Ryan Wong

Oct 18, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Gauri Awasthi |Ashaki M. Jackson |Ryan Wong

Bruna Dantas Lobato is the author of BLUE LIGHT HOURS (Grove Atlantic, 2024). Essay Editor Steffan Triplett conducted the Q&A. Donate to The Offing! Our Patreon supporters received early access to this Q&A with Bruna Dantas Lobato, as well as exclusive access to the interview video. The Offing pays our contributors, and we appreciate the help of all our supporters in sustaining our work. ◆Steffan Triplett: I wanted to give you a belated congratulations on the National Book Award win.

Jul 29, 2024 | fastcompany.com | Ryan Wong

When I was a kid, my father owned a coffee shop. For his 10 or so employees, my Dad had a simple pay philosophy: If he liked someone, he paid them more. Of course, that’s not how major corporations pay people—in theory, anyway. Most corporations have a detailed compensation policy that explains how everyone, from employees to contractors, should be rewarded. But at the individual manager level, these policies are often overshadowed by personal opinions.

May 31, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Paul Ayayee |Ryan Wong

AbstractDifferent animal behavioral phenotypes maintained and selectively bred over multiple generations may be underscored by dissimilar gut microbial community compositions or not have any significant dissimilarity in community composition. Operating within the microbiota-gut-brain axis framework, we anticipated differences in gut microbiome profiles between zebrafish (Danio rerio) selectively bred to display the bold and shy personality types.

Mar 27, 2024 | wesleyanargus.com | Ryan Wong

When Talia Rodriguez ’24 recalls her childhood, two things come to mind: sports and food. Growing up in Garrett Park, Maryland, Rodriguez spent much of her time trying every sport under the sun and growing particularly fond of basketball and soccer. When not playing these two sports, she found herself in the kitchen cooking with her family, experimenting with tomato sauce recipes in sixth grade before working her way toward vegan fruitcakes for her mother.

Mar 20, 2024 | medium.com | Ryan Wong

Advanced AI assistants are like pets? Asking questions is a delicate art. In thinking about how AI will have an impact on society and our lives, we frequently recycle old and generic questions whenever there is any technological change. Most generic is to propose that ‘we have to ask ourselves what kind of society we want to live in’. I think we do that a lot of the times. Let’s move on to even more concrete and therefore difficult questions. Some ethicists are examining the human-robot partnership.