Giz Asks4/19/21Apr 19SaveGiz Asks4/19/21Giz AsksIs There VR for Senses Other Than Sight?Daniel Kolitz4In an ideal world, virtual reality would be just like regular reality, except without regular reality’s annoying…
Giz Asks4/12/21Apr 122Giz Asks4/12/21Giz AsksWhy Do I Feel Like I'm Dying During a Panic Attack?Daniel Kolitz27If you would like to know what it feels like to die, while at the same time continuing to live, you have a number of…
Giz Asks4/5/21Apr 52Giz Asks4/5/21Giz AsksWho Was the Most Evil Scientist in History?Daniel Kolitz123The majority of scientists are, I’d wager, not particularly evil. Most just want to understand plants, or the Moon,…
Giz Asks3/22/21Mar 222Giz Asks3/22/21Giz AsksWhy Is It So Hard to Regrow Hair?Daniel Kolitz43Bodies are machines designed to remind you of death, to semi-continuously blare out the fact of your mortality,…
Giz Asks3/15/21Mar 152Giz Asks3/15/21Giz AsksCould Time Travel Ever Work?Daniel Kolitz73Scientists, or at least their wild-haired fictional counterparts, promised us time travel and still have not…
Giz Asks3/8/21Mar 81Giz Asks3/8/21Giz AsksWhat's the Most Climate-Safe Place in the World?Daniel Kolitz49It is easy to be pessimistic about the future. It is also easy to scientifically verify that pessimism through…
Giz Asks3/1/21Mar 11Giz Asks3/1/21Giz AsksWhy Does Music Make Us Feel Things?Daniel Kolitz21Once a day, at least, I’ll tear up listening to music. Just a drop or two, or not even a drop, just a pre-cry…
Giz Asks2/22/21Feb 221Giz Asks2/22/21Giz AsksDid Neanderthals Have the Capacity for Verbal Language?Daniel Kolitz34The Neanderthal of popular imagination is a hideous, ape-like being, lumbering around with his or her crude spear.…
Giz Asks2/15/21Feb 153Giz Asks2/15/21Giz AsksHow Do Animals Perceive Time?Daniel Kolitz51I’m writing this on a Tuesday, at 2:26 p.m. Minutes ago, it was 9 a.m., or so it feels; back then, I was enjoying…
Giz Asks1/25/21Jan 253Giz Asks1/25/21Giz AsksWhich Sounds Are the Most Annoying to Humans?Daniel Kolitz226Earlier this month, a kind of chirping, rainforest-y sound sprung up in my apartment. It came from my roommate’s…
Giz Asks1/18/21Jan 181Giz Asks1/18/21Giz AsksHow Does It Feel to Get Ketamine Therapy?Daniel Kolitz44Among 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 Kolitz17It’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 Kolitz34Earlier 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 Kolitz6At 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 Kolitz25Is 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 Kolitz28To 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…