Katherine Wells
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Juice Cleanses: The Worst Diet
A doctor tries the ever-popular Master Cleanse. Sort of.
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Email Is Ruining Us: A Brilliant Solution
The amount of time we spend on email—and the stress it generates—are unsustainable. Enter the "cool" button.
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Wine Is Healthy—Isn't It? It Is—No?
James Hamblin prepares to impress his date with knowledge about the health benefits of wine.
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Single-Tasking Is the New Multitasking
Trying to do too many internet things at once makes it hard to get anything done at all.
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Let's Talk About Female Orgasms
It doesn't have to be awkward. James Hamblin and Dr. Lauren Streicher, author of Love Sex Again, discuss how to bring up sexual issues with your doctor, partner, and friends.
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The Fire Lab
Inside the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, where researchers use high-speed footage, fire whirl generators, and giant combustion chambers to reverse-engineer wildfires.
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We Are Dead Stars
We live in an "Eden" powered by burning stars. But it won't always be this way.
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The Atlantic Sad Desk Lunch: Is This How You Want to Die?
How to avoid working through lunch, and diseases related to social isolation.
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The Terrors of Skipping Breakfast
Dr. James Hamblin questions whether breakfast is really "the most important meal of the day."
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The Geography of Small Talk
Surprising alternatives to "so what do you do?"—from New Orleans to New York.
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Computer Vision Syndrome and You
Save your eyes. Take breaks.
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Where Time Comes From
The time that ends up on your smartphone—and that synchronizes GPS, military operations, financial transactions, and the internet—originates in a set of atomic clocks at the U.S. Naval Observatory.
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Why We Tend to Show Our Left Side in Pictures
Centuries of art shed light on a small scientific mystery.
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Why We Tend to Show Our Left Side in Pictures
Centuries of art shed light on a small scientific mystery.
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Why ROYGBIV Is Arbitrary
Our division of the rainbow comes from Newton—but it's more subjective than scientific.
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Why ROYGBIV Is Arbitrary
Our division of the rainbow comes from Newton—but it's more subjective than scientific.
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The Other Darwin
Charles Darwin based some of his theory of evolution on the work of a man you’ve never heard of. An animation looks at the life and work of A. R. Wallace.
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What Makes a Good Party: Advice From 1950
"The purpose of a party is to have fun." This archival film shows you how.
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Dinner Parties Are Confusing: Emily Post's 1947 Guide to Table Manners
Learn how to avoid embarrassment at a dinner party in this archival film.
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The Hunt for Baltimore's Slumlords
A video follows Carol Ott, a mother of two who is documenting every blighted property she can find in Baltimore.
