Filipe Toledo Gets the Barrel

A surfer rides a wave in a legendary location. July 29, 2024, 3:11 PM ET Ben Thouard /AFP / Getty Nearly 10,000 miles away from the Games in Paris, the 2024 Olympic surfing events are taking place in Teahupo’o, on the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti, where 48 surfers from 21 nations are competing in ... Read More

Anxiety Is Like Exercise – The Atlantic

Imagine that you just got a bad job evaluation, or learned that your suspicious mole really might be cancer. Your heart races, your chest tightens, your mouth is cottony dry and your skin damp with sweat—all classic physical symptoms of anxiety. Unless you’re one of the Alex Honnolds of the world, the sensation of anxiety ... Read More

Olympics Photo of the Day: A Leap Through the Antlers

Buda Mendes / Getty One of the best parts about the Olympics can be the creativity and variety found in the arenas and courses. For the 2024 equestrian cross-country course, designer Pierre Le Goupil took inspiration from the features and grounds of the Palace of Versailles, creating 28 decorative obstacles—including this fence shaped like a ... Read More

Olympics Photo of the Day: A Moment of Victory

Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Fencers can be very demonstrative during matches, and the impact of participating in the Olympics seems to intensity the many reactions of all competitors. Today’s photos from Paris, on day one of the Games, captured so many faces full of raw emotion, and I felt that this was a ... Read More

Olympics Photo of the Day: A Towering Light Show

François-Xavier Marit / AFP / Getty Following the Parade of Nations on the Seine River, athletes and spectators watch as lasers light up the sky around the Eiffel Tower, at the Trocadero venue, during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on July 26, 2024.

Biden Made a Healthy Decision About Aging

As one of the physicians who recently expressed concern about President Joe Biden’s health and his likelihood of significant decline over the next four and a half years, I was relieved when he ended his reelection campaign—and also overwhelmingly sad. In essence, as people keep saying, he had his car keys and driver’s license taken ... Read More

Kamala Harris Could Make 2024 the Abortion Election

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Of all the reasons Kamala Harris is better equipped than Joe Biden to defeat Donald Trump in November—her relative youth, the fact that she’s a former prosecutor challenging a convicted felon—her biggest advantage may be her record on abortion. Harris served as the Biden ... Read More

When storm prep is left up to citizens

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. This is an edition of The Weekly Planet, a newsletter that provides a guide for living through climate change. Sign up for it here. Last month, at the start of hurricane season, I invited my inner circle to a hurricane-preparation dinner. Over a supreme ... Read More

Why I Buy German Toothpaste Now

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. For as long as I can remember, I have bought into the gospel of fluoride, believing that my teeth would surely rot out of my head without its protection. So it felt a little bit illicit, recently, when I purchased a box of German ... Read More

Retirement Gets Harder the Longer You Wait

When President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he was ending his campaign for reelection, he took pains to describe his choice as one meant to serve the greater good. “I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country,” he wrote in a statement. His decision seemed calculated to prioritize ... Read More