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The Lies and Falsifications of Oliver Sacks

In a recent bombshell piece for the New Yorker ( archive ), Rachel Aviv explored the personal journals of the celebrated neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks. What she found was shocking: he had fabricated and embellished some of his most well-known work — like Awakenings and

The Birth Keepers

"Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births–now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world."

The thing about chess

In a typical tournament, you don’t score any extra points for winning with the fewest number of moves. Quickly isn’t the point.

Why Coffee Makes You Go #2

James Hoffmann, the author of The World Atlas of Coffee and the creator of a coffee-centric YouTube channel, can tell you many things about coffee—from how to roast coffee, to the tools and techniques needed to make espresso, to the ultimate French Press technique. Then he can

Disclosure Day

Over his storied career, Steven Spielberg has made only four studio films about aliens: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET, War of the Worlds, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull — the outsized influence of the first two gives the impression that he’s

The Mayor Is Present

Marina Abramović is Zohran’s muse, the Whitney Biennial announces its exhibitors, the High Line replaces a giant pigeon with a huge Buddha, and more.

New Animated Version of Animal Farm?

Hmm, I really don’t know about this one : an animated adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm as a sort of Ice Age-ish comedy adventure? One commenter on YouTube says, “This movie is 100% gonna end with a random dance party scene with the pigs and humans dancing to something