is a New York鈥揵ased reporter whose stories have been featured in The New York Times Magazine,Wired, Scientific American, 贬补谤辫别谤鈥檚, and The Walrus;聽online at The New Yorker and Buzzfeed; as well as on the radio at Radiolab, Reply All, and Science Friday. He has worked as a regular contributor for The New York Times Magazine, smithsonian.com, GOOD, Maine magazine, and The Christian Science Monitor.
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Emerging research suggests that you should embrace the steam
Both substances are being studied for stress and anxiety relief. We asked the experts if and how they work.
These new training apps can craft customized routines based on your past performance. It鈥檚 almost like having an automated personal trainer.聽
Despite shadowy origins and increasingly diluted claims, the beverage has officially entered the wellness scene
Silicon Valley鈥檚 latest foray into fitness tech offers a new way to measure up
Deep in the heart of the Adirondacks, the unexpected death of a small-town police sergeant has added fuel to a nationwide controversy over an herbal supplement
It doesn鈥檛 always tell the full story. Independent testers have arrived to fill in the gaps.
Maybe smashing objects is therapeutic. But there's only one way to find out.
Americans spend $11 billion a year in pursuit of the blissful happy-ever-after. But what do we really accomplish? To find out, Peter Andrey Smith embedded with the utopia seekers for a weekend in Miami at the first-ever World Happiness Summit.
Don鈥檛 let the Theranos saga fool you: we鈥檝e entered a new era of self-quantification, in which on-demand blood testing is sold as the easy way to fine-tune your training and nutrition. Can an algorithm really replace your coach?
Microbes in your stomach support the multi-billion-dollar probiotics industry, your workout, and possibly even your sex drive.