I have spoken to many people who are excited about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promises to improve the safety of our food and to promote the health and wellness of our country. These are certainly worthy goals and something that most everyone can agree on. If RFK Jr. is confirmed as the secretary ...

There’s this strategy in business called the decoy effect, where marketers price things differently to manipulate customers. The classic example is popcorn at the movies, where the medium-sized popcorn is priced so expensively that people just get the biggest (and more expensive) popcorn ...

I am a new Utahn and an unaffiliated voter who votes a mixed ballot. Last November, I carefully considered candidates’ experience, voting record, background, qualifications, and attitudes toward governmental accountability and democratic norms. Because I believe political diversity leads to ...

I am a registered dietitian nutritionist and was recently invited to give a nutrition presentation to local adults. Because of the prevalence of nutrition misinformation, I first addressed how to evaluate the credibility of nutrition sources. Trustworthy sources on nutrition will hold valid ...

According to a recent article in The New York Times from Kevin Roose, it is remarkably easy to manipulate artificial-intelligence chatbots. The discovery came about after Roose, a noted critic of AI, asked a number of chatbots like Microsoft’s Sydney, Google’s Gemini and Meta’s Llama to ...

You cannot make up this stuff. While competing factions inside any organization can create confusion, a master class in confusion is playing out inside my church and my faith — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — over the strange bedfellows of homosexuality, peacemaking and ...