This isn't about being a cynic. It’s about being a skeptic.
There used to be a thing called “seeing is believing.” You watched it happen. You trusted your eyes. Your eyes had never lied to you before, at least not intentionally. That’s over now. What a Deepfake Actually Is Deepfakes are…
There’s a woman on the internet who wakes up before sunrise, bakes sourdough from scratch, milks her own cows, raises nine kids, and looks like she just stepped out of a painting. Her farm is beautiful. Her kitchen is warm.…
Somewhere on Instagram right now, a guy with “Dr.” in his bio is telling you that seed oils are slowly killing you, that your ancestral lineage demands you eat raw beef liver, and that for $197 a month he’ll coach…
Somewhere between the campfire and the microwave, we lost the plot. Cooking food is one of the oldest and most consequential things humans have ever done. We’ve been doing it for somewhere between 500,000 and a million years, depending on…
The deadline passed on June 5th. If you were one of the people who saw the Instagram caption, shared it to your story, and told your followers to “demand action NOW” before it was too late, well. It’s too late.…
My kid came home from school last year and told me she was pretty sure she had ADHD. She had seen a video about it. Actually, she had seen a lot of videos about it. The algorithm had decided that…
My dad grew up in rural America. He ate bologna sandwiches, drank well water, and smoked Marlboros until the mid-70s. The idea that invisible waves bouncing off his cordless phone were going to give him brain cancer would have made…
Back when I was a kid, the big kitchen fear was cholesterol. Doctors told your parents to ditch the butter, lard, and animal fat, and the food industry was happy to oblige. Crisco had already been in the game since…
Look up. Go ahead. I’ll wait. See that white line trailing behind that jet? That, according to a growing corner of the internet, is the government slowly poisoning you. Spraying you with aluminum, barium, and whatever else is trending in…
Back in the day, beer was simple. Barley, water, hops, yeast. You drank it at a barbecue and you didn’t think about it for another second. Now you’re standing in the beer aisle for ten minutes trying to figure out…