The first time most people noticed something was off about Brian Daboll, it wasn’t the playcalling. The jawline was the culprit. He was noticeably smaller, the polo shirt no longer strained at the chest, and the walk along the sidelines seemed somehow lighter when training camp began in late July 2024, with the humidity of New Jersey already bearing down on the Quest Diagnostics fields. He finally acknowledged that it was fifty pounds. Of all things, Pilates. He had wandered into a Wyckoff studio after seeing it over dinner. To his credit, Daboll was open about how it happened. It…
Author: Jack Ward
The way Intellia Therapeutics has been appearing on traders’ screens lately has an almost theatrical quality. NTLA opened at $12.14 on a muggy Wednesday in late April, briefly rose, and then fell throughout the morning as almost 17 million shares—nearly four times its average daily volume—were traded. The stock had dropped nearly nine percent by New York lunchtime. The pattern would have been evident to anyone watching the tape: a swift bid, followed by sellers intervening, and then another wave. It appeared to be more of a slow dispute between two parties who couldn’t agree on the value of this…
Sarah Danh was dancing at her own wedding in Canyon Lake a few weeks ago. It’s the kind of Texas evening where the music continues to play in the parking lot long after the ceremony and the light hangs low over the water. By all accounts, she was gorgeous, twenty-seven, and recently married to Luke Gradl. That night’s photos are still making the rounds on the internet. They resemble any other album from a wedding. They don’t. Something inside her body broke two days into their honeymoon in Tokyo. Later on, physicians would refer to it as acute liver failure.…
First, the phone buzzed. Next, the heavens. These days, it usually starts with a tiny mechanical noise on a kitchen counter, and it takes a half-second for anyone outside to notice that the wind is pushing harder against the screen door. When the National Weather Service in Birmingham issued a severe thunderstorm warning for portions of Fayette and Lamar counties on Tuesday at 10:29 a.m., that buzz spread throughout West Alabama. A storm was already heading east out of Vernon at about 40 mph by the time most people looked up from their phones. It was carrying quarter-sized hail and…
At first, the forecast was a low-key bulletin that was often overlooked in favor of springtime stories about pollen counts and tornadoes. The numbers then increased. At Battle Pass, two feet. At Grand Mesa, twenty-four inches. Wet, heavy snow was blown sideways across passes that were only a week before beginning to thaw due to wind gusts of up to 45 miles per hour. By Sunday, the National Weather Service had issued advisories for Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and a small portion of Utah. The language used was remarkably straightforward: “heavy, wet snow,” they repeatedly stated, seemingly to ensure that no…
On Wednesday, April 29, at 10:13 a.m. Eastern, the Falcon Heavy took off from Kennedy Space Center. For a brief moment, the Florida coast was reminded of the times when SpaceX regularly launched its massive triple-booster rocket. The last one was a year and a half ago. It was long enough that some of the local photographers who used to set up their long lenses at the causeway had stopped looking at the schedule. As this mission progresses, it seems like Falcon Heavy is evolving into something more uncommon than anyone anticipated in 2018. This time, the payload was the…
Clinics in London, Manchester, New York, and Sydney now have a familiar scene. Sitting on the edge of a couch, a woman in her late thirties or early forties is half-laughing because she’s not sure how else to keep herself together. For anxiety, she has visited her doctor. Then for a depressed mood. After her son’s school evaluation, she began reading late at night in the kitchen while the kettle cooled next to her. Her whole life was detailed in the online questionnaire. Not the jittery, boisterous boy form of ADHD. The other one. No one bothered to search for…
In 2026, practically everyone seems to be familiar with a certain kind of person. They are the friend who responds to a “good job” by outlining their own shortcomings. At two in the morning, a coworker reworks a slide deck for a meeting that no one significant is attending. The student who receives a score of 92 and obsesses over the eight points they missed over the weekend. It appears to be ambition from a distance. It frequently appears to be something completely different up close. Although this distinction has been discussed by researchers for years, the work published in…