“Will Starving Yourself Help You Live Longer?”

“The parallel monkey studies are some of the most important and closely watched experiments on aging to be conducted in our lifetimes. It was expected, even assumed, that the NIA results would show that caloric restriction extended longevity — the…

“For cholesterol study volunteer, an unsettling discovery in a Science paper: herself”

“What health information do researchers owe the volunteers in their studies, especially when it’s not clear what it means and whether or how to act on it? And should researchers…

“Food tech is just men rebranding what women have done for decades”

“Almost all Silicon Valley food innovation is just rebranding what women have been doing for decades. There’s nothing inherently different about Soylent from SlimFast at all. And yet SlimFast is low-brow, funny…

“More on the enigma of blindness and psychosis”

“No cases were found were people had a diagnosis of schizophrenia and were congenitally cortically blind — where blindness was caused by problems with the brain’s visual system.

What this new study provides is weak…

“Nature Editorial: Socio-economic inequality in science is on the rise”

“The good news is that science is keeping up with modern trends. The bad news is that trend seems to be towards wider inequality, fewer opportunities for those from more disadvantaged backgrounds and a…

“Google Is Transforming NYC’s Payphones Into a ‘Personalized Propaganda Engine’”

“That LinkNYC is, ultimately, underwritten by Google should tell you a lot about why New York got so very lucky as to receive an unprecedentedly fast network of citywide public Wi-Fi — for…

“Pain Is Not a Game, But VR Games May Help With America’s Opioid Addiction”

“With few alternative treatments available, that “something” too often meant the reflexive prescription of opioids. It didn’t help that, at the time, Purdue Pharmaceuticals aggressively marketed…

“How to Hope in Graduate School”

“CV’ing up with the Joneses. Maybe you’re in your cubicle. You’re happily doing research on your next chapter when you overhear that so-and-so placed an article in a major journal, or won a prestigious fellowship. Suddenly your whole day changes. You’ve got to finish that…