Profits Over Patients?
Lithium’s been elevated from taboo to wonder cure for cognitive decline. What other breakthroughs are we missing because Big Pharma focuses on the next big thing? Forget biotech moonshots. The newest hope for Alzheimer’s disease prevention and reversal isn’t a billion-dollar drug, it’s the mineral lithium. Yep, that one. Potentially explosive in lithium-ion batteries, but […]
Meet Your New Money Coach: AI. She Doesn’t Judge.
Smart, speedy, occasionally wrong: How to use AI for money questions without blowing up your plan. Step one: Inherit a fortune. Step two: Ask a chatbot what to do with it. Step three: Almost disinherit your children. Welcome to the brave new world of AI financial advice: smart-ish, fast, and occasionally tone-deaf. Cary Carbonaro, a […]
It’s Not Them. It’s You. Why You’re Failing at Online Dating.
Here’s what dating coach Andrea McGinty tells women over 50 who complain about online dating: The problem isn’t the apps, the sites, or the men. It’s you. “People aren’t taking responsibility,” the author of 2nd Acts: The World’s Leading Online Dating Expert Shares 166 Practical No-Nonsense, Step-by-Step Approaches to Romance, said bluntly. “You don’t know […]
EVs Explained: Minus the Mansplaining
Electric vehicles are everywhere now—silent, smug, and taking up the good parking spots at Whole Foods. Your neighbor has one. Your book club is divided. Somewhere, a car salesman is practicing his pitch about how “ladies love the quiet ride.” Here’s the thing: You’re a grown woman who’s made bigger decisions than what to drive. […]
The Men Building AI Don’t Understand Women—and That’s Our Problem
While we’re told we “don’t get” technology, men are programming our future. I’m tired of the “women don’t understand technology” bullshit. You know the trope: the clueless woman in a sitcom clicking random buttons while a smirking man swoops in to fix it. It’s tired, patronizing—and it’s everywhere. While we’re dismissed as too confused to […]
Spilling the Tea with ChatGPT: The Hidden Dangers of AI Chatbots
Generative AI chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Gemini, from Google, often make terrific virtual assistants. “Generative” means that the bots can construct responses based on the vast data they can access. In seconds, they whip up recipes using whatever’s about to go bad in our fridge, and we shoot back needless replies such as, […]
Brain Rot: Word of the Year or Scrolling Yourself Stupid?
How long have you been scrolling before landing here? Have you been ignoring family members and avoiding the dishes in the sink while slumping in comfy sweats, praying your phone battery survives just one more TikTok? If your right thumb has a cramp from relentless scrolling, or you clicked “What happens when you eat kimchi […]
