Apparently, an increasing number of men are cooking meals at home. That's right. Men. In kitchens. Preparing food. Using ...

I suspect we may eventually look back at Google's latest quantum computing breakthrough in a similar way. On October 15, 2026 ...

Taylor Swift has released a 13-second preview of her “Patient Zero” music video. Thirteen seconds. I have spent longer deciding whether to skip an ad for something I was never going to buy. Yet here I ...

I read the phrase “Claude-shaped science” and immediately pictured a laboratory being remodeled around a chatbot’s preferences. The benches would be rearranged, the microscopes would receive ...

I thought we were building better software. Apparently, somewhere between autocomplete and artificial general intelligence, Silicon Valley decided it needed to reinvent theology. That is roughly where ...

He was 86 years old. And apparently this is the part where everybody is supposed to lower their voice, rearrange their face into something appropriately solemn, and begin discussing his “complicated ...

I have always assumed that when I send money to the federal government, it disappears into the vast digestive system of American bureaucracy, where it is eventually transformed into aircraft carriers, ...

I have a particularly soft spot for any company that looks at a complicated hobby and asks whether people might enjoy it more without an entrance exam. Photography could certainly use that ...

For a long time, the geography of LGBTQ America seemed almost preprinted. You could practically buy the map at the airport gift shop. San Francisco. New York. Los Angeles. Palm Springs. Provincetown.

I love the version of solo travel that exists before anyone actually leaves the house. In that version, I am sitting outside a European café, wearing something effortlessly sophisticated, reading a ...

I used to think the most complicated part of shopping was figuring out whether I actually needed something. Apparently, that was an embarrassingly primitive concern. Now I am supposed to consider ...

I used to think of fall as the season when the garden started shutting down. Tomatoes slowed down. Summer flowers faded. The sun disappeared earlier every evening, and gardening gradually turned into ...