Sherry Turkle's Plugged-In Year
For the New Yorker, a profile of MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle and an exploration of what we owe one another, in person and on the screen.
Rampant Wildfires Once Led to Mass Extinction. Can it Happen Again?
New research into the role fire played in history's greatest extinction offers insights into what our fiery future portends.
In Lockdown, an 86-Year-Old Blogger Finds an Audience and a New Purpose
How an elderly London widow conquered isolation and earned a global audience of fans along the way.
Feeling Scatterbrained? Here's Why
For the New York Times, a look at the ways the chronic stress of quarantine changes behavior and the body.
The robot that could change the senior care industry
A robot and a team of Irish scientists walk into a nursing home. The rest is in this October 2019 Time cover story.
What do we look for in a 'good' robot colleague?
A growing share of us work with robots in their daily lives. There are times when we cut robots slack we wouldn't for humans—and times when they annoy us more.
Robots will probably help care for you when you're old
When cognition starts to decline with age, what's the most ethical way to integrate robots and reality?
Inside the highly experimental, loosely regulated world of for-profit body donation
Months before Reuters, I tracked the shady world of for-profit tissue donation—starting at a very unusual place.
I let Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson run my life for a week
Unpacking the secrets of the man shoving us all a little closer to greatness. See what the Rock said about this story here.
To actually have a successful marriage with two careers, rethink everything you’re doing now
Navigating a dual-career marriage can sometimes feel like a zero-sum game. Can we do better?
The highly profitable, deeply adorable, and emotionally fraught world of Instagram’s famous animals
A look at the complicated relationships between famous pets and the humans who love them.
MeToo hijacked black women’s work on race and gender equality
When the experiences of victims who are white, wealthy, and privileged are prioritized over those who are not.
Ice, ice melting
A report from Greenland, where climate change is already changing the landscape and people's lives.
Queen Elizabeth II owns all of the UK’s swans. And every year, she counts them
A mad, mad ride with the crown’s official swan census.
How Close Is Humanity to the Edge?
This New Yorker piece examines the possibility of humanity's extinction, and why it's worth being optimistic about the greatest threat of all.
A Drought So Bad It Exposed a Homicide
As a metaphor for the uncomfortable truths California's drought has exposed, the body in the barrel is a little too apt.
Companies Can't Stop Overworking
This piece for DealBook gets into the social and psychological reasons why the grueling schedules at blue-chip firms won't go away anytime soon.
Quarantine Anyone? When Everyday Drinking Becomes a Problem
This piece looks at how chronic stress and isolation can shift formerly benign drinking habits in a different direction.
Welcome to the new midlife crisis
Taffy Brodesser-Akner said she wished she'd read this piece on midlife before writing Fleishman Is In Trouble, and that was the happiest I've ever been on Twitter.
A.I. Is Here to Calm Your Road Rage
Scientists let me test drive their prototype therapy car, one of several emerging technologies that make life behind the wheel healthier and easier.
How AI changed organ donation in the US
Paired kidney exchange is one of AI's greatest success stories—and a perfect example of its limits.
Why everyone around the world is having the same nightmare
This story explores the science of sleep paralysis—and the fascinating reasons why the same nightmarish figures appear in dreams around the globe.
Selling US-themed souvenirs used to be straightforward. Then Trump got elected
How a humble gift shop chain ended up on the frontlines of a culture war.
The psychology behind why couples always fight when assembling Ikea furniture
On a good day, we avoid blame and take the enlightened view. An Ikea day is another story.
This man used to hunt Belfast Catholics with a .357 Magnum. Here’s his story
A former paramilitary grapples with age, regret, and redemption. Part of my series When Terror Gets Old.
Everything about this ridiculous “CNN Nutrition” ad is a lie
One of two pieces dissecting an absurd—and dangerous—viral scam.
A stressed, sleep-deprived couple accidentally invented the modern alien abduction phenomenon
Their experience birthed a genre, and says a lot about why we believe what we do.
