WHO agency says talc is “probably” cancer-causing

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization’s cancer agency, classified talc as “probably carcinogenic” for humans. However an outside expert warned against misinterpreting the announcement as a “smoking gun”. The decision to classify talc as…

Nicolas Cage Is Still Evolving

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The wobbly distinction between reality and artifice fascinates Nicolas Cage. The first time we encountered each other was in 2001, during the making of “Adaptation”—a film based on Charlie Kaufman’s struggle…

Ira Glass Hears It All

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It can be easy to take the greatness of “This American Life,” the weekly public-radio show and podcast hosted by Ira Glass, for granted. The show, which Glass co-founded in 1995…