In Wednesday's New York Times, Nick Bilton, a Styles columnist who writes about technology as you might expect a Styles columnist to, makes a foray into science journalism, questioning if "wearable tech" could be harmful to our bodies—could wearable computers, like the AppleWatch (onsaleApril24atyournearestAppleStore) be as dangerous to us...as cigarettes?

The uplifting story of Times writer Nick Bilton, who rose from obscurity as a technology reporter to a prominent position as the paper's chief Pens and Twitter Arguments correspondent, gained a new chapter today with news that Bilton would write an "investigative book about the black market website Silk Road," and that the book has already been optioned by 20th Century Fox.