Stephen Snyder

Feb 6, 2025 | theworld.org | Stephen Snyder

WhatsApp — which millions of people use for text messaging and voice and video calls — boasts of its end-to-end encryption, giving users privacy and peace of mind. But on Friday, Meta, the owner of both WhatsApp and Facebook, notified around 90 users to tell them that their phones had been hacked. Malware sold by a company called Paragon Solutions was used to get into those devices. Paragon Solutions, like Pegasus before it, is an Israeli spyware company.

Feb 6, 2025 | theworld.org | Stephen Snyder

In coastal regions worldwide, people have drained swampy areas, sometimes filling them in with soil, and then developed that newly solid land. This process, known as land reclamation, comes with an environmental cost. National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has seen it up close, right under his boots, and written about it in a recent article while he continues on his Out of Eden Walk, tracing the path of human migration.

Jan 30, 2025 | ca.style.yahoo.com | Stephen Snyder

male sex therapistOver the past three decades working as a sex therapist with over 2,500 individuals and couples, I’m consistently struck by how differently women and men think. I don’t know if it’s nature or nurture, and I certainly don’t mean to gender stereotype. But every day in my office, my male and female patients seem so vastly different that they might as well represent two different species.

Jan 23, 2025 | theworld.org | Stephen Snyder

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began a journey in Ethiopia in January 2013. His Out of Eden Walk journey has taken him across 21 countries, tracing humanity’s path out of Africa and across the world. He’s traveled more than 14,000 miles — all of it on foot. Salopek usually speaks to The World about a particular stretch of his adventure, but at this point, Paul has been walking for the past 12 years, so he spoke to The World’s Host, Marco Werman, about just that: the walk itself.

Jan 9, 2025 | theworld.org | Stephen Snyder

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has been tracing the journey of the earliest humans from our origins in East Africa. He has been walking eastward — about 15 miles a day — for the past 11 years. As he travels along, Salopek has been documenting his experiences in a project known as Out of Eden Walk. Being constantly on the go for over a decade can make one think … that’s a lot of places to look for a place to sleep.