Posts by Sophie Clearwater
How Your Body Adapts to Changing Temperatures
How does the body adapt to seasonal temperature changes? Spending most of your time indoors in the air conditioning might slow the body’s changes, come summer. “But if we spend time outside exercising, or even just being physically active outdoors, we’ll adapt to those conditions,” Périard says. When you go for a walk on a…
Read MoreAt Least One in Four NFL Players May Have CTE
“Among the people who did not donate,” he says, “16% had dementia listed on their death certificate. That certainly does not mean they had CTE, but it illustrates how unrealistic it is to assume that every non-donor was disease-free.” Another part of the study looked at a larger time window—from 2008 to 2021—during which 1,712…
Read MoreThe Jackson Hole Shopping Guide for Western Style Without the Costume
The rugged and adventurous spirit of the Old West may live on in Jackson Hole, but the destination has increasingly become a stylish enclave for the well-heeled—or well-booted—traveler. For all its recent growth, there remains a discreet yet distinct unwritten rule for how visitors should dress on sojourns out West. Unlike Aspen, however, wearing all-out…
Read MoreYayoi Kusama, the Avant-Garde Japanese Artist Who Became a Global Cultural Icon, Dies at 97
Kusama creating paintings for her My Eternal Soul series in 2014. © YAYOI KUSAMA Yayoi Kusama died at the age of 97 on August 14 of multiple organ failure at a hospital in Tokyo, as reported by Kyodo News and confirmed by David Zwirner, her longtime gallery. With her obsessively repetitive, vibrant fields of dots…
Read MoreMiss Teen USA Crowns 2026 Winner
There’s a new pageant queen in town. At the conclusion of Miss Teen USA on Aug. 27, Kiran Reddy of Georgia was crowned the 2026 titleholder, picking up the mantle from 2025 winner Mailyn Marsh. “It feels so surreal,” the 18-year-old told cameras at the close of the ceremony. “And I’m so blessed to represent…
Read MoreThe heartbreaking reason why Za’Darius Smith abruptly retired before surprising return
Za’Darius Smith’s surprise retirement came down to family first. The 33-year-old defensive end explained his midseason retirement from the Eagles in 2025 at his first press conference since returning to the NFL. “I wasn’t supposed to retire,” Smith said Tuesday. “I wasn’t going to tell the story, but I’m going to tell it. I got a…
Read MoreTIME Reveals the 2026 TIME100 AI List of the World’s Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence
Today, TIME reveals the fourth annual TIME100 AI list, recognizing the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence. The 2026 TIME100 AI issue includes one worldwide cover featuring listmakers, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jeff Bezos, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Marian Croak, Larry Ellison, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Paris Hilton, Lila Ibrahim, Arvind Krishna, Fei-Fei Li, Mira Murati, Elon Musk,…
Read MoreTIME100 AI 2026: Angle Bush
In 2019, Angle Bush challenged herself to build a cocoa-serving robot. As she researched where to start on YouTube, she kept hearing about artificial intelligence; intrigued, she decided to attend a local meetup in Houston for AI enthusiasts. Bush came away with two conclusions—that the technology would be tremendous, and that there were very few…
Read MoreTIME100 AI 2026: Andrea Bartz
New York Times-bestselling thriller author Andrea Bartz struggled for years to hone her writing style and gain success in the literary world. So when she found out in 2023 that pirated versions of her books were being fed into AI systems, allowing them to spit out dozens of pages in her prose style in a…
Read MoreTIME100 AI 2026: Max Spero
AI-generated writing has distinct patterns—and Pangram Labs says it can detect them. The company says its AI-powered models can discern with over 99.5% accuracy whether a piece of writing was produced entirely by humans or AIs, according to its internal tests. Those tests also show its tools are able to differentiate between human- and AI-written…
Read MoreTIME100 AI 2026: Meetali Jain
When she founded the nonprofit Tech Justice Law in 2023, Meetali Jain did not plan to become the go-to attorney for people suing companies over harm from AI chatbots—but she’s also unsurprised it happened. “It was a matter of time, I knew, before some kind of generative AI product was going to harm children,” she…
Read MoreTIME100 AI 2026: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt sees his contribution to the AI conversation as a storyteller, helping people understand what widespread adoption of the technology and the current economic structures around it could mean for them. Companies, he notes, are incentivized to maximize shareholder value. “And that’s not necessarily going to line up with the technology being good for…
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