How the Internet Became the ‘Cookbook’ of the Drug Trade NYT | Top Stories By: Matt Richtel and Meridith Kohut 31 March 2026 at 20:37 A baffling overdose death took investigators to the frontier of ultra-potent synthetic drugs. The clues were hauntingly familiar. Synthetic opiates called nitazenes, including N-desethyl etonitazene, are increasingly causing fatal overdoses across North America.
Robert Trivers, Eccentric Scientist Who Probed Human Nature, Dies at 83 NYT | Top Stories By: Michael S. Rosenwald 28 March 2026 at 05:56 A visionary evolutionary biologist, he drew comparisons to Charles Darwin with his theories on the genetic roots of seemingly detrimental behaviors like self-deception.