Jan 1811/18/21How Does It Feel to Get Ketamine Therapy?Daniel Kolitz35Among the recreational drugs currently entering the psychiatric mainstream (MDMA, LSD, etc.), ketamine is something…
Giz Asks1/11/21Jan 111Giz Asks1/11/21Giz AsksAre Wearables Accurate at Detecting Calorie Burn?Daniel Kolitz13It’s easy to attribute omnipotence to one’s devices. I’d hate to know what my iPhone knows about me. That said,…
Giz Asks1/4/21Jan 41Giz Asks1/4/21Giz AsksCould We Populate Another Planet With Genetically Modified Organisms?Daniel Kolitz30Earlier this year, a research team made waves by suggesting that we should disseminate Earth’s microbes on Mars in a…
Giz Asks12/28/20Dec 28SaveGiz Asks12/28/20Giz AsksIs Technology Making Me More Depressed?Daniel Kolitz5At what passes for its best, technology would seem equipped to provide a slight relief from tedium/despair, or a…
Giz Asks12/21/20Dec 213Giz Asks12/21/20Giz AsksCan You Train Your Ears to Become More Sensitive?Daniel Kolitz24Is your body perfectly toned? Are your workdays marathons of effortless achievement? Do your relationships proceed…
Giz Asks12/7/20Dec 71Giz Asks12/7/20Giz AsksDo Adaptogens Actually Work?Daniel Kolitz59Spend enough time desperately googling cures for “brain fog” and “pathological procrastination” and you’re likely to…
Giz Asks11/30/20Nov 30SaveGiz Asks11/30/20Giz AsksWhy Do I Sometimes Feel Like I'm Falling for No Reason?Daniel Kolitz24To be alive is to feel fucking terrible, if not all then at least some of the time. Headaches, nausea, mysterious…
Giz Asks11/23/20Nov 235Giz Asks11/23/20Giz AsksWhat Is the Biggest Scientific Fraud of the Past 50 Years?Daniel Kolitz179When you’re a journalist or club promoter or financier, fraud is always a gamble—you might be publicly disgraced and…
Giz Asks11/16/20Nov 161Giz Asks11/16/20Giz AsksWill It Ever Be Possible to Share Dreams?Daniel Kolitz20People say other people’s dreams are boring, but what if the problem is technology? As a sense-conveying device,…
Giz Asks11/9/20Nov 92Giz Asks11/9/20Giz AsksCan I Stop Big Data Companies From Getting My Personal Information?Daniel Kolitz10I am going to answer this one right here in the intro: no, you can’t. In 2020, it is hard to just to go to the…
Giz Asks11/2/20Nov 24Giz Asks11/2/20Giz AsksAre Parallel Universes Real?Daniel Kolitz50Perhaps there is a world, in a distant galaxy, where I am being paid $6,000 a word to write this introduction. In…
Giz Asks10/26/20Oct 263Giz Asks10/26/20Giz AsksCan Trump Be Charged With Criminal Negligence for His Coronavirus 'Response'?Daniel Kolitz78There is technically no law against doing nothing while millions suffer and hundreds of thousands die from a disease…
Giz Asks10/19/20Oct 191Giz Asks10/19/20Giz AsksCould Brain Implants Ever Make Telekinesis Possible?Daniel Kolitz31Today, when you see an eerie child lift a toy with its mind in some hackneyed ‘80s-horror homage, you can be…
Giz Asks10/12/20Oct 12SaveGiz Asks10/12/20Giz AsksCan AI-Generated Text Be Funny?Daniel Kolitz15What’s worse: a future in which the robots turn against us or a future filled with robot stand-up comedians? Regular…
Giz Asks10/5/20Oct 5SaveGiz Asks10/5/20Giz AsksCould Someone Hack My Microchip Implant?Daniel Kolitz17These are, absolutely, very bleak times, but in a sense we should cherish them: we’re living through maybe the last…
Giz Asks9/28/20Sep 28SaveGiz Asks9/28/20Giz AsksWhy Are VR Headsets So Bulky?Daniel Kolitz44Show me someone who looks cool in a VR headset, and I’ll show you a dork with no aesthetic sense. Largely, this has…
Giz Asks9/21/20Sep 21SaveGiz Asks9/21/20Giz AsksWhat Would Happen If Mark Zuckerberg Deleted All of Facebook?Daniel Kolitz115Mark Zuckerberg fucking loves Facebook. He thinks it’s great. Were someone to tell him it sucked—using phrases like…
Giz Asks9/14/20Sep 141Giz Asks9/14/20Giz AsksHow Can I Live a More Phone-Free Life?Daniel Kolitz22It is the rare person who—logging off after a long day’s scrolling—thinks, “I need much more of that in my life.”…
Giz Asks9/7/20Sep 73Giz Asks9/7/20Giz AsksWhat Would Happen If All Personal Data Leaked at Once?Daniel Kolitz33Subconsciously, on some level, we’re all waiting for it: the leak that wrecks society and confirms what we all know…
Giz Asks8/31/20Aug 311Giz Asks8/31/20Giz AsksWhat Will Post-Coronavirus Social Life Really Be Like?Daniel Kolitz76How many sentences, since March, have started with the words “when all this is over”? Billions, probably, but fewer…