My No-Soap, No-Shampoo, Bacteria-Rich Hygiene Experiment Credit... Artwork by Dan Cassaro. Photograph by Jens Mortensen for The New York Times. For most of my life, if I’ve thought at all about the ba

The author and his wife on vacation one month before her passing. The photo was taken by their son. Photo: Courtesy of Peter Bach The streetlights in Buenos Aires are considerably dimmer than they are

The winds on San Francisco Bay started kicking up in the late morning. Before long, they were blowing more than 20 miles an hour. Jimmy Spithill and his 10 teammates put on their crash helmets and flo

The room at the Bluestone Center for Clinical Research where patients take hallucinogens. (NYU) “Some of the things I’m about to say might not make sense,” began O.M., a 22-year-old cancer survivor. H

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A trio of boys tramps along the length of a wooden fence, back and forth, shouting like carnival barkers. “The Land! It opens in half an hour.” Down a path and across a grassy square, 5-year-old Dylan

On a bone-chilling morning in February last year, Nick Fernandez bundled up and took the subway from his Manhattan apartment to the Bluestone Center for Clinical Research, which is located in an art d

NYT quote in 1997: "It may be a hundred years before a computer beats humans at Go". Took 16 years. http://t.co/9EtJ1sDLnk

Years from now—maybe in a decade, maybe sooner—if all goes according to plan, the most complex machine ever built will be switched on in an Alpine forest in the South of France. The machine, called th

How was your day today? It’s such a simple, straightforward question. But in the chaos of daily living, you might forget to ask it. “This allows people to share specifics and stay connected on a day-t

(Photo: Irina Souiki ) I’ve wanted to publish this post for years. It will propose a few simple approaches for minimizing the occurrence of cancer. With 19 billion capillaries in our bodies, on averag

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Susan Lehman from the New York Times asked me to write an opinion piece for this sunday’s paper . Because… Susan liked what I had to say in my “ Why work doesn’t happen at work ” TEDx talk. Because… I

Employee benefits for technology companies are often focused around making people stay at office longer: Foosball tables, game rooms, on-site training rooms, gourmet chefs, hell, some even offer laund

For a bunch of people in snappy uniforms patting down crotches, the TSA is remarkably unpopular. Nobody likes going through security at the airport, but you probably figured most of it had a point. Al

Around 11:45 on the morning of Saturday, April 23, 2011, a young man wearing sunglasses and a blue hoodie walked into a U.S. Bank in Lyndhurst, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. His name was Nicholas Walke

Fantastic article on crazy ants, humans, and crazy humans trying to control ants by @jmooallem in @nytimes http://t.co/MQNND0FygA

This interview is brilliant - really brilliant - of all the startup bullshit out there this isn't a pile. http://t.co/1nUa6p4McF

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Why do some innovations spread so swiftly and others so slowly? Consider the very different trajectories of surgical anesthesia and antiseptics, both of which were discovered in the nineteenth century

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Why am I here? 2013-12-20 Looking around the room. “Why am I here?” It’s a useful question to ask often. Either it will re-focus your reasons for being where you are, or it will make you realize your

Eight days after I buried my mother, I learned that she wasconsidered indigent in the state of Colorado. This, above all else, broke my heart. Somehow, the knowledge that my motherwas officially poor

Let me tell you a story about my phone. Four times in the last few years, it has made a certain series of Noises. My current theory is that the Noises are generated when a critical mass of gays text one another at the same time. The first time, it was when Michael Jackson died and I was in a…

Human beings make terrible drivers. They talk on the phone and run red lights, signal to the left and turn to the right. They drink too much beer and plow into trees or veer into traffic as they swat

Samuel L. Jackson is one of Hollywood’s greatest special effects. Depending on the movie and the role, the actor, who has appeared in more than 100 films since his first in 1972, brilliantly calibrates the required intensity of flash and firepower. As the hit man in Pulp Fiction, he roars his…

Mother, Siblings Charged After 6-Year-Old Boy Found Dead WHAT HAPPENED? The body of Damari Perry was found near an abandoned house in Gary, Indiana, after his family claimed he disappeared from a part

Published in the August 2013 issue et's face it, the guy is ridiculous. He's ridiculously handsome. He's ridiculously accomplished. He's ridiculously smart. He's ridiculously kind to those in need of

Credit: Photograph by Howard Schatz Hey, man, cancel everything. We're hanging with Rick Rubin tonight. You know Rick, right? No? Check your iTunes playlist. Kid Rock. LL Cool J. Metallica. Jay-Z. All Rick's audio kids. He once had Tom Petty write songs using refrigerator-magnet words! Dude is Phil…

Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg—who is 63 with a long, graying beard—recently sat down with me to explain what he described as a "child-rape assembly line" among sects of fundamentalist Jews. He cleared his th

Published in the June/July 2013 issue of Esquire. Brad Pitt won't remember you. If you've met him, he'll have no idea who you are when he meets you again. Even if you've had what he calls "a real conv