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I write about food and other stuff for @theatlantic and my email address is ecushing@theatlantic.com 🌞
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The Allure of the Anti-Screen-Time Toy

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By Ellen Cushing 
| The Atlantic
Bondu is a stuffed dinosaur that speaks 27 languages. It—or, more precisely, the AI chatbot embedded inside it—can also play games, help with homework, and patiently answer a child’s questions, even the really inane ones. Its “bedtime mode” includes breathing exercises and stories. Bondu, which costs $300 and comes in four colors, is marketed as a playmate, a confidant, a teacher, a quasi-caregiver.
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The Sporting Event Where Doping Was the Star

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By Ellen Cushing 
| The Atlantic
In person, they did not seem quite real. Gathered on a blue carpet under bright lights, inside a $50 million Las Vegas venue that had been built just for them, the athletes of the Enhanced Games—colloquially known as the “doping Olympics”—looked like action figures. When they stood next to other people, the effect was different but no less uncanny; it was as if they’d been Photoshopped, blown up 25 percent compared with the rest of their species.
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The Protein Shortage Is Coming

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By Ellen Cushing 
| The Atlantic
In retrospect, maybe the protein Pop-Tarts were a bit much. Americans, broadly speaking, are in a state of protein mania. We are eating it at breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, and just about anytime in between. We like it in chips, candy, soda, water. We like protein so much, in fact, that we’ve been eating it all up. Whey-protein prices are surging, and a shortage may be imminent.
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