What separates the best endurance athletes from everyone else isn’t their amazing lab test data or power values—it’s how well they maintain those values after a few hours of exhausting exercise When the lab data from Nike’s Breaking2 marathon project was finally published last fall, the most
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A man sits next to you on an airplane. He looks familiar—is he an amnesiac who’s wandered miles from home? A woman in line at the grocery store seems to be stealing furtive glances. Could she be the missing heir to a fortune ... or a murderer?
Scenario 1: suppose you’ve been gazing intensely at Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait (1659), which hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and later you’re told that this was actually a painting made by a deep-learning machine that had internalised Rembrandt’s style through exposure
If the immune system ran its own version of The Bachelor, antibodies would, hands down, get this season’s final rose. These Y-shaped molecules have acquired some star-caliber celebrity in the past year, due in no small part to COVID-19.
By the time mental ill health is visible, it’s probably very bad. The best risk assessment is to listen rather than look.
The promise of easy money brought Jim Russell to a bar at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. Russell, a steel company executive from Las Vegas, had come to meet Zachary Horwitz, a low-level actor seeking investors for his film company.
The thorny thought experiment has been turned into a real experiment — one that physicists use to probe the physics of information. The universe bets on disorder. Imagine, for example, dropping a thimbleful of red dye into a swimming pool.
Educational psychologist Kenneth Kiewra has some advice to help you retain and remember more.
The remains of two Black children killed in an infamous 1985 Philadelphia police bombing have gone missing, with two Ivy League universities unable to confirm their whereabouts. City lawmakers last year issued a formal apology for the attack on MOVE, a Black liberation advocacy group.
I think often of those eight minutes of the 2017 Oscars where the thing that no one ever considered might happen actually happened.
She is the first person you check in with when you arrive. It is with her that you grab a quick and unsatisfying lunch, where you both vent about the indignities of the workday thus far.
If you only focus on the task, there’s always an easier one. But the pestering task often has the greater reward.
Licensing issues have gutted the soundtracks of many beloved series on streaming services, resulting in bewildering music cues and missing theme songs.
From the first female congresswoman elected in 1917 to the four women who took the stage during a recent presidential debate, dressing as a political candidate has never been simple.
Up all night with the hardcore drivers who block off city streets and highways to revel in the high-speed thrills of illegal drag racing.
Loaded with crispy bacon bits, extra-sharp cheddar cheese, and chives. The biscuits come out perfectly flaky and buttery every time.
Pauline Dakin's childhood in Canada in the 1970s was full of secrets, disruption and unpleasant surprises. She wasn't allowed to talk about her family life with anyone - and it wasn't until she was 23 that she was told why.
For a few months in 1880, entire swaths of the United States succumbed to an addiction the likes of which had never been seen.
From The Harlem Renaissance to Flarf Poetry.