What’s the point of living longer if we don’t live better?
Dilbert’s Scott Adams: Choose Your Immortality
Someday you’ll be a robot with a locket holding your last human cells
Will You Still Love Me When I’m 164?
Google’s plan to extend our life span will change love, work, and just about every aspect of society
Google’s Calico: the War on Aging Has Truly Begun
Google’s Calico project means that hearts and minds have been convinced that we can defeat aging
Putin’s Pawn: Forget Chess or Checkers — Obama Forfeited
History is longer than the news cycle or a term in office, writes the chess champion
What I Learned as a Porn Tagger
A lot of laws, like mandatory condoms, may have unexpected side effects
Mass Shootings Are on the Rise—and Falling
When it comes to sheer numbers, our rate for mass shootings is not what’s really troubling
Viewpoint: Stop Tearing Ourselves Up About Mass Killings
The search for motives in tragedies like the DC Navy Yard is pointless, argues an expert in mass homicide
Need to Remember Something? Make It Rhyme
Medical students have long used rhymes and songs to help them master vast quantities of information, and we’ve just gotten fresh evidence of how effective this strategy can be. A young British doctor, Tapas Mukherjee of Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, was distressed by a survey showing that 55% of nurses and doctors at Glenfield were …
Military Recruiters Have Gone Too Far
The Pentagon is using video games to infiltrate middle schools.
At University of Alabama, Sisterhood Is Prejudiced
Long-held ideas about white supremacy still play out in the sorority system
A Portrait of the Artist as a Predator
How can anyone see the work of J.D. Salinger, Woody Allen and Roman Polanski the same way once you know of their predilection for young girls?
Feminists Hang On Prince Dad’s Every Word
Young American women are smitten with Kate Middleton in spite of themselves. They’ll even watch an interview with her husband