Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

How America’s ideal woman got jacked

A lot of people are getting jacked these days, and it’s not just who you would think. For men, muscles have always been a symbol of brute strength and power. In our current era, that’s manifesting in their desire to get as chiseled as possible with a strict regimen of lifting and proteinmaxxing. But lately, […]

Trump is deporting way fewer people than Obama did. Why?

President Donald Trump promised his supporters “the largest deportation program in American history” — but he’s nowhere close.  That distinction belongs to an early 20th-century program that likely saw 2 million people deported. When looking at more recent times, it’s President Barack Obama — once dubbed by immigrant advocates “the deporter in chief” — who […]

Can you still trust the US government’s vaccine recommendations?

For the past 60 years, a committee of independent experts has advised the federal government on vaccine policy, providing guidance on which shots people should get and when. Government public health officials have almost always followed the panel’s recommendations, all but making it the final word on public health policy in the US for most […]

What broke teenage romance?

Ren, 18, describes herself as “a big romantic.” Like so many teen girls who came before her, she loves love: Ren is obsessed with rom-coms, develops crushes quickly, and dissects texts from boys with her friends. But, like many of her friends, she hasn’t dated anyone; as a rising sophomore in college in New York, […]

Scientists are dropping live mosquitoes out of drones in Hawaii. Here’s why.

It sounds like something out of a nightmare: a giant drone flying through the sky and dropping containers full of live, buzzing mosquitoes, one of the world’s most hated insects. But in Hawaii, this scenario is very much real. A remotely operated aircraft, about 8 feet long, is flying over remote forests in Maui and […]