The Atlanticflipped into All Stories1 hour agoThis Was a Good Sculptureverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Tom HealyWashington, D.C., is full of cords of connection. By removing a Joel Shapiro work, the Kennedy Center severed one. Until last week, a big electric-blue sculpture by Joel Shapiro sat next to the Kennedy Center. Boxy and rigid but seemingly weightless, Blue looked like a clumsy person who’d been swept …
The Atlanticflipped into Ideas1 hour agoThe Wild West of Commercial Surrogacyverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Helen LewisMost of Europe bans it. The United Nations likens it to slavery. But in the United States, business is booming. When Shoshannah Roberts talks about the four babies she’s given away, she glows. “When I think about it now, it still feels emotional,” she told me. “Those moments are so magical.” For many …
The Atlanticflipped into Ideas1 hour agoWhat September 11 Took From Meverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Ellen S. BakalianThere are some things time doesn’t heal. During a visit in May to the Maritime Museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia, I watched a film about a 1917 cargo-ship explosion that killed more than 1,700 townspeople and injured many more. The grainy black-and-white images of the flattened city catapulted me back …
The Atlanticflipped into Health19 hours agoCereal Has Strayed Too Farverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Marion Nestle and Lisa SutherlandHow breakfast became dessert Breakfast-cereal boxes are a window into both the politics of food and American culture. As a particularly timely example, since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took office last year as secretary of health and human services, he has called for the removal of artificial dyes from …
The Atlanticflipped into All Stories19 hours agoMedicine Needs to Get Serious About AIverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Vinod KhoslaLet the robots try being doctors. For as long as ChatGPT has existed, Americans have been asking it, “Could that funny little spot on my toe be cancer?” And as AI has advanced over the past few years, doctors have begun to use specialized models to ask much the same questions in clinics. In the face …
The Atlanticflipped into Ideas19 hours agoWhen Mothers Get Arrested for Motheringverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Elizabeth BruenigRaising independent kids shouldn’t be this hard. This past June, a Virginia mother named Karyann Parkinson took a bike ride with her 5-year-old son and stopped by a pond inside their gated community to collect goose feathers from the grass. The two of them rode back home, whereupon Parkinson’s son …
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