A Cambridge researcher recently ranked tofu as the top protein source based on nutrition, affordability, availability, and environmental impact. This sparked the usual chorus of folks who write off tofu as being tasteless, etc., but my experiences have been quite different. So I went back to my old food Instagram [...]

While going through my older iPhone photos, I realized quite a few were of our strange surroundings and circumstances from the strictest COVID times during 2020. May they not return. Bare shelves at a Publix March 15, 2020 Colbert’s first at-home show March 18, 2020 News coverage March–July, 2020   [...]

For me, the most exciting part of the 2022 NBA All-Star Weekend — far more exciting than the defense-less games and the yawn-fest dunk contest — was seeing members of NBA 75 at center court. Many athletic greats from my youth together in one place. Rodman being Rodman. The roar [...]

Nearly 20 years later, we’re still searching for the little blue pill for learning. [...]

As the U.S. continues to struggle with its growing opiate-painkiller problem (33,000 deaths in 2015, the most ever, and an annual $78.5 billion price tag on abuse), physicians and policymakers are ramping up their pushes on alternatives for patients seeking pain relief. In 2016, St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center — [...]

More than a decade ago, Discover covered the concept of a coffee-maker-like device that could, overnight, turn a few animal muscle stem cells into a nice hunk of meat. The July 2006 story, “The Way of All Flesh,” explains the vision of biologist Vladimir Mironov: Those muscle cells would be [...]