PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
A look at the materials needed to design and construct a ski suitable for Olympic competition.
How did we go from rugged players to rabid consumers?
The Chinese government's pollution-cutting efforts for the 2008 Olympics improved birth weights in the city, a new study finds.
A new study finds equal rights for women may also boost the competitive prospects of men.
For many, the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games represent missed opportunities to tackle health problems and inequality.
Jon Drummond, saying he is facing a lifetime ban, is suing Gay and the head of U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for defamation.
Anti-doping investigators say they would rather trade leniency for information on coaches and other athletes involved in doping.
Our bodies naturally create hundreds of hormones that are key to determining our athletic abilities. But the introduction of unnatural hormones raises important questions about how we define sex and gender.
A living, breathing example of how we misunderstand the inequity of poverty.
Russian legislators have said they will enforce new anti-gay laws during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, but the ancient athletic games started out as little more than a gigantic festival of homoerotic excess.
A counterintuitive approach to addiction in “Canada’s poorest postal code.”
Female athletes continue to get short shrift on prime-time Olympic coverage.
The results of a new study point to placebos as the perfect performance-enhancing drug: Athletes performed better on a high-jump test after unknowingly 'doping' with sugar pills.
Masked marathoners aside, a new paper suggests that as bad as Beijing's air quality may be, it has improved during the decade leading up to the Olympics.
Politics has been an Olympic event since at least 1968, although this summer's games in Beijing are producing a level of activism not seen in decades.