Hannah Seo

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Hannah Seo

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s warning about mitochondria slipped in between the anti-vaccine junk science and the excoriation of pharmaceutical drugs as “the No. 3 killer in our country.” He was speaking in 2023 to Joe Rogan, elaborating on the dangers of Wi-Fi—which no high-quality scientific evidence has shown to harm anyone’s health—and arguing that it causes disease by somehow opening the blood-brain barrier, and by degrading victims’ mitochondria.

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Grace DeGraaf |Hannah Seo |Henry Blodget

The days of revenge travel are over. After years of being cooped up at home, travelers rushed into the world with a vengeance, sparking a major travel boom from 2022 to 2024. But years of rising prices and a slew of new tariff threats have cast uncertainty over the economy. A summer vacation survey by Bankrate in March found that only 53% of Americans said they planned to take a vacation this summer — about the same as last year but a drop from 2023, when 63% planned to take a vacation.

2 months ago | scientificamerican.com | Hannah Seo

Popular weight-loss and type 2 diabetes drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic are typically taken as self-administered injections—a bearable albeit unpleasant jab to the abdomen or thigh. But drug manufacturers and researchers recognize the perks of pills. An oral version of these drugs—which are known as glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists—could be more accessible and would come without the inconvenience, pain or medical waste of shots.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Hannah Seo

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic have, in three short years, changed our attitudes to the body. They’ve revived a cultural fervor for thinness that has been blamed for everything from the closure of wine bars to killing off the body positivity movement.

Mar 29, 2025 | theatlantic.com | Hannah Seo

At the turn of the 20th century, William Wrigley Jr. was bent on building an empire of gum, and as part of his extensive hustle, he managed to persuade the U.S. Department of War to include his products in soldiers’ rations. His argument—baseless at the time—was that chewing gum had miraculous abilities to quench thirst, stave off hunger, and dissipate nervous tension.