Year: 2023

AI Is Now a Destructive Steward of Diet Culture

AI Is Now a Destructive Steward of Diet Culture

At the beginning of May, the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA)—which bills itself as the biggest nonprofit devoted to helping people with eating disorders—debuted Tessa, its new support chatbot. Tessa, which was developed by professors at Washington University School of Medicine and funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, was shown in a clinical trial…

A Practical Solution to Ear Infections

A Practical Solution to Ear Infections

We can’t look inside our own ears—but if we could, we would see that what goes on in the ears is intimately connected to the nose, and what goes on in the nose is intimately connected to the ears. Here’s how it works—and why it matters. Three distinct areas make up the human ear: the…

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