesight may never recover. Being an astronaut comes with unique occupational challenges. What other job puts you at risk for your eyeball physically changing shape in microgravity, leading to permanent changes in eyesight?... Read more ›
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Nikki Haley waves to supporters in Texas. | Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesIf Republicans ever figure out how to nominate a normal human, Democrats could be in trouble. Donald Trump and Joe Biden are among the most unpopular politicians in their respective parties. And yet, both routed their competition in Super Tuesday’s primary elections. On Wednesday morning, the only other halfway plausible presidential candidate in the 2024 race, Nikki Haley,... Read more ›
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Trump speaks at a campaign rally. | Nic Antaya/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTrump’s inevitable romp to victory revealed how strong his hold on the GOP is — and how dangerous he remains to democracy. With Nikki Haley’s withdrawal from the Republican primary after getting crushed on Super Tuesday, it’s official: Donald Trump will be the party’s nominee for the presidency. At this point, this should be a surprise to exactly no... Read more ›
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MelkiNimages viaGetty ImagesTikTok’s “how old do I look?” trend is exacerbating fears that people have had for generations. I keep seeing people asking the internet, “How old do I look?” Each time, I want to tell them, “No, don’t do that, you’re going to get your feelings hurt,” not because people in the comments will be truthful but because they will be mean, on purpose, for sport. The trend isn’t... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesAnthropologists are now showing how culture impacts psychedelic experiences. Not everything that affects a psychedelic experience can be controlled in clinical trials. Psychedelic researchers are paying more and more attention to the idea that the “set and setting” of a trip can impact the experience, like asking what genre of music is most conducive to helping psilocybin therapy participants quit smoking. But a full accounting of a psychedelic experience’s... Read more ›
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US food prices continue to increase despite cooling inflation. | Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty ImagesHere are some levers the administration can pull to rein in food inflation. Over the last few years a new topic for small talk has emerged in America, one that bridges race, class, and geography: the infuriatingly high price of groceries. The rate of inflation has dramatically slowed down in recent months, but the price of... Read more ›
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A Trump 2024 flag waves at a “Freedom Rally” in support of Cubans demonstrating against their government in Miami on July 17, 2021. | Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP via Getty ImagesBoth Democrats and Republicans are considering making a change, but it’s Biden’s party that has more to lose. Since 2020, one of the major questions hanging over the 2024 election is whether Latino voters will continue to ditch Democrats in favor... Read more ›
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Nikki Haley waves to supporters in Texas. | Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesIf Republicans ever figure out how to nominate a normal human, Democrats could be in trouble. Donald Trump and Joe Biden are among the most unpopular politicians in their respective parties. And yet, both routed their competition in Super Tuesday’s primary elections. Unless either man dies or abruptly retires, they will both be on the presidential ballot this... Read more ›
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This is Bradley Cooper’s face. | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagicMaestro’s Oscar campaign has shown us the real Bradley Cooper: He’s a try-hard. Where were you when you realized that you knew too much about Bradley Cooper? Was it when he revealed he spent six years studying conducting to perform as Leonard Bernstein in his auteurist Netflix original film Maestro? Or perhaps it was the time he cried in front of Bernstein’s surviving family.... Read more ›
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Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds at the opening of the NPC, or National People’s Congress, at the Great Hall of the People on March 5, 2024, in Beijing, China | Kevin Frayer/Getty ImagesXi Jinping is ignoring the country’s biggest economic problems. The Chinese government outlined on Monday its plan to boost the country’s sluggish economic growth, but experts say it fell short of the kind of transformative strategy necessary to... Read more ›
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Jumping spiders in the family Salticidae, like this one, are known to prey on crop pests. | Jan Rozehnal/Getty Images/iStockphotoA new study shows how wild predators like spiders support human food systems. For those of us who live in a city or suburb and don’t farm our own food, it can be hard to understand how wild animals affect our lives. Natural resources like fresh drinking water and vegetables are... Read more ›
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A crew member checks the torpedos in a nuclear submarine on December 5, 2016, in Île Longue, off the west of France. | Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty ImagesThe debate over “Euronukes,” explained. At the height of the Cold War in 1961, French President Charles de Gaulle famously questioned the value of American security guarantees, asking then-President John F. Kennedy if the US would really be willing to “trade New York... Read more ›
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Vartika Sharma for VoxMedications can help the 1 in 12 people who suffer from alcohol use disorder. But most will never be treated. There is something that kills more Americans every year than drug overdoses, than guns, than car accidents. It’s legal, doesn’t require a background check to buy, is widely advertised, and if you’re 21, you can probably buy it at your corner store. It’s called alcohol. While cold... Read more ›
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