For three decades, we have held an image of Michael Jordan in our collective mind. It is an icon forged in fire, cast in steel, and polished to a defiant shine. It is the image of the Jumpman, silhouetted against the sky. It is the “Shrug” against Portland. It is the “Flu Game” in Utah. […]

In the bright, chaotic, and deafeningly loud new era of Formula 1, the American narrative has been defined by two things: spectacle and celebrity. First came Miami: a neon-pink, artificial-marina-infused party where the race itself felt secondary to the star-studded grid. Then came Las Vegas: a billion-dollar, self-promoted neon supernova, a Saturday night race down […]

In the long, operatic history of Formula 1, there has never been a transfer like this. Not Lauda to Ferrari, not Senna to Williams, not even Schumacher to Mercedes. Lewis Hamilton—the seven-time World Champion, the architect of the Mercedes dynasty, the knighted icon of British motorsport—will wear the scarlet red of Ferrari in 2025. It […]

The digital “all-clear” has sounded. Amazon has officially declared that its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud is “operating normally” following a catastrophic global outage. Across the world, a collective, digital sigh of relief is being exhaled. Engineering teams are taking their fingers off the panic button. Executives are watching their dashboards flicker back to green. […]

It started, as it always does, with a flicker. First, your work Slack or Teams chat couldn’t connect. Then, the internal database you needed to access spun endlessly. Annoyed, you took a break, only to find your smart speaker was unresponsive and your streaming service was down. You checked your banking app—it failed to load. […]

The vision for Artemis is one of the grandest ambitions in human history. It is not just a mission to leave footprints and flags, but to build a permanent, sustainable human presence on the Moon. It’s a multi-decade, multi-billion-dollar program involving the most powerful rocket ever built (SLS), a new generation of human-rated capsules (Orion), […]

For the last two years, the AI revolution has been a consumer-facing spectacle. We have been mesmerized by ChatGPT writing poetry, Midjourney creating art, and large language models (LLMs) passing the bar exam. This spectacular, public-facing “creator” boom has defined the narrative, sucking all the oxygen from the room. But while the world has been […]

For the entire history of medicine, its most fundamental rule has been immutable: to heal a patient, you must be in the room. From the first shamanistic rituals to the most advanced open-heart surgeries, the physical co-location of healer and patient has been the bedrock of care. That rule has just been shattered. In a […]

For all of our accumulated knowledge, for all our telescopes that pierce the veil of time and all our equations that describe the dance of atoms, modern science is haunted. We are haunted by a presence so vast it dictates the structure of the entire universe. It is the architect of galaxies, the sculptor of […]

We tell ourselves a comforting story about lead. We tell ourselves it’s a problem solved—a ghost of a dirtier, more industrial past. We celebrate the great public health victories of the 20th century: the banning of lead from gasoline in the 1970s, the prohibition of lead-based paint in 1978. We successfully removed the primary sources […]

For the past two years, the conversation about AI has been dominated by what happens on a screen. We’ve obsessed over large language models (LLMs) writing essays, diffusion models creating art, and AI copilots summarizing our meetings. The entire revolution, as transformative as it has been, has remained trapped behind the glass of our monitors […]

It began as a ripple of collective, low-grade panic. Sometime on a Monday, the digital assistants we had begun to treat as extensions of our own minds—our copilots, our research aides, our creative muses—simply went silent. Reports flooded social media: ChatGPT was down. Claude was unresponsive. Perplexity was spinning. For a few hours, the modern […]