Why Natural Food Dyes Aren’t Always Safer

Since becoming Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken aim at coloring compounds in foods, drinks, and medical products, claiming that they can compromise people’s health. In the recently released Make America Healthy Again reportKennedy and others mention food colorings and note data connecting some to behavioral issues in … Read more

Phishing Emails Aren’t as Obvious Anymore. Here’s How to Spot Them

We’ve all seen those emails pushing amazing offers that seem too good to be true, dire warnings that your computer has been compromisedor even threats of jail time if you don’t pay your back taxes right away. Those are all common pitches from online scammers trying to get you to panic and click on a … Read more

‘No Other Land’ directors aren’t the only Oscar winners dismayed by ‘indefensible’ academy response

The Israeli and Palestinian directors behind “No Other Land” aren’t alone in their disappointment in the film academy’s lackluster response to the recent attack on and detainment of Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal. A letter touting support from 600 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — including multiple Oscar winners — condemned … Read more

10 Surprising Foods That Aren’t Always Vegetarian or Vegan

Transparency has never been more important when it comes to what we ingest, given a litany of common food allergies and lifestyle choices. You may be a diligent label readerbut you may also be taking for granted that certain food products that would instinctively seem to be vegetarian or vegan actually are, when in fact … Read more

Gen AI’s Accuracy Problems Aren’t Going Away Anytime Soon, Researchers Say

Generative AI chatbots are known to make a lot of mistakes. Let’s hope you didn’t follow Google’s AI suggestion to add glue to your pizza recipe or eat a rock or two a day for your health. These errors are known as hallucinations: essentially, things the model makes up. Will this technology get better? Even … Read more