This NYT article discusses a few public school districts who have done an about face on their earlier bans of the technology. “Administrators say they are simply taking a pragmatic view: Students will need to learn how to prompt chatbots […]
This NYT reporter spent 24 non-consecutive hours in Facebook’s metaverse as research for this story. “My goal was to visit at every hour of the day and night, all 24 of them at least once, to learn the ebbs and […]
The NYT reports on this study: “Dr. Evershed and his colleagues found that Europeans were consuming milk without lactase for thousands of years, despite the misery from gas and cramping it might have caused.” | learn more (no paywall on this link)
The NYT headline is “Scientists find no benefit to time-restricted eating.” That’s a wildly broad interpretation of the actual study, which was conducted on 139 participants, all of whom were obese, and focused largely on weight loss. | learn more
A thread by Nathaniel Popper: “One fringe benefit of leaving the NYT is that I have been able to play around w/ owning and trading crypto for the first time. I’ve still got plenty of unanswered questions, but the big […]
From the NYT, this is a high level summary of the different tech on the horizon for extending life. “In the last century, the average human life expectancy doubled. Here’s a roadmap to the innovations that could help us do […]
Taylor Lorenz from the NYT tells readers about NewNew, PearPop, Stir, Rally.io, and Clout Market. If you, like me, hadn’t heard of any of them you might learn something here! | learn more
Private label is nothing new in retail, though the scale at which Amazon is doing it might be surprising to some (roughly 100 brands already). The NYT argues that it might also open the door to antitrust issues for them. | learn […]
This is published in the NYT opinion section, but interesting anyway. The author discusses the links between sugars, sugar substitutes, and germs that live in the microbiome. | learn more
I love avocados. This fun NYT piece sheds light on the history of avocados and their adoption globally (including China!). | learn more