If the United States learned any lesson from HIV, it should have been that negligence can be a death sentence. In the early 1980s, the virus’s ravages were treated as “something that happens over there, only to those people,” Juan Michael Porter II, a health journalist and an HIV activist, told me. But the more the virus and the people it most affected were ignored, the worse the epidemic got.
Reviewer: Chidera Ejikeme
January 29, 2026
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In the never-ending quest to figure out what we are supposed to eat, a new boogeyman has emerged: seed oils. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pointed to seed oils—a category that includes common varieties such as canola, soybean, and corn—as a major culprit behind America’s chronic-disease problem. Kennedy is far from the only prominent seed-oil critic: On his podcast, Joe Rogan has declared that “seed oils are some of the worst fucking things your body can consume.” These claims about the dangers of seed oils are not based in science; nutritionists believe that they are not only safe but also good for you in moderation. But that hasn’t stopped the charge against them from going mainstream. You can now find products labeled Seed oil safe at Whole Foods and Costco; according to one poll, 28 percent of Americans are actively avoiding seed oils.
Reviewer: Chidera Ejikeme
January 29, 2026
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On Sunday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met with the families of two girls who had died from measles in West Texas—and raised doubts about the safety of vaccines. “He said, ‘You don’t know what’s in the vaccine anymore,’” Peter Hildebrand, whose 8-year-old daughter, Daisy’s, funeral had been held just hours earlier, told me. “I actually asked him about it.”
Reviewer: Chidera Ejikeme
January 29, 2026
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When you inhale a microscopic speck of soot, its journey may go like this: The particle enters your nose and heads into your lungs, penetrating even the tiny air sacs that facilitate gas exchange. Next it may slip into your bloodstream and flow into your heart, or past the blood-brain barrier. Most of us inhale some of these tiny particles every day. But inhaling enough can turn the act of breathing into an existential hazard, prompting or worsening asthma, COPD, respiratory infections, and permanent lung damage. In the heart, the specks can trigger heart disease, heart attacks, and most of the cardiovascular disorders you can think of. Air pollution is also associated with depression and anxiety, and with higher rates of suicide. It can trigger strokes and is linked to dementia or—even at average levels in this country—Parkinson’s disease.
Reviewer: Chidera Ejikeme
January 29, 2026
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In the video, the man and his burgundy slab of beef liver are best friends. Their bond is revealed in a series of vignettes: The man ties a dog leash around the meat lump and lugs it behind him on a skateboard (afternoon stroll). The man dresses it in sunglasses and a necktie and positions it with a copy of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations (reading date). The man pulls back his bedsheets to reveal that the liver is his new pillow (slumber party!).
Reviewer: Chidera Ejikeme
January 28, 2026
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Hong Kong Supermarket looked exactly as it always had. When I visited the store in Manhattan’s Chinatown last week, buckets of live crabs were stacked precariously next to bags of sweet-potato starch and shrink-wrapped boxes of dried shiitake mushrooms. The instant noodles took up two walls, where I quickly found my beloved and gloriously weird cheese-flavored kind. The aisles were packed with the usual staples: black vinegar, bags of vermicelli, sacks of jasmine rice big enough to body-slam a man.
Reviewer: Chidera Ejikeme
January 28, 2026
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