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The Bone-Marrow Transplant Revolution

In the fall of 2021, Gabriel Arias felt like his body was “rotting from the inside.” He was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a form of blood cancer so aggressive that doctors had him hospitalized the day of his biopsy. In cases like his, the…

18/04/2024

How to Be Less Busy and More Happy

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Are you feeling a little guilty about reading this article? Not because of the content, of course—nothing scandalous here!

18/04/2024

The Self-Help Queen of TikTok Goes Mainstream

In 2006, Oprah Winfrey couldn’t stop talking about The Secret. She devoted multiple episodes of her talk show to the franchise, which started as a kind of DVD seminar and later became a best-selling book.

17/04/2024

Women in Menopause Are Getting Short Shrift

They could benefit from a diversity of hormones, empathy about their experience, and a frank approach to sexuality—all hallmarks of trans health care.

17/04/2024

The Long-Term Effects of GLP-1 Drugs Are Unknown

In December 1921, Leonard Thompson was admitted to Toronto General Hospital so weak and emaciated that his father had to carry him inside. Thompson was barely a teenager, weighing all of 65 pounds, dying of diabetes. With so little to lose, he was…

15/04/2024

The Myth of the Mobile Millionaire

In 2010, as California was moving forward with plans to raise taxes sharply on million-dollar earners, opponents issued dire warnings that the hike would drive away entrepreneurs and cripple the state economy.

15/04/2024

Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls

How many times has it happened? You’re on your computer, searching for a particular article, a hard-to-find fact, or a story you vaguely remember, and just when you seem to have discovered the exact right thing, a paywall descends. “$1 for Six…

14/04/2024

Chocolate Might Never Be the Same

Good chocolate, I’ve come to learn, should taste richly of cocoa—a balanced blend of bitter and sweet, with notes of fruit, nuts, and spice. My favorite chocolate treat is nothing like that. It’s the Cadbury Creme Egg, an ovoid milk-chocolate shell…

12/04/2024

The AI Revolution Is Crushing Thousands of Languages

English is the internet’s primary tongue—a fact that may have unexpected consequences as generative AI becomes central to daily life.

12/04/2024

Tupperware Is in Trouble

For the first several decades of my life, most of the meals I ate involved at least one piece of Tupperware.

12/04/2024

Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility

What happens when a smart TV becomes too smart for its own good? The answer, it seems, is more intrusive advertisements.

11/04/2024

Jung’s Five Pillars of a Good Life

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. In the world of popular psychology, the work of one giant figure is hard to avoid: Carl Jung, the onetime associate of Sigmund Freud who died more…

11/04/2024