The FTX implosion sent a tsunami barreling through the crypto market this week. Forbes replays, in galling detail, how Sam Bankman-Fried’s cult of genius fooled everyone. This led me to read about effective altruism, the philanthropic movement embraced by "the benevolent billionaire." Next, get some sobering stats about the flu season so far, followed by another medical piece about 10,000 brains in a basement in Denmark, which used to be the lobotomy capital of the world.
Crypto insiders paint a picture of a charismatic tech founder who became the darling of high-powered investors, even as he was brazen about his cryptocurrency exchange’s shaky business model and kept the books closed to all but a few confidants. Well before the catastrophic collapse of his FTX …
Oregon 6th Congressional District candidate Carrick Flynn seemed to drop out of the sky. With a stint at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, a …
Here’s how to prepare for it. Flu season is here — and early red flags suggest it’s on track to be very, very bad. The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Flu View report show extraordinarily high numbers of positive flu tests reported to the agency from labs …
CNN — For years, there had been whispers. Rumors swirled; stories exchanged. It wasn’t a secret, but it also wasn’t openly discussed, adding to a legend almost too incredible to believe. Yet those who knew the truth wanted it out. Tell everyone our story, they said, about the brains in the basement. A …
Extreme weather is increasingly in the news these days. We’re accustomed to hearing about unusually strong hurricanes, tornadoes and even the polar …
The long read: Moss is ancient, and grows at a glacial pace, but it lives alongside us everywhere, country and city, a witness to the human world and its catastrophic speed. What can we learn by tuning in to ‘moss time’?
The fourth season of Leave It to Beaver opens with a haunting line: “Beaver, eat your Brussels sprouts.” The directive comes from Mrs. Cleaver, who …
There are plenty of striking examples of hotel interior design out there—yet there are far fewer with interiors so thought-out that they actually changed the design conversation. We wanted to go beyond surface-level looks and dig deeper into the legacies of the …
These books may be brief, but they use their limited word count to demonstrate the power of concision. The novelist Cynan Jones once wrote that in brief fiction, “every word is doing a job. So pay attention. A short novel is an event, not a trip.” The Swedish Academy recognized that this week when …
