Access on-demand webinar hereAvoid a $100,000/month Compliance DisasterMarch 31, 2025: The Clock is Ticking. What if a single overlooked script could cost your business $100,000 per month in non-compliance fines? PCI DSS v4 is coming, and businesses handling payment card data must be prepared.Beyond fines, non-compliance exposes businesses to web skimming, third-party script attacks, and emerging browser-based threats.So, how do you get ready in time?Reflectiz sat down with Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F), for a no-holds-barred discussion about the toughest PCI DSS v4 challenges.Kevin Heffernan, Director of Risk at A&F, shared actionable insights on:What worked (and saved $$$)What didn't (and cost time & resources)What they wish they had known earlier Watch the Full PCI DSS v4 Webinar Now(Free On-Demand Access Learn from A&F's Compliance Experts)What's Changing in PCI DSS v4.0.1?PCI DSS v4 introduces stricter security standardsespecially for third-party scripts, browser security, and continuous monitoring. Two of the biggest challenges for online merchants are requirements 6.4.3 and 11.6.1.Requirement 6.4.3 Payment Page Script SecurityMost businesses rely on third-party scripts for checkout, analytics, live chat, and fraud detection. But attackers exploit these scripts to inject malicious code into payment pages (Magecart-style attacks).New PCI DSS v4 mandates:Script Inventory Every script loaded in a user's browser must be logged and justified.Integrity Controls Businesses must verify the integrity of all payment page scripts.Authorization Only approved scripts should execute on checkout pages.How A&F Tackled It:Conducted script audits to identify unnecessary or risky third-party dependencies.Used Content Security Policy (CSP) to restrict third-party scripts.Utilized smart automated approvals to save time and money.Requirement 11.6.1 Change & Tamper Detection Even if your scripts are secure today, attackers can inject malicious changes later.New PCI DSS v4 mandates:Mechanism - Continuous change and tamper detection mechanism deployment for payment page script changes.Unauthorised changes - HTTP header monitoring to detect unauthorized modifications.Integrity - Weekly integrity checks (or more frequently based on risk levels and indicators of compromise).How A&F Tackled It:Deployed continuous monitoring to detect unauthorized modifications.Used Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) for centralized monitoring.Created automated alerts and batch-approval for script, structure and header changes on checkout pages.Try the Reflectiz PCI Dashboard Free 30-Day TrialRecent Update: The SAQ A Exemption ClarificationA recent clarification from the PCI council states the following regarding SAQ A marchants [self-assessment questionnaire]:Eligibility Requirement: Merchants must confirm their site is not susceptible to script attacks affecting e-commerce systems.Compliance Options:Implement protection techniques (like those in PCI DSS Requirements 6.4.3 and 11.6.1) either directly or through a third partyOR obtain confirmation from PCI DSS-compliant service providers that their embedded payment solution includes script attack protectionLimited Applicability: The criteria only applies to merchants using embedded payment pages/forms (e.g., iframes) from third-party service providers.Exemptions: Merchants who redirect customers to payment processors or fully outsource payment functions are not subject to this requirement.Recommendations: Merchants should consult with their service providers about secure implementation and verify with their acquirer that SAQ A is appropriate for their environment.Note that even if you qualify for SAQ A, your entire website must still be secured. Many businesses will still need real-time monitoring and alerts, making full compliance solutions relevant regardless.A&F's Top 3 PCI DSS v4 Pitfalls (And How to Avoid Them)With multiple payment pages to secure across the globe, Abercrombie and Fitch's compliance journey was complex. Kevin Heffernan, Director of Risk, has suggested three main mistakes that online merchants often make.Mistake #1: Relying only on CSPWhile Content Security Policy (CSP) helps prevent script-based attacks, it doesn't cover dynamic changes in scripts or external resources. PCI DSS requires additional integrity verification.Mistake #2: Ignoring Third-Party VendorsMost retailers rely on external payment gateways, chat widgets, and tracking scripts. If these vendors don't comply, you're still responsible. Regularly audit third-party integrations.Mistake #3: Treating Compliance as a One-Time FixPCI DSS v4 mandates ongoing monitoringmeaning you can't just audit scripts once and forget about it. Continuous monitoring solutions will be critical for compliance.Try the Reflectiz PCI Dashboard for 30 day free-trial. Final Takeaways from A&F's PCI Compliance JourneyRisk Assessment First Identify and map vulnerabilities, supply chain risks, and components' misconfigurations before jumping into compliance changes.Secure Your Payment Page Scripts Configure strict HTTP security headers, such as CSP.Monitor Continuously Use continuous monitoring, SIEM, and tamper detection alerts to catch modifications before attackers exploit them.Don't Assume Vendors Have You Covered Audit third-party scripts and integrationscompliance responsibility doesn't stop at your firewall.The March 31st 2025 Deadline is Closer Than You ThinkWaiting too long to start creates security gaps and risks costly fines. A&F's experience shows why early preparation is critical. Avoid Costly PCI Fines - Watch the PCI DSS v4 Webinar Now to learn how a major global retailer tackled complianceand what you can do today to avoid fines and security risks.Try the Reflectiz PCI Dashboard for 30 day free-trial. Found this article interesting? This article is a contributed piece from one of our valued partners. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.

Many companies are using more than one AI on the enterprise side, yet consumer software applications typically embed only one.For example, Microsoft Office applications on personal and family subscription plans offer only Copilot but the company includes OpenAI, DeepSeek and other AI models in its model catalog for Azure AI Foundry. Recently Microsoft announced that people will soon be able to run DeepSeek R1 locally on Copilot + PCs, too. Weirdly, they announced that despite being in the midst of investigating DeekSeeks potential abuses of Microsofts and partner OpenAIs services. But its not just Microsoft that appears conflicted about distributing AI models and tools. Many other companies are, too. What the derp is going on here?As tech giants race to build larger language models, enterprises are quietly revealing an uncomfortable truth: LLMs are becoming commoditized workhorses, not differentiated solutions, says Brooke Hartley Moy, CEO and founder of Infactory, a generative AI-based fact-checking firm.So, what does that mean in the scheme of things? Companies are using large language models (LLM) as utilities instead of as panaceas.Companies are building sophisticated AI stacks that treat general-purpose LLMs as foundational utilities while deploying specialized AI copilots and agents for coding, design, analytics, and industry-specific tasks. This fragmentation exposes the hubris of incumbent AI companies marketing themselves as complete solutions, Moy adds.Related:Meanwhile, AI tools embedded in consumer software are commonly and quietly beefed-up with additional AI models underneath in the quest to deliver a true brand differentiator.And together thats why using or offering multiple AI models are trending across tools and applications. But why isnt one AI model enough?LLMs Getting Better or Smarter?One would think that LLMs are improving or getting smarter with each new whirlwind release of new features. But are these models really getting smarter or are they illusions under wrap -- uh, wrappers?Wrappers are code or programs that are literally wrapped around other programs. There are a variety of reasons for doing that. In the case of AI tools, wrappers typically add functionalities to the underlying application like a generative AI chatbot. In some cases, wrappers work so well that they appear to be smarter AIs when actually they just have more or better features.LLMs themselves are not getting very much smarter with each new upgrade or model release although they are getting better at what they do. Even so, one is quite often not enough to get work done at professional levels.Related:The only time it makes sense to use a single, giant, monolithic GenAI model is when you do not know what you are doing because the inputs and goals of the end user, and the outputs and actions to be taken are extremely varied, says Kjell Carlsson, PhD, head of AI strategy at Domino Data Lab.In almost all instances, you can get better performance --cheaper, faster and potentially more secure and more accurate -- by leveraging multiple models in tandem. This can take the form of using multiple GenAI models together, Carlsson adds.This inconvenient truth isnt lost on incumbent generative AI providers. Take the search engine Perplexity AI, for example. It was developed over its own models and later added a fine-tuned model combining the speed of GPT-3.5 and the capabilities of GPT-4. Later still, it adds open-source models. Today it is driven by GPT-4 Omni. Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Sonor Large, Grok-2, and both OpenAIs O1 and DeepSeeks r1 reasoning models.Offering a mix of LLMs tends to establish differentiation in solutions more so than a single model can muster. But theres a price to pay for mixing and matching LLMs too.Related:While there's a benefit to harnessing multiple models, it can also be challenging without the right orchestration. Companies need holistic tools for training, governing, and securing their AI -- or risk getting lost in weeds, says Maryam Ashoori, senior director of product management, watsonx at IBM.Multimodal Models to the Rescue or NotBut what of the multimodal models like ChatGPT (GPT 4o), Sora, Gemini, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet -- the Swiss army knives of the AI world? Those AI models can work with different types of inputs or outputs -- in combo or alone such as text, code, images, video, and voice -- like newfangled multitools. Cant they do everything?Multimodality may sound like a remedy for generative AIs shortcomings in multifaceted processes, but this, too, is more effective in the context of purpose-specific models, says Maxime Vermeir, senior director of AI strategy at ABBYY. Multimodality doesnt imply an AI multitool that can excel in any area, but rather an AI model that can draw insights from various forms of rich data beyond just text, such as images or audio. Still, this can be narrowed for businesses benefit, such as accurately recognizing images included in specific document types to further increase the autonomy of a purpose-built AI tool. While having multiple generative AI tools may sound more cumbersome than a single catch-all solution, the difference in ROI is undeniable, Vermeir adds.But thats not to say that the behemoth LLMs arent useful.A big one like Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT is usually good enough for more tasks, but they can be expensive. It is typically easier to have smaller specialized models that are cheaper to operate, and that you can run on a single machine on-premise, says RelationalAI's VP of research ML, Nikolaos Vasiloglou.You can always merge two or more specialized LLMs to solve a more complex problem. On the other hand, in many tasks. especially in the ones that require complex reasoning, the small ones cannot reach the performance of the bigger ones, even if you combine them, Vasiloglou adds.Why Employees and Other Users Are Using More Than One AIEmployees and consumers may or may not be aware of multiple models underneath their favorite generative AI chatbot. But either way, the savvier users are going to mix AIs on their end of things too.Its common because different models have been trained differently and excel at different tasks, says Oriol Zertuche, CEO at Cody AI. For example, Anthropic's Claude is exceptional at writing and coding, ChatGPT is great for general purpose tasks and speaking to the internet, while Gemini is multimodal with an impressive context length of over 2 million tokens, enabling it to handle video, audio, PDFs and more. Others, like Gemini 1.5, are just okay at everything, so can be used as general purpose GenAIs.This mirrors how businesses use different tools for different tasks, where each one serves a specific purpose. For example, email can be used for internal communication, but there are now many collaboration platforms that enable more immediate and effective communication, Zertuche adds.Then theres the need to pull outputs from specialized models and combine them in other software to produce a unified work such as a research paper, an advertisement, or an ebook.Theres also a business case for using AIs according to how well they are suited for specific domain use. For example, models and tools that are specialized in medicine, academic research, film production, finance, or marketing are optimized for tasks, rules, and vocabularies unique to those domains. Even so, one model or tool isnt likely to be enough.By combining models like OpenAIs o1 for strategy, Anthropic's Claude for creative writing and Googles Gemini Deep Research, marketers can achieve a balance of creativity, precision, adaptability, and innovation to scale their impact. Using multiple models also avoids vendor lock-in, ensures access to cutting-edge advancements, and allows for task-specific optimization, which can enhance both efficiency and impact, saysLisa Cole, CMO at 2X.Serving a Mess of AIs DailyOh, how quickly the AIs pileup after all this activity! In the South, the saying make a mess of something comes to mind. It means combining whatever you have on hand to make a meal. AI being embedded in everything is leading to a mess of something in companies but the result doesnt necessarily satisfy everyones hunger.In every CRM or Event Platform or CMS there seems to be their own generative AI that leads to a different LLM. Some of the issues that arise have to do with convenience. The other issue is data age. AI models can start and end with data that differs per the model. Some have information that is over 3 years old, some have information from the last 6 months, says Dan Gudema, co-founder of PAIGN AI, a tool which uses seven AI models to create blogs, images, social posts for lead generation for small businesses.Adding to the mess is that all the embedded AIs may be using the same models -- or not.It's important to distinguish between using multiple models in the same Generative AI tool -- for example, switching between GPT4 and o1 models within ChatGPT -- and using different Generative AI tools, says Verax AI CEO Leo Feinberg.Using the different language models in the same tool has multiple reasons, the main ones being that every model has its strengths and weaknesses and therefore different types of queries to ChatGPT may be handled better or worse depending on the model. Using multiple Generative AI tools -- which are often powered by different models behind the scenes as well -- has somewhat different reasons, Feinberg adds.The different reasons behind using different generative AI tools range from user preference to project needs. In any case, there are a lot of AIs lurking about and being used here and there in almost every home, vehicle, and company.A mess of AI somethings, indeed. So, what happens next?We have seen a consolidation in the market with a view of one supermodel, now we are seeing fragmentation and the introduction of purpose-specific models, says Cobus Greyling, chief evangelist at Kore.ai, an AI agent platform and solutions producer. For instance, smaller models focused specifically on reasoning, coding, models following a more structured approach or excelling at reasoning. Thats why, model orchestration will become increasingly important in the near future.

When companies back major digitalization initiatives and invest in new technologies, its another way of saying that they want to be data driven in their transactional operations and in their business intelligence.However, no matter how scintillating a new technology is, it willbe only as good as the data that drives it. This is a main reason why data management, as it has over the past five years, has continued to dominate CIOs as a top concern.Are we winning or losing the data management battle?In 2023, healthcare experts reported that as much as 95% of hospital data goes unused, and it is likely that high percentages of unused data plagued other industry sectors as well. Also in 2023, only 16% of organizations surveyed believed that data had been successfully integrated into their business processes and that the data was actively being used for decision making.Finally, there are the AI systems that everybody wants -- yet, how soon will they get them if data is a problem?GenAI is NOT a pure data science problem. It is equally a DATA problem, writes Chad Anderson, CEO at Gable.ai. Data is fuel for the model, in the same way a healthy diet is fuel for an athlete. If garbage goes in, then garbage comes out.Most CIOs I talk with confirm this. Consequently, they are unsure as to how much they are willing to trust their data, and they understand that data preparation, integration and management are still works in progress.Related:Drafting a Data Battle PlanFor most organizations, achieving high quality, fully integrated and trustworthy data is a battle. It therefore requires a battle plan.A majority of companies find that they already have battle plans. Unfortunately, these plans tend to address data only on certain fronts in the battlefield. They lack an overall approach to data that can successfully bring all data under universal, high-quality management.There are data purity, governance and security standards that are set forth as SLAs for data vendors.There are ETL (extract-transform-load) rules and operations that IT defines whenever corporate data is moved from one data repository to another, and that ensure that the data being moved is first cleaned, prepared and formatted for the target data repository before it is integrated into that repository.There are programmed routines that edit and verify data throughout the day as workers use applications and databases.In short, there is a lot being done already to assure that data is of high quality and can be used. Yet, CIOs, IT staffers and end users still have reservations that the data they use is of high and trustworthy quality.Related:Why is this?A Plan of AttackDisparate dataIn 2023, three out of four companies reported that internal collaboration was hindered because of data silos.Individual pools of data in user departments create inconsistencies between data and business decisions. They also produce disparate forms of data that cant be integrated into a common data repository without undergoing ETL.The plot thickens when data is ingested from outside vendor sources that potentially represent data in alternate formats. This data must also be ETLd.Knocking down data silos is one way that companies can help achieve data unity. Another way is by automating all data intake processes with ETL so that data is normalized before it ever enters a data repository.Lack of data controlIn 2024, data generation reached 361 billion emails sent daily, 16 million texts sent every minute, and 378.77 million terabytes of data created daily. Data is streaming into enterprises at enormous volumes and velocities and not all of it is useful.There are companies that are afraid to lose data because they think it could be useful "some day". However, its also important to control the data flow by determining what you need to keep and what you dont. For instance, in network communications, its not useful to maintain all data in the stream, including handshakes and other jitter that goes on between devices. Eliminating some of the metadata from the flow seems like a straightforward thing to do, but too many companies arent willing to do it.Related:Organizing dataApproximately 80% of data in companies is now unstructured, meaning that this data comes in with no data key, metadata, etc., that would be needed to manage or access it in a meaningful way.Getting unstructured data under control so it can be utilized by the enterprise is the number one data management challenge for most companies, because it takes time (human time, in most cases) to develop keys or tags for the data, in some cases transforming the data into structured data.Without taking this first step toward organizing data, businesses will be unable to manage, mine or use the data they collect.SecurityIBMs average estimated cost of a data breach in 2024 was $4.88 million. If organizations are going to avoid data breaches, their governance and security policies and practices must be airtight and up to date, and security safeguards around data must be robust. This includes not only protecting internal data repositories but also assuring that data incoming from and outgoing to third parties and the cloud are properly secured and, when in transit, preferably encrypted. Additionally, companies should set aside dollars forconducting annual (at a minimum) cyber and internal audits, using outside firms to do these.ConclusionData management is a foundational piece for digitalization, AI, automation, new system deployment and edge computing. There is virtually no part of the enterprise that data doesnt touch.This might be why CIOs and IT leaders wring their hands in frustration when they think about how they will get their arms around all of this data. However, in the course of their frustration, its also time to take stock of the steps that have already been taken to better manage data, whether its been rendering unstructured data usable, normalizing data so it can work with more than one system, or even knocking down a data silo or two.What now could greatly benefit these companies is the orchestration of a complete data management plan. This plan would undoubtedly reveal holes in the data management battle lines that need to be filled, but it will also reveal those areas where true progress has been made.

This article first appeared in The Checkup,MIT Technology Reviewsweekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first,sign up here. This week saw the release of some fascinating news about some very furry rodentsso-called woolly micecreated as part of an experiment to explore how we might one day resurrect the woolly mammoth. The idea of bringing back extinct species has gained traction thanks to advances in sequencing of ancient DNA. In recent years, scientists have recovered genetic blueprints from the remains of dodo birds, more than 10,000 prehistoric humans, and frozen mammoths, a species that went extinct around 2000 BCE. This ancient genetic data is deepening our understanding of the pastfor instance, by shedding light on interactions among prehistoric humans. But researchers are becoming more ambitious. Rather than just reading ancient DNA, they want to use itby inserting it into living organisms. Colossal Biosciences, the biotech company behind the woolly mice, says thats its plan. The eventual goal is to modify elephants with enough mammoth DNA to result in something resembling the extinct pachyderm. To be sure, there is a long way to go. The mice Colossal created include several genetic changes previously known to make mice furry or long-haired. That is, the changes were mammoth-like, but not from a mammoth. In fact, only a single letter of uniquely mammoth DNA was added to the mice. Because this idea is so new and attracting so much attention, I decided it would be useful to create a record of previous attempts to add extinct DNA to living organisms. And since the technology doesnt have a name, lets give it one: chronogenics. Examples are exceptionally few currently, says Ben Novak, lead scientist at Revive & Restore, an organization that applies genetic technology to conservation efforts. Novak helped me track down examples, and I also got ideas from Harvard geneticist George Churchwho originally envisioned the mammoth projectas well as Beth Shapiro, lead scientist at Colossal. The starting point for chronogenics appears to be in 2004. That year, US scientists reported theyd partly re-created the deadly 1918 influenza virus and used it to infect mice. After a long search, they had retrieved examples of the virus from a frozen body in Alaska, which had preserved the germ like a time capsule. Eventually, they were able to reconstruct the entire virusall eight of its genesand found it had lethal effects on rodents. This was an alarming start to the idea of gene de-extinction. As we know from movies like The Thing, digging up frozen creatures from the ice is a bad idea. Many scientists felt that recovering the 1918 fluwhich had killed 30 million peoplecreated an unnecessary risk that the virus could slip loose, setting off a new outbreak. Viruses are not considered living things. But for the first example of chronogenics involving animals, we have to wait only until 2008, when Australian researchers Andrew Pask and Marilyn Renfree collected genetic data from a Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, that had been kept in a jar of ethanol (the last of these carnivorous marsupials died in a Hobart zoo in 1936). The Australians then added a short fragment of the extinct animals DNA to mice and showed it could regulate the activity of another gene. This was, at one level, an entirely routine study of gene function. Scientists often make DNA changes to mice to see what happens. The difference here was that they were studying extinct genes, which they estimated accounts for 99% of the genetic diversity that has ever existed. The researchers used almost religious language to describe where the DNA had come from. Genetic information from an extinct species can be resurrected, they wrote. And in doing so, we have restored to life the genetic potential of a fragment of this extinct mammalian genome. That brings us to what I think is the first commercial effort to employ extinct genes, which came to our attention in 2016. Gingko Bioworks, a synthetic-biology company, started hunting in herbariums for specimens of recently extinct flowers, like one that grew on Mauis lava fields until the early 20th century. Then the company isolated some of the genes responsible for their scent molecules. We did in fact insert the genes into yeast strains and measure the molecules, says Christina Agapakis, Gingkos former senior vice president for creative and marketing, who led the project. Ultimately, though, Ginkgo worked with a smell artist to imitate those odors using commercially available aroma chemicals. This means the resulting perfumes (which are for sale) use extinct genes as inspiration, not as actual ingredients. Thats a little bit similar to the woolly mouse project. Some scientists complained this week that when, or if, Colossal starts to chrono-engineer elephants, it wont really be able to make all the thousands of DNA changes needed to truly re-create the appearance and behavior of a mammoth. Instead, the result will be just a crude approximation of an extinct creature, one scientist said. Agapakis suggests not being too literal-minded about gene retrieval from the past. As an artwork, I saw how the extinct flower made different people feel a deep connection with nature, a sadness and loss at something gone forever, and a hope for a different kind of relationship to nature in the future, she says. So I do think there is a very powerful and poetic ethical and social component here, a demand that we care for these woolly creatures and for our entanglements with nature more broadly. To wrap up our short list of known efforts at chronogenics, we found only a few more examples. In 2023, a Japanese team added a single mutation found in Neanderthals to mice, to study how it changed their anatomy. And in unpublished research, a research group at Carlsberg Laboratory, in Copenhagen, says it added a genetic mutation to barley plants after sifting through 2-million-year-old DNA recovered from a mound in Greenland. That change, to a light-receptor gene, could make the crop tolerant to the Arctics extremely long summer days and winter nights. Now read the rest of The Checkup Read more from MIT Technology Reviews archive How many genetic edits can be made to a cell before it expires? The answer is going to be important if you want to turn an elephant into a mammoth. In 2019, scientists set a record with more than13,000 edits in one cell. We covered a project in Denmark where ancient DNA was replicated in a barley plant. Its part of a plan to adapt crops to grow in higher latitudesa useful tool as the world heats up. To learn more about prehistoric animals, some paleontologists are building robotic models that fly, swim, and slither around. For more, have a look at this MIT Technology Review story. The researcher who discovered how to make a mouse with extra-long hair, back in 1994, is named Jean Hebert. Last year we profiled Heberts idea for staying young by gradually replacing your brain with substitute tissue. Looking for an unintended consequence of genetic engineering? Last year, journalist Douglas Main reported how the use of GMO crops has caused the evolution of weeds resistant to herbicides. From around the web The United Kingdom now imports half the donor sperm used in IVF procedures. An alleged donor shortage is causing sperm to become more expensive than beluga caviar, on a per-gram basis. (Financial Times) Jason Bannan, the agent who led the FBIs scientific investigation into the origins of covid-19, is speaking out on why he thinks the pandemic was started by a lab accident in China. (Vanity Fair) An Australian company, Cortical Labs, released what its calling the first commercial biological computer. The device combines silicon chips with thousands of human neurons. (Boing Boing) The Trump administration is terminating medical research grants that focus on gender identity, arguing that such studies are often unscientific and ignore biological realities. Researchers vowed to press on. (Inside Medicine). The US Senate held confirmation hearings for Stanford University doctor Jay Bhattacharya to be director of the National Institutes of Health, which funds nearly $48 billion in research each year. Bhattacharya gained prominence during the covid-19 pandemic for opposing lockdowns. (NPR) Francis Collins has retired from the National Institutes of Health. The widely admired geneticist spent 12 years as director of the agency, through 2021, and before that he played a key role in the Human Genome Project. Early in his career he identified the gene that causes cystic fibrosis. (New York Times)

The architect and co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro was widely credited with helping to shape a multidisciplinary approach to architecture that integrated art and urban design. His work included major cultural and public projects such as New Yorks High Line and The Shed, as well as the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art and the redevelopment of Lincoln CenterSource: Diller Scofidio + RenfroRicardo ScofidioRicardo Scofidio died on 6 March 2025, with his death announced by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), the practice he co-founded with Elizabeth Diller in 1981.In a statement, the studio said: Ric had a profound impact on our architectural practice, establishing the studio with a mission to make space on his own terms. The firms partners and principals, many of whom have collaborated with him for decades, will extend his architectural legacy in the work we will continue to perform every day.Born in New York in 1935, Scofidio studied architecture at Cooper Union before completing his education at Columbia University. He began teaching at Cooper Union in 1965 and remained a professor there for more than 40 years. His partnership with Diller, initially focused on installation art and conceptual projects, evolved into a practice that has been widely recognised for its work in cultural and public architecture.One of the firms most well-known projects is the High Line in New York, designed in collaboration with James Corner Field Operations and Piet Oudolf. The elevated park, built on a disused freight rail line, has been credited with influencing a wave of similar projects in cities worldwide. The practice was also responsible for The Shed, a cultural venue at Hudson Yards, designed with Rockwell Group. The 364 million structure includes a telescoping outer shell that allows the building to adapt for different performances and exhibitions.The High LineSource: ShutterstockThe Broad, Los AngelesSource: ShutterstockThe Shed, New YorkSource: Shutterstock1/3show captionOther significant projects include the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art, completed in 2019, and the redevelopment of Lincoln Center, which included renovations to Alice Tully Hall and the Juilliard School. The firm also designed The Broad, a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles, and Zaryadye Park in Moscow, a 32-acre public space near the Kremlin.DS+R was also involved in the early stages of the proposed London Centre for Music, a planned concert hall at the Barbican. The project was cancelled in 2021 after the City of London Corporation withdrew funding. The firm is also working on V&A East Storehouse, a new collections facility for the Victoria & Albert Museum, set to open in 2025.Scofidio and Diller were jointly awarded a MacArthur Foundation genius grant in 1999, the first architects to receive the award. In 2009, they were named among Time magazines 100 most influential people in the world.Scofidio was married to Allana Jeanne Deserio, with whom he had four children, before divorcing in 1979. He later married his professional partner, Elizabeth Diller.A memorial service is being planned, with details to be announced in the coming weeks.>> Also read:Diller Scofidio+ Renfros Barbican plans amass nearly 1,000 objections as City recommends approval>> Also read:Diller Scofidio+ Renfros concert hall has been set up to fail

Publicly launched tomorrow (8 March) on International Womens Day, this initial phase of its Built Barriers campaign will create a visual archive of real-life examples, documenting how those who identify and live as women are affected by spaces that werent designed with them or their safety in mind.This evidence base for change will help inform the groups next project, which will explore best-practice design from around the world, spotlighting gender-inclusive projects to show how thoughtful design can create spaces where all people of all genders can thrive.The group said it was asking both members of the public and those who work in the design and built environment to photograph and share samples of the problem: the designed moments in daily life where women are inhibited by the built environment.AdvertisementPart W said it hoped the Built Barriers campaign would make the invisible visible.The volunteer-led group said: Every day, women navigate spaces that werent designed with them in mind. A missing lift that makes travelling with a pram impossible. A poorly lit underpass that becomes a no-go zone after dark. A building without adequate facilities for parents or carers.Every day women navigate spaces not designed with them in mindOne photo, one barrier, one story at a time. Whether you're a parent struggling with access, a commuter facing safety concerns, or anyone whos encountered design that excludes, your perspective matters.Part W said photos could range from snaps of daily life at work, during the morning commute, afternoon school run, or evening walk home.To take part, the group is asking for photos of design barriers in the built environment to be shared on Instagram or LinkedIn by tagging @PartW and using #BuiltBarriers.AdvertisementSubmissions can also be emailed to collective@part-w.com with a brief description of where the barrier is and the impact it has on womens daily lives.A pecha kucha-style launch event held earlier this week (4 March) was introduced by Sarah Castle, creative director at Part W and founding director of IF_DO.A number of leading figures also presented their own personal examples of how design created a barrier for them: Open Citys new chief executive Manijeh Verghese; Hana Loftus, director of HAT Projects; Dinah Bornat, co-founder of ZCD Architects; former architect and Confidence for Female Leaders coach, Ishwariya Rajamohan; Elena Tsolakis, director of Kyriakos Tsolakis Architects; Rebekah Paczek, director of public affairs, social impact and community relations at The Earls Court Development Company ; and Ellie Cosgrave director of Publica's CIC and research.HAT Projects Hana Loftus sharing her experiences of daily design barriers at the Part W #builtbarriers launch (Roca London Gallery, 4 March).2025-03-07Richard Waitecomment and share

Scofidio led the New York studio alongside his partner in life and work Elizabeth Diller, and fellow architect Charles Renfro.Under their watch, the practice famously designed New Yorks High Line (2009-2019), a 1.5-mile-long public park built on an abandoned, elevated railroad in Manhattan; and The Shed (2019), the iconic home of an arts and culture non-profit.DS+Rs most high-profile projects in the UK include The Tide (2019), a High Line-esque walkway in Londons Greenwich Peninsula; the V&A East Storehouse (set to complete later this year) in Londons Olympic Park; and London West Wall, a controversial mixed-use scheme for the former Museum of London site approved in April 2024.AdvertisementThe practice was also behind never-realised plans for a 288 million London Centre for Music on the Barbican Estate, scrapped in 2021, as well as a major overhaul of Aberdeens Union Terrace Gardens, axedby Aberdeen Council in 2012.DS+R announced the news of Scofidio's death on its Instagram account yesterday (6 March).The studio's statement read: It is with great sadness that we announce DS+R founder Ricardo Scofidio has passed away peacefully on March 6, 2025 at the age of 89.He was surrounded by his family, including his partner in life and work, Elizabeth Diller.DS+R went on to say that Scofidio, a professor emeritus at the Cooper Union School of Architecture, had had a profound impact on our architectural practice, establishing the studio with a mission to make space on his own terms.AdvertisementThe firms partners and principals, many of whom have collaborated with him for decades, will extend his architectural legacy in the work we will continue to perform every day.In 2019, Scofidio and Diller were named winners of the Royal Academys architecture award.Recognised for their inspiring and enduring contribution to architecture, the architects were described by judges as an innovative partnership whose work consistently shows how buildings can enhance cities and capture the public imagination. Source:City of London Corporation/Sheppard Robson/Diller Scofidio + Renfro Sheppard Robson and Diller Scofidio + Renfro's London Wall West scheme (November 2023)In a joint statement at the time, the husband-and-wife team described how they had started as dissidents, challenging architecture as a self-contained discipline and probing its intersections with other cultural forms using a large toolkit of media.The design duo said a combination of naivety and determination had allowed them to realise some challenging projects over time.They added: It was not until our collaboration expanded to include new partners and a growing staff that we were truly able to push architectures untapped agency and convert provocations into meaningful action in cities and institutions.Jury chair Alan Stanton, co-founder of Stanton Williams, told the AJ in 2019: [Diller and Scofidios] architecture is the product of experimentation and taking risk as well as thought, analysis and investigation. It springs from the creative mulch that comes from having worked with other disciplines and practitioners.'Their work is wonderful, I look at it with a deep sense of envy which is always a good sign.11 ds+r the shed iwan baan

According to the CDC, 48 million people in the US have trouble hearing with one or both of their ears. This doesn't just affect older adults -- the CDC also reports that five in 10 young people listen to their music or other audio too loudly, and 4 in 10 young people are around dangerously loud noises during events like concerts and sports games.To pay closer attention to our hearing health and learn more about what we can do to protect it, we wellness editors decided to take Apple's Hearing Test. This is what we learned and how we aim to do things differently going forward.What is the Apple Hearing Test?In the fall of 2024, Apple announced its clinically validated Hearing Test with its Hearing Aid and Protection features. To turn your AirPods Pro 2 into hearing aids, you must first take the Hearing Test based on pure-tone audiometry.To take Apple's Hearing Test, you need the AirPods Pro 2 and a compatible iPhone or iPad. The test takes about 5 minutes to complete. First, connect your AirPods Pro 2 to your iPhone or iPad. Go to Settings, click on your AirPods and under Hearing Health, click Take a Hearing Test.Anna's experience: I had no issues the first time I took the test. The second time, however, before I could take the test, I was asked to adjust my AirPods or use different Ear Tips. I kept moving them around in my ear and eventually went into my bathroom and shut the door for complete quiet. Then, it worked.I found the test simple and straightforward, but it was hard for me to concentrate solely on the tones I was hearing. I ended up having to close my eyes to focus (and so I wouldn't get distracted by the sound of my own blinking). Even though my bathroom is the quietest place in my apartment, I could still hear some outside noises, so if you do take the test, I would recommend doing so in the quietest environment possible. Anna Gragert/CNETI also like that the results are saved in the Health app so you can look back at them. There, you can also find information about environmental sound levels, headphone audio levels, noise and headphone notifications and articles on hearing.Nasha's experience: I also found the hearing test process easy to follow, with clear instructions guiding me through each step. One of the biggest challenges I encountered (similar to Anna) was finding a truly quiet environment. I attempted to do the test at my office, and despite it being a relatively calm space, the app repeatedly prompted me to move somewhere quieter. I think this highlights a potential limitation as many people may struggle to find a place that meets the app's noise-level requirements, especially in workplaces or busy households.Once I found a moment of quiet, I could focus on the test itself. A few moments into the test, I realized I needed to close my eyes to concentrate on the sounds. The test involves listening for faint beeps at different frequencies, and while there were times I was sure I heard them, there were also moments of doubt. Was that a beep, or just my mind playing tricks on me? This experience underscored how subjective hearing perception can be.Overall, Apple's hearing test is a useful tool for raising awareness about hearing health, but the need for a silent environment could be a barrier for some people. It's a good reminder that while at-home screenings are helpful, they're not a replacement for professional hearing evaluations.What we learnedAccording to Apple, "Hearing test results (audiograms) are the result of an audiometry test and show your hearing ability at different frequencies of sound measured in decibels (dBHL). The higher the decibels, the louder a sound needs to be for you to hear it."The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association states, "Decibels, or dB, describe loudness. The term dB HL describes your hearing loss in decibels."With Apple's Hearing Test, the average hearing for both the right and left ears is based on the four frequencies most important for speech: 500Hz, 1kHz, 2kHz and 4kHz. Anna's results: Lately, I've been concerned about my hearing, so I was pleasantly surprised that Apple's Hearing Test indicated that I have "little to no hearing loss." It specifically revealed that my left ear is 3 dBHL while my right ear is 5 dBHL. When I took the test a second time, my left ear was 2 dBHL and my right ear was 4 dBHL. Anna Gragert/CNETIn other words, the degree of hearing loss in my right ear is greater than that in my left ear. I always thought my hearing was worse in my left ear, especially because I tend to have more sinus issues on my left side, so this was interesting.It was cool to be able to get this information right on my phone instead of having to take the time (and money) to do so in an audiologist's office. Though Hampden Hearing Center states that most insurance plans will cover a hearing test if it's medically necessary, it depends. I also wouldn't classify my curiosity about my hearing as medically necessary.Nasha's results: My hearing test results showed that I have little to no hearing loss, which was reassuring. The results of the first test I took said my left ear is 3 dBHL and my right ear is 5 dBHL (same as Anna!). I took the test a second time because the first time I was at my office and there was a little noise from the air conditioner. The second time around, my results were even better than the first (this time, I took it in a quiet room in my home) -- my left ear is -6 dBHL and my right ear is 3 dBHL. Nasha Addarich Martnez/CNET Nasha Addarich Martnez/CNETGiven that I live in New York, where noise pollution is a constant factor -- whether it's noise from the subway, construction sites or traffic -- it's something I've become more aware of recently. This test was a good reminder of how important it is to be proactive about your hearing health.One key takeaway for me is that while my hearing is currently in good shape, long-term exposure to high decibel levels could change that. I've learned that everyday city sounds can contribute to gradual hearing damage. Since taking Apple's Hearing Test, I now carry my Loop earplugs with me at all times to wear on the train or when I'm in noisy environments. How we will take care of our hearing health going forwardAfter you're done taking your hearing test, you can read articles about how to protect your hearing and why it's important. In general, that's one of the great things about Apple's hearing features -- they remind you of how important hearing health is and that you should focus on protecting it.Being conscious around loud noisesIf you're around loud noises, such as at a concert or in a restaurant with blaring music, make sure you give your ears a break afterward. Or, wear earplugs. The same goes for listening to music through your headphones. Now, whenever I'm listening to music, I ask myself: Does it need to be this loud?Take hearing loss seriouslyLong-term exposure to loud sounds can lead to permanent hearing loss. If I'm ever concerned about this to the point where it feels medically necessary, I will consult an audiologist. This is also important because I would also want to make sure that no other medical conditions are at play.Be aware of other things that can cause hearing lossLoud noises aren't the only things that can cause hearing loss. Infections, head trauma, high blood pressure, diabetes and dental problems are just a few of the unexpected conditions that can lead to hearing loss.

Key Takeaways Today's top CDs earn up to 4.65% APY.APYs can change at any time.Opening a CD now allows you to lock in your rate and enjoy guaranteed earnings. If you've been thinking of opening a certificate of deposit, you may not want to wait much longer. Although CD rates have held relatively steady since the Federal Reserve's January rate pause, banks are still adjusting their annual percentage yields. Just this week, BMO Alto slashed APYs across multiple terms, and one of the top APYs on our list -- America First Credit Union's five-year CD -- dropped to 4.20% after being at 4.25% since November.You can earn up to 4.65% APY with today's best CDs. But, as this week's rate fluctuations show, this could change at any time. So, it could be smart to lock in your APY now. 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If I were in the market for a CD now, I'd invest right now because rates might be lower tomorrow."Here are some of the highest CD rates available now and how much you could earn by depositing different amounts.Best CD rates today Term Highest APY*BankEstimated earnings on $1,000 depositEstimated earnings on $5,000 depositEstimated earnings on $10,000 deposit6 months 4.65%CommunityWide Federal Credit Union$22.99$114.93$229.851 year 4.45%CommunityWide Federal Credit Union$44.50$222.50$445.003 years 4.15%America First Credit Union$129.74$648.69$12,97.385 years 4.20%America First Credit Union$228.40$1,141.98$2,283.97 Experts recommend comparing rates before opening a CD account to get the best APY possible. Enter your information below to get CNET's partners' best rate for your area.What you'll get by opening a CD nowCDs offer a number of benefits, including:Competitive rates: Traditional savings accounts offer minimal APYs, sometimes as low as 0.01%. Tops CDs currently have APYs of 4.50% or more. That can make a difference in your interest earnings.Guaranteed returns: Your APY is locked in when you open a CD, unlike with savings accounts, where interest rates can vary at any time. A CD's fixed rate makes it easy to calculate how much interest you'll earn over time and protects your funds from rate drops after you open your account.Low risk: CDs held by an FDIC-insured bank or NCUA-insured credit union are protected for up to $250,000 per depositor, institution and account category. That means that if your bank fails, your money is safe. Other investments, like stocks, may potentially yield higher returns over the long term, but they're also volatile, which means you could lose your money at any time.Barrier to access: You can withdraw money in a savings account at any time, free of charge (as long as you mind any monthly withdrawal limits). Many CDs, however, charge an early withdrawal penalty if you take your money out before the term is up. This can help you resist the urge to dip into your funds before you need them.Should you consider a savings account instead?CDs have plenty of perks, but they're not always the best option. "It really depends on your goals," said Taylor Kovar, certified financial planner and CEO of 11 Financial.To determine if a CD is the right choice for your money, ask yourself the following questions:When will you need your funds? CDs are great for savings goals with a set timeline, and they come in a range of terms, from as short as three months to several years. If you know you want to buy a home down the road, for example, a five-year CD can be a great way to grow your down payment. If you need instant access to your money with an emergency fund, however, a savings account is a better fit.How much do you have to deposit? Some CDs require a minimum deposit to open an account, typically $500 to $1,000. If you can't find an account with an attractive APY for the amount you want to deposit, try looking into a high-yield savings account with a low or no minimum deposit.Do you want to add money over time? Most CDs (though not all) only allow a one-time deposit. If you'd like to regularly add money to your savings over time, consider a high-yield savings account.Do you need some discipline? If you're worried you'll be tempted to tap into your savings before you need it, a CD imposes an early withdrawal penalty, which can help give you pause. You can earn up to 5% APY on today's best high-yield savings accounts. Check out thetop savings rates now.MethodologyCNET reviews CD rates based on the latest APY information from issuer websites. We evaluated CD rates from more than 50 banks, credit unions and financial companies. We evaluate CDs based on APYs, product offerings, accessibility and customer service.The current banks included in CNET's weekly CD averages include Alliant Credit Union, Ally Bank, American Express National Bank, Barclays, Bask Bank, Bread Savings, Capital One, CFG Bank, CIT, Fulbright, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, MYSB Direct, Quontic, Rising Bank, Synchrony, EverBank, Popular Bank, First Internet Bank of Indiana, America First Federal Credit Union, CommunityWide Federal Credit Union, Discover, Bethpage, BMO Alto, Limelight Bank, First National Bank of America and Connexus Credit Union.*APYs as of March 6, 2025, based on the banks we track at CNET. Earnings are based on APYs and assume interest is compounded annually. More on CDs

March 6, 2025Author John Green on How Tuberculosis Shaped Our Modern WorldNovelist John Green talks about his new nonfiction book, Everything is Tuberculosis, and the inequities in treatment for the highly infectious disease. Anaissa Ruiz Tejada/Scientific AmericanSUBSCRIBE TO Science QuicklyRachel Feltman: For Scientific Americans Science Quickly, Im Rachel Feltman.If youre familiar with John Green, you might associate him with best-selling young-adult novels like The Fault in Our Stars or with the halcyon days of early YouTube vlogging. But a few years ago John became obsessed with a topic that you might find surprising: tuberculosis.His new book Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out on March 18. Hes here today to tell us how tuberculosis has shaped our worldand why, even though its now curable, it remains our planets deadliest infectious disease.On supporting science journalismIf you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.John, thanks so much for joining us to chat today.John Green: Oh, thanks for having me.Feltman: Tell us about your new book. I think for some folks who are familiar with your work, they might be surprised to hear that youve been so interested in tuberculosis.Green: Yeah, its certainly a change from writing young-adult novels. I became obsessed with tuberculosis in 2019 when I visited a TB hospital in Sierra Leone and met a boy living with tuberculosis who shared a name with my son, Henry.Through my friendship with Henry I really started to think differently about the disease and started to think that the disease, in some ways, is an exemplification of everything thats wrong with the way weve distributed resources and technology over the last 75 years, because tuberculosis has been curable since the 1950s, but its still our deadliest infectious disease. And I just think thats such an indictment of the systems that weve built to improve human health.Feltman: Absolutelywell, and for, for listeners who might be surprised to hear that its the deadliest infectious disease, can you give us a sense of the scope of tuberculosis right now?Green: Yeah, its really astonishing. I mean, I was astonished when I first found out about thisI had no idea that tuberculosis was still a thing, let alone that I would spend [laughs] the next five years of my life writing about it.But every year 10 million people become sick with tuberculosis. About a quarter of all living humans have been infected with TB, but the vast majority of them will never become sick; theyll have what, what we sometimes call latent tuberculosis. But about 10 million people do become sick every year, and of them about 1.25 million die ...Feltman: Hmm.Green: Which is especially tragic and, and unconscionable because tuberculosis has been curable for a really long time. We know what to do. We know how to treat this disease. Its a bacterial infection; we have good antibiotics to fight it. But we just dont do a good job of getting the cure to where its most needed.Feltman: Yeah, so tell us more about your tuberculosis awakening. How did you become aware of this infection?Green: Well, I was in Sierra Leone to learn about the maternal health care system there. My wife and I have worked in maternal health, supporting organizations like Partners In Health, for a long time. On our last day the doctors we were traveling with asked if we could visit this TB hospital because they had a couple patients they were concerned about, and we said sure. And I didnt even know that there were still TB hospitals. I, I thought of TB as a disease that killed, you know, 19th-century British Romantic poets, not a present-tense phenomenon.And when we got to this hospital, this little kid who looked to be about 9 years old, the same age as my son at the time, just grabbed me by the shirt and started walking me around the hospital and took me to the kitchen, took me to the laboratory, had me look inside a microscope and look for TB bacteria on a stained slide, and he was just walking me all around, and finally we made our way back to where the doctors were, and somebody sort of lovingly shooed Henry away, and I said, Whose kid is that? Figured he had to be the kid of somebody working at the hospital. And one of the doctors said, Thats actually a patient, and hes one of the patients were most concerned about.Feltman: Hmm.Green: It turned out that Henry had drug-resistant tuberculosis, and even though he was doing okay at the time because his infection was responding to the drugs they were giving him, they knew that it wasnt responding well enough and they knew that the infection would roar back. And the story of what happened to Henry over the next four yearsand what happened to me, I guess, over the next four yearsis really the story of what Everything Is Tuberculosis is trying to tell.Feltman: Yeah. So once you started digging into the history and, you know, present tense of tuberculosis, what did you find that surprised you the most?Green: In 18th-century England and the United States, as the U.S. was industrializing, it was overwhelmingly the deadliest disease in the world.Along the way I learned that my own great-uncle, my grandfathers brother, died of tuberculosis in 1930, when he was working as a lineman for Alabama Power and Light. I learned that TB shaped our geography in profound ways, helping to found cities like Colorado Springs and Pasadena, California. It changed the way we think about fashion. It was a contributing factor to why I, I currently have a, a shaved face, because [of] the, the so-called revolt against the whisker in the early 20th century. Once we realized TB was caused by bacteria, we worried that all these mens beards must contain lots of bacteria in them, and so there was this revolt against the whisker that led to a lot of clean-shaven faces. TB is everywhere.Feltman: What are you hoping that readers take away from your book?Green: I think the most important thing is to become aware of the TB crisis. This is a crisis that has been unfolding over decades, and when crises unfold in slow motion we often dont pay much attention to them. But right now, especially, the TB crisis is just profound. People have seen their treatment interrupted over the last several weeks, and when we interrupt treatment for people living with TB in the midst of their antibiotic regimens, theres a much greater chance that theyll develop drug resistance, which is a personal catastropheit makes the disease much more likely to be fatalbut its also a societal catastrophe because it means theres more drug-resistant tuberculosis floating around, giving the chance for the disease to evolve even further resistance and potentially evolve resistance to all of our existing tools to fight it, which is a truly terrifying prospect, not just in impoverished communities but for all people everywhere.So I hope that, mostly, they take away an awareness. But to me the more important thing is to resonate with Henrys story. Statistics do a lot of work, and I know that Im on a science podcast, so I have to be pro-statistics. But what really moves us, I think, is human stories.Feltman: Hmm.Green: In some ways this is different from the novels I write; in some ways its the same because Im still writing about smart kids who write poetry and love poetry and wanna be a part of the world and find that they cant be because of illness.Feltman: Hmm.Green: And thats the story that Henry and his family have generously shared with me and the one that I wanted to tell, and so mostly I hope that people walk away from it caring about Henry as I do.Feltman: And why is it, do you think, that, given that tuberculosis is curable, that its existed for so long, why have we not solved this problem globally?Green: Charles Dickens called TB the disease that wealth never warded off ...Feltman: Hmm.Green: Because anybody could get tuberculosis. Kings died of tuberculosis. Thats not the case anymore. Now its a disease primarily affecting those who live in crowded conditions, those who work in crowded, poorly ventilated factories. Its a disease that we closely associate with poverty. We just do not treat all human lives as if they are equally valuable. We do not live up to our promise that all people have been created equal. And thats why we still have tuberculosis.Its not an easy disease to cure, but, you know, my brother had Hodgkin lymphoma a couple years ago. And at no point did anyone say, Well, this isnt a good use of resources to cure your Hodgkin lymphoma, even though it costs a hundred times more to cure my brother of cancer than it costs to cure a TB patient. And yet we hear all the time that its not cost-effective to treat certain kinds of tuberculosis. Henry was told its not cost effective to treat his strain of tuberculosis, but if Id gotten that exact same strain of tuberculosis, I would have gotten care no problem.Feltman: Yeah, well, and I think most of our, our listeners would agree that people having access to health care and the right to treatment is important in its own right. But, of course, we were recently reminded that tuberculosis is still a problem in the U.S. ...Green: Absolutely.Feltman: As well. Were you surprised at all to have that news come out so adjacent to this book?Green: No, I was not surprised that there was a TB outbreak in Kansas. Its a little weird to be promoting a book in the context [laughs] of a TB outbreak in the U.S. ...Feltman: Sure.Green: But it wasnt totally unexpected to me. We have about 10,000 cases of active TB every year in the United States. A few hundred people in the U.S. die every year of TB.Its a disease thats everywhere. I mean, this is an airborne disease; anyone can get tuberculosis. Youre much less likely to become sick if youre well-nourished and you, you dont have other health problems, but anybody can get TB. And so TB anywhere is a threat to humans everywhere. And thats one of the messages I really wanna try to hammer home in this book and also in conversations with folks like you.Feltman: Thank you so much for coming on. This has been a great chat, and Im sure our listeners and viewers will really enjoy Everything Is Tuberculosis.Green: Thank you. I really appreciate the chance to be with you.Feltman: Thats all for todays episode. Dont forget to check out Everything Is Tuberculosis wherever you get your books. Science Quickly is produced by me, Rachel Feltman, along with Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Naeem Amarsy and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was edited by Alex Sugiura. Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck fact-check our show. Our theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Subscribe to Scientific American for more up-to-date and in-depth science news.For Scientific American, Im Rachel Feltman. See you next time!