Stories by vo2maxer

A Global Tipping Point for Reining in Tech Has Arrived

Psilocybin Therapy May Work as Well as Common Antidepressant

The Birthplace of AI: The 1956 Dartmouth Workshop

The 15th-Century Wool Worker’s Son Who Made Books for Princes and Popes

How the Largest Animals That Could Ever Fly Supported Giraffe-Like Necks

‘It’s a Roller-Coaster Ride’: Global Chip Shortage Is Making Industries Sweat

‘Master,’ ‘Slave’ and the Fight over Offensive Terms in Computing

The Last Time a Vaccine Saved America

Nvidia to Make Central Processing Units, Going After Intel

Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chemical may be to blame

Florida’s Crisis Highlights a Nationwide Risk from Toxic Ponds

The Price of Distraction

Linz’s Klemens Brosch: A Genius for Drawing

New research cracks the mystery of how the first continents formed

Paul Erdős (2000)

Math papers everyone should read

Phantosmia

Bodies: Alice Roberts traces how knowledge of anatomy has grown and changed

They Had Mild Covid. Then Their Serious Symptoms Kicked In

The Ever-Growing Challenges of Getting Books into Prisons

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