Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Inflation in September fell below target in the UK and the eurozone, and dropped to the lowest since early 2021 in the US, hurray! Yet, another common trend that matters a lot for households went […]
NEW YORK — The Los Angeles Dodgers are taking it to the New York Mets in Game 4 of the NLCS at Citi Field on Thursday night (GameTracker), and leading the way is, well, Shohei Ohtani. The presumptive NL MVP slugged a leadoff home run in Game 4 and has reached base four times through […]
This is a special end-of-meteorological-summer installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast. Galen Druke speaks with pollsters Kristen Soltis Anderson and David Byler in an episode made entirely of “good or bad use of polling” examples. They consider why GOP primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy polls differently depending on survey methodology, what we can learn from post-debate […]
Air drying has become a more favorable approach to caring for your hair in recent years—it was rumored to make each strand stronger and healthier. But here’s a surprising fact: Air drying can cause more damage to your hair than blow drying it, depending on your technique. “It may seem counterintuitive since we’re all aware […]
They’re billed a flat sandalbut they do have a closed toe — and when you can actually see the supportive arch and molded, memory foam cork footbed, I’d say they’re worth including on this list. Promising reviews: “I love these Athlefit shoes. They are beautiful and comfortable, and they fit perfectly, lightweight with good arch […]
Meta has a suggestion for folks like me who forgot to go outside and look at the Northern Lights on Thursday night: just use AI to fake it! But Threads users who replied to Meta’s idea, posted along with three AI-generated images of the Aurora Borealis Meta last night, seem to disagree. The images show […]
When you think of what makes us human, would you say it’s our powers of prediction? I probably wouldn’t have, at least not until my conversation with Mark Miller, a philosopher of cognition and research fellow at both the University of Toronto and Monash University in Melbourne. He studies how new ideas about the mind […]
Hiring someone to carry your baby to term is a booming business. The market for surrogacy is expected to expand to $129 billion by 2032, fueled by older parents, rising infertility, and more same-sex families. Silicon Valley contributes to the growth too: Tech companies like Google, Meta, and Snap pitch in up to $80,000 toward […]
The cookie sandwich brand’s videos — funny, disturbing, fever-dreamlike — rack up tens of millions of views. The secret is lots of lore without much sense, the campaign’s strategists explain.
Not many contemporary actors can channel a Bond villain quite like Rami Malek. In 2021’s No Time to Diehe masked up as the slightly insane but slickly dressed Lyutsifer Safin—and while a lot’s happened since then, the actor is still checking into good bad-guy fits. At the Saint Laurent runway show during Paris Fashion Week […]
