Kristen French

Philosopher Lucy Osler on the insidious appeal of AI Chatbots

Colorectal cancer in young people has been rising for 30 years. We still don't know why—and that's killing people.

People who have enmeshed attachments may be more vulnerable to prolonged grief

Where’d you get that frog?

Religious “nones” may be less socially liberal than they used to be

AI consciousness expert Susan Schneider on being stalked by chatbot users, the Moltbook meltdown, and why agentic AI isn’t ready for prime time

Glacier tourism tends to do more harm than good, and when the glaciers are gone, local economies will have to adapt

In a time of perpetual crisis, more and more mothers are trying to find the solutions that their governments seem unwilling to provide

What happens to kids who experience terminal lucidity—and the caregivers who tend to them

“Sleeping on it” comes of age

A group in rural California wants to help us understand death through hallucinogens and narrative medicine

The ways in which sports betting and predictive markets are ruining lives