The Problem With Diversity in Computing
Tech’s discriminatory culture might never change, no matter how many women and people of color are invited into the room.
Ideas 2019
Dispatches from the Aspen Ideas Festival/Aspen Ideas: Health
The Yale Happiness Class, Distilled
The psychology professor Laurie Santos delivers the “shortest possible crash-course version” of the university’s most popular course ever.
Should Human Feces Be Regulated Like a Drug?
A fecal-transplant patient has unexpectedly died just as the FDA is deciding the future of the unconventional procedure.
The Startling Rise of Choking During Sex
A quarter of women in the U.S. report feeling scared during sex.
What It Means for Health Care to Be a Human Right
To protect a population’s health, governments might have to think beyond access to care.
The Pediatrician’s Most Awkward Task
Can doctors teach people how to parent?
A Brit’s Advice for the U.S. Health-Care System
An expert on the National Health Service says the reason America doesn’t have universal coverage might be a difference in mind-set.
Human Lives Might Be Long Enough Already
Humanity has added three decades to people’s life spans in the past 150 years. Science is only beginning to catch up.
Is #MeToo Too Big?
Tarana Burke, the movement’s founder, wants it to return to its original—and specific—purpose: to serve as a counter to sexual violence.
What Classical Music Can Learn From Kanye West
Whether or not Ye was forward-thinking, the musicians behind the Yeethoven project want to bring two very different genres together.