How we live, eat, dress, argue and gather.

Culture · Opinion
Hammers to the cheekbones, AI face scores and steroid regimens are promising lonely young men a shortcut to love. The research points somewhere far less dramatic: kindness, curiosity and the way you treat people.

Culture · Media
Two years after he helped decide the “podcast election,” Rogan still tops every chart. But his criticism of the president barely registers, his rivals have multiplied, and his biggest bookings now look like late-night TV.

Culture · Technology
OpenAI CEO pressed during Vanity Fair interview as questions intensify over artificial intelligence, mental health and user safety

Culture
A24’s Primetime wants audiences to reconsider Chris Hansen and the television phenomenon that made him famous.

Culture
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping cybersecurity, giving defenders powerful new tools while raising fears that hackers could automate parts of attacks that once required significant time and expertise.
Culture
CHICAGO — For decades, the machinery behind a McDonald’s restaurant was relatively easy to recognize: grills, fryers, cash registers and drive-through headsets.

Culture · Food
For the vast majority of human history—roughly 99% of it—people ate what nature provided, when it provided it.

Culture · Roots
The blues is quintessentially American—an African American creation born from the pain of slavery, sharecropping, and the Mississippi Delta, with roots in field hollers, spirituals, work songs, and West African rhythms.