Latest articles by Alexis Boncy
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What's the deal with the modern pentathlon?
feature Fencing? Horse jumping? This is modern?
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11 questions employers should never ask job applicants
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Will rugby sevens be the breakout fan favorite of the Rio Olympics?
feature Rugby is back at the Olympics after a 92-year absence. This is going to be fun.
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The Rio Olympics: A viewer's guide to 9 top sports
feature Basketball, swimming, gymnastics — oh my!
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The Rio Olympics opening ceremony: A viewer's guide
feature We know for sure there will be a flag, an oath, and anthem, and a flame
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Paid family leave, explained
The Explainer Becoming a parent is a huge undertaking — financially and emotionally — and most people can't afford to take extended time off from work when a baby arrives
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How I learned to stop worrying and love germs
feature Be warned: This article is gross
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How audiobook narrators master their craft
feature Audiobook narrator Scott Brick talks about working with authors, setting the mood, and sounding very, very smooth
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8 mystery and suspense books to read this summer
feature Embrace your inner Sherlock
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8 nonfiction books to read this summer
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Why I still love actual paper books
feature I want to be absorbed by a book in a way that actual page-turning, not pixel-moving finger flips, allows
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Can the Dalai Lama's new website help you achieve inner peace?
feature That might be a stretch. But it can surely help you understand your own emotions a bit better.
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How music can make your baby smarter
feature And it's not just Mozart. Guns N' Roses works, too.
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How a fleet of tiny spaceships could 'sail' to Alpha Centauri
feature This is the kind of plan that falls into the category of so-crazy-it-just-might-work
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Rise of the chatbots
feature A revolution in artificial intelligence is at hand
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This company wants to use dog DNA to help cure cancer
feature Embark's doggie DNA kits can reveal a lot about a pup, and perhaps even more about common diseases
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How Elon Musk's hyperloop dream is moving from sci-fi fantasy to reality
feature Traveling from L.A. to San Francisco in a half hour? It might really happen.
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How we're building a better earthquake warning system
feature Yeah, there's an app for that
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Inventology author Pagan Kennedy opens up about the secrets of innovation
feature There's rarely an "a-ha" moment. And it helps if you blow stuff up in the garage.
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Monkeys can control wheelchairs now — with their minds
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How gene editing will help solve the world's looming food crisis
feature Imagine super-crops that could endure harsher, drier, and hotter growing conditions. Or crops that are impervious to fungus or disease.
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This massive space telescope will revolutionize astronomy
feature Meet the James Webb Space Telescope
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Everything you need to know about the virtual reality boomlet
feature As virtual reality moves from the abstract to the actual, it's worth taking a timeout to ask a simple question: What exactly are we talking about?
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Behold the innovative power of biomimetics
feature Cockroach-inspired robots, gecko-inspired drones, and more
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