After moving to one of North America’s largest river islands late last year, I decided that I should check out more of my new home by water. I have long been a fan of the freedom that a small dinghy or bass boat offers, even on larger rivers like the …

Going to the range is fundamental to improving your game, but I don’t always love the experience. If you’re impatient like me, it’s easy to overdo it, which messes with your swing and nullifies the whole point. I wasn’t sure how much Garmin’s pint-size launch monitor could help, but one …

While the study was still in the recruitment phase, Nadolsky left the team. Entrenched Positions Klatt, of UC Berkeley, is extremely well-versed in nutrition research and the current online debates around cholesterol. He’s written about this study and its fallout on his personal Substack, and calls Nadolsky a friend. Klatt …

One of my pet peeves as a professional mattress tester of over five years? Using the titles “adjustable mattress” and “adjustable frame” interchangeably when they are, in fact, different things altogether. It doesn’t help that these products come up within the same search and are often labeled as the same …

There are around five darkness retreat centers in the US, Berman says, with approximately 100 worldwide. Sky Cave has three dark rooms; four-night retreats cost $1,770, with an extra night to settle in and another to decompress afterward. The potential effects of prolonged darkness have not been studied well, but …

In the spring of 2018, thousands of Google employees pressured the company into dropping a major artificial intelligence contract with the Pentagon. The tech giant even pledged to not use its AI for weapons or certain surveillance systems in the future. The victory, which came amid a wave of unprecedented …

While the US military has spent lavishly on missile defense over the past few decades, it has “little to show” for it, argues a recently revised report published by the Panel on Public Affairs of the American Physical Society, a nonprofit that researches physics and other scientific issues. The authors, …

Other Smart Scales Photograph: Chris Null Renpho MorphoScan for $160: The Renpho MorphoScan full-body scanner looks surprisingly similar to the Runstar FG2015, including a near-identical display attached to the handlebars. Well, spoiler alert, they are basically the same scale. They even use the same app to collect data (and you …

If you reach a point where progress has outstripped the ability to make the systems safe, would you take a pause? I don’t think today’s systems are posing any sort of existential risk, so it’s still theoretical. The geopolitical questions could actually end up being trickier. But given enough time …

This may be obvious, but you also need to have a network set up before disaster hits, Meadors says. So, set up anyone who you might need to communicate with during a cell and internet blackout before it actually happens. And, due to relatively frequent firmware updates, you can’t just …