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Welcome to Anxious Carnivores, a mini-series about the changing culture around meat consumption. Despite growing pressures to quit meat, many Americans can’t quite do so—but they’re getting weirder and weirder about how they eat it.In the second-to-last episode of The Last of Us, protagonist Ellie finds herself at the mercy of the leader of a religious community on
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The ranks of the wealthiest people on the planet include 7 self-made Americans, a French luxury goods tycoon and French cosmetics heiress, and a Mexican telecom magnate. Last update: May 1, 2023, 10:30 A.M. EDT Billionaires are some of the most powerful people on Earth, wielding significant influence over huge parts of the global economy
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Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images They’re $200 billion poorer than last year, but still worth $2.1 trillion. It was a down year for many of the planet’s 2,640 billionaires–including those at the very top of the top. The richest people in the world are worth a collective $2.1 trillion, according to Forbes’ World’s
Read moreJoshua Bergen is a very productive person. His secret is the workspace app Notion. Bergen, a product manager living in Vancouver, uses it to plan trips abroad in meticulous detail, with notes and timelines. He uses it to curate lists of the movies and TV shows he’s watched, and records what he thought of them.
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Office workers devote 40 more minutes a week to mentoring, 25 more minutes on formal training Author of the article: Bloomberg News Matthew Boyle Published Apr 16, 2023 • 2 minute read People walk through a busy midtown Manhattan, in New York City. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Workers in the office spend 25 per cent more
Read moreThis article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. I’ve spent the last few days thinking about how, when, and if we should use gene-editing tools to change the human genome. These are huge questions, and very emotive ones—especially when it
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It was not particularly surprising when The New York Times gave the iconic, mostly French restaurant Le Bernardin four stars this week. After all, the fine dining spot has held the Times’ highest star rating since opening in New York in 1986. Yet, compared to his 2012 ode to the same restaurant, critic Pete Wells seemed a little on edge about
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People who eat alone tend to age faster, a study suggests, perhaps because it enforces feelings of isolation and depression. The study by Samsung Medical Center and Kyunghee University Medical Center covered 2,072 people aged 70 to 84. It measured frailty and aging in terms of weight loss, fading muscular strength, fatigue, slower walking speed and decreased
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