Almost every plan to lower food prices ends up putting the government in one of two businesses, either running a grocery store, as New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is now doing, or telling grocery stores what to charge. A new proposal from the Kitchen Table Project does neither, which is why I’ve spent more time
There’s a new kid on the block in the toothpaste aisle. Next to the usual fluoride formulas, another option has been appearing: hydroxyapatite toothpaste. Hydroxyapatite is the same mineral found in tooth enamel, and some claim using hydroxyapatite toothpaste can help plug tiny cracks in your teeth. Many brands are touting the new toothpaste as
The best new television I’m watching isn’t on HBO or Netflix. It’s on Instagram. Flipping through channels — ahem, I mean, scrolling through my Instagram feed — I’ve found myself tuning into episodes of a new generation of sitcoms. There’s “Brooklyn Coffee Shop,” where two deadpan baristas face stereotypical New York City customers. Then there’s
Raj Panjabi knows a thing or two about living with uncertainty. His family fled Liberia during the civil war, coming to the U.S. when he was 9. And he and his wife faced a crisis when their youngest child was diagnosed with heart failure. A physician, he served as malaria coordinator and then as global
One little white lie at a time, some of the world’s biggest businesses are being undone by bad consumer data, and they don’t know it yet. Now that new tools like synthetic audiences are being thrown into the mix, the boardroom faces a novel problem. Let’s start at the beginning. It doesn’t take a genius
While data centers were taking it on the chin in Tuesday’s midterm elections, the people building them were playing pickleball at a conference in Virginia. And they weren’t exactly reacting constructively to the news. “Suddenly we have protesters and people saying four-letter words about us,” Jeff Wabik, the chief technology officer at DC BLOX, a
