Should you spend your money on retirement or give it to your kids?
Hi readers! Shayla Love here, science journalist and longtime fan of Your Mileage May Vary. I’m honored to…
Nithya Raman’s plan to build more housing in Los Angeles
Los Angeles offers one of the most vivid examples of our nation’s broken housing system: a quintessentially American…
A new cholesterol pill could change the fight against heart disease
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a small pill called enlicitide. It is a tablet…
Why climate adaptation matters as heat and wildfire smoke worsen
In 2019, the AI researcher Rich Sutton published a short essay called “The Bitter Lesson.“ Seventy years of…
The Trump admin’s biofuels policy could be a disaster for the world’s rainforests
The modern soybean is one of the world’s miracle technologies, capable of cheaply, efficiently, and healthfully supplying protein…
The breakthrough changing how Americans donate organs
Emily Hoffman was walking home from lunch in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Squirrel Hill in February 2023, when…
Gracie the giraffe: Why are exotic animals in Texas?
In mid-June, a giraffe named Gracie escaped from a ranch in Texas located about 100 miles west of…
Cancer progress is real: Survival hits 70% as the field turns
In a darkened convention hall in Chicago on May 31, a Harvard oncologist named Brian Wolpin stood at…
How to make the most important choice of your life
The average person works 80,000 hours over the course of their career. Ideally, that time should be fulfilling,…
New York Design Month’s Small, Beautiful Objects
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Matthew Gordon, David Sierra, Carbon Stories, Leah Verway There’s a certain scale at which the…