This year, just like last year, the nearly 200,000 kids in Chicago’s public elementary schools spent recess indoors during the first week of school, when the heat index […]
The Real Lesson of Jay Varma’s COVID Sex-Party Scandal
In conversations caught on hidden camera, New York City’s former COVID czar said that he’d organized a pair of sex parties in the second half of 2020, as […]
Doctors Said These Women’s Mutated Genes Wouldn’t Harm Them
Deb Jenssen never wanted her children to suffer from the disease that killed her brother at 28. The illness, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, initially manifests in childhood as trouble […]
An Unexpected Window Into the Trump Campaign
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The Cost of Avoiding Microplastics
A placenta is, by definition, new tissue: It grows from scratch over nine months of pregnancy. So when a team of researchers found microplastics in every human placenta […]
The Secret to Getting Men to Wear Hearing Aids
Richard Einhorn first noticed that he was losing his hearing in a way that many others do—through a missed connection, when he couldn’t make out what a colleague […]
A Fix for Antibiotic Resistance Could Be Hiding in The Past
This article was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Peering through his microscope in 1910, the Franco-Canadian microbiologist Félix d’Hérelle noticed some “clear spots” in his bacterial cultures, an […]
Tua Tagovailoa’s Impossible Choice – The Atlantic
Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. A grim and all too familiar scene played out on Thursday night as the Miami Dolphins faced […]
What Abortion Bans Do to Doctors
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Kylie Cooper has seen all the ways a pregnancy can go […]
Trump’s Repetitive Speech Is a Bad Sign
Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Updated at 5:15 p.m. ET on September 13, 2024 Tuesday’s presidential debate was, among other things, an […]
Bird Flu Is Quietly Getting Scarier
Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Up until last Friday afternoon, a total of 13 people in the United States had officially come […]
A Food-Allergy Fix Hiding in Plain Sight
Tami McGraw used to be so allergic to red meat that even fumes from cooking might send her into anaphylactic shock. She couldn’t fry sausages for her family. […]