Malcolm Gladwell sat down with Trevor Noah on the podcast What Now and spoke at length about the debate over trans women competing in women’s sports. Gladwell recalled moderating a sports analytics panel several years ago where the tension between those two sides became impossible to ignore. On one side was South African sports scientist … Read more
Palantir CEO Alex Karp spent a significant portion of his life in Germany, and in a recent conversation, he spoke about what that experience taught him about quality of life, social systems, and the difference between being poor in Europe versus being wealthy in America. Karp was direct about his personal experience: “I was poor … Read more
A growing number of young people in Japan are going under the surgical knife to reshape one of the human body’s most protected structures: the skull itself. The procedure, which involves shaving down the occipital bone at the back of the head by as much as 6 millimeters, has been circulating on Japanese social media, … Read more
When Sydney-based tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham learned that his eight-year-old staffy-shar pei mix, Rosie, had been given just months to live, he refused to accept that nothing more could be done. Instead, he opened his laptop and got to work. According to sources, Rosie, a rescue dog who had been abandoned in bushland before Conyngham … Read more
Financier Jeffrey Epstein has often been portrayed as a powerful figure operating his influence on wealth, politics, and technology. But according to internet culture reporter Ryan Broderick, the reality was far less sophisticated. Despite appearing connected to some of the internet’s most consequential developments, Epstein himself could barely use a computer. Broderick, author of the Garbage … Read more
Content creator Isabella Lanter recently talked about the growing trend of parent-managed child influencer accounts flooding platforms like TikTok and Instagram, and she is not holding back. “I unfortunately have come across parent-managed influencers that are children doing content, giving get ready with mes, chit-chatting to a camera, talking to thousands, some of the millions … Read more
Bill Burr built one of the most respected reputations in stand-up comedy over two decades. Known for his unapologetic style, he was the comedian who turned a booing Philadelphia crowd into cheering fans and sold out Fenway Park, Madison Square Garden, and Gillette Stadium on the strength of stand-up alone. Part of what made Burr … Read more
A rapidly growing Instagram account featuring an AI-generated rabbi has recently gone viral. The account goes by the username @rabbigoldman and is an AI influencer. According to Social Blade data, the account gained roughly 617,401 followers over just a two-week stretch in early March 2026, going from around 630,000 to nearly 1.25 million. Its biggest … Read more
There is a peptide that physicians are quietly prescribing to patients, athletes are covertly using to recover from injuries, and researchers have studied for decades in preclinical models, yet it will almost certainly never receive formal FDA approval. The reason has nothing to do with safety. It has everything to do with money. According to … Read more
A beloved Harry Potter fan fiction is on the verge of becoming the next major publishing event, as rights negotiations for “All the Young Dudes” reportedly center on a figure of £2.5 million. Reports circulating this week have been divided: one account suggests the auction reached that amount, while another claims a £2.5 million pre-emptive … Read more
