Why Nike Stock Jumped Today
Two Wall Street firms think you should buy the footwear behemoth’s shares.
Why Restaurant Stocks Were Sizzling This Week
With the retreat in the coronavirus that happened last year, both diners and investors are returning to the restaurant sector.
Art Criticism as a Way to Live
These are what have been for me the most troubling and beautiful aspects of being a full-time critic and writer.
Abstractions That Record the Scars of Trauma
Kwon Young-Woo presents the viewer with a deeper sense of the reality that nature goes on, no matter what humans are doing to each other.
The Eastern European Artists Who Moved Forward by Starting From Scratch
For the five artists in From Scratch, starting from the elemental meant raising existential questions on the use of language and humor or irony in art.
Kia LaBeija’s Photographs Tell a Story as Multifaceted as the Artist Herself
The photographer chronicles her life as a queer woman of color born with HIV.
Required Reading
This week, national participation in the Venice Biennale, teen depression in the US, the “pity me” personal essay, reimagining borders, and more.
Drug reduced frequency of breathing pauses in sleep apnea
A new study has paved the way for the first drug treatment for sleep apnea. Compared to before receiving the treatment, breathing pauses decreased with on average more than 20 per hour for patients given the drug.
ARK’s Expected Value For Tesla In 2026: $4,600 Per Share
ARK’s updated open-source Tesla model yields an expected value per share of $4,600 in 2026. Please explore and test our assumptions.
Why Bed Bath & Beyond Stock Dropped Today
Investors are still digesting the company’s weak Q4 earnings report.
From cell fat to cell fate
A cell’s production of fat molecules can be a key factor in determining what that cell will become.
Light amplification accelerates chemical reactions in aerosols
Aerosols in the atmosphere react to incident sunlight. This light is amplified in the interior of the aerosol droplets and particles, accelerating reactions. Researchers have now been able to demonstrate and quantify this effect and recommend factoring…
New research sheds fresh light on the ‘presenteeism’
Employees who are unwell only engage in ‘presenteeism’ — continuing to work when experiencing ill-health — when they have not met their daily work goals, according to new research.
Open sharing of biotechnology research: Transparency versus security
As biotechnology advances, the risk of accidental or deliberate misuse of biological research like viral engineering is increasing. At the same time, ‘open science’ practices like the public sharing of research data and protocols are becoming widesprea…
Declining nitrogen availability found in our nitrogen-rich world
Following years of attention to surplus nitrogen in the environment, our evolving understanding has led to new concerns about nitrogen insufficiency in areas of the world that do not receive significant inputs of nitrogen from human activities. A multi…
Structures considered key to gene expression are surprisingly fleeting
Scientists find that loops in the genome may be much rarer and shorter-lived than previously thought, lasting only tens of minutes, which suggests current theories of how loops influence gene expression may need to be revised.
Key signaling pathway in immune cells could be new Alzheimer’s target
Inhibiting an important signaling pathway in brain-resident immune cells may calm brain inflammation and thereby slow the disease process in Alzheimer’s and some other neurodegenerative diseases, suggests a new study. The findings point to the possibil…
Racial and ethnic disparities in telemedicine usage persist during pandemic
A new study finds racial and ethnic disparities in the use of telemedicine and access to care persist during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A novel computing approach to recognizing chaos
A new paper proposes using the single nonlinear node delay-based reservoir computer to identify chaotic dynamics.
Spatial maps of melanoma
Melanoma is a somewhat unusual cancer — one that blooms before our very eyes, often on sun-exposed skin, and can quickly become deadly as it turns our own skin against us and spreads to other organs. Fortunately, when caught early, melanoma can often …