Browsing Tag
Jan/Feb 2013
18 posts
How Wine Tasting is More — and Less — of a Scam Than You Thought
Labels, prices, reputations. They're as much a part of your wine-tasting experience as the juice itself.
The Formula
How an equation cooked up by Mussolini’s numbers guy came to define how we think about inequality—from Occupy Wall Street to the World Bank to the billionaires at Davos—and why it’s time to find a new way of looking at the numbers.
Fifty-Fifty: Whether to Test for Huntington’s Disease
“I had no idea which of my parents carried the gene,” writer Mona Gable recounts. But the death of her brother led her to find out if she carried the marker.
Whose Body Is This?
Forensic scientists are working to identify the anonymous corpses of thousands of unlucky immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Why We Do What We Do
A letter from Sara Miller McCune, founder of the Miller-McCune Center and Pacific Standard.
It’s 10 P.M. Do You Know What Your Avatar Is Doing?
The psychologist Jeremy Bailenson’s quest to prepare us for the coming virtual world