Image We spend a lot of our days chatting with each other about things we see online, trying to make sense of it all. This week in the Styles newsletter, Wait …, Amanda Hess, a critic-at-large, and Jenna Wortham, a staff writer for the Magazine and a host of the podcast “Still Processing,” discuss the…
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In 2012, I started working from home full time. Within just a few months, I threw my back out from sitting all day at a home office thrown together from what I had on hand. That event kicked off a quest to find office equipment that would be a bit easier on my spine. I…
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Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher After three years of marriage, David Finch had become increasingly withdrawn, dismissive and preoccupied. Tearful, his wife told him: “I feel like I’ve lost you.” Turns out, Mr. Finch’s wife had not lost him. Rather, she…
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Here’s what you need to know: Video transcript Back transcript ‘Please Don’t Politicize This Virus,’ W.H.O. Head Tells World Leaders The World Health Organization’s director general rebuked officials around the world, following President Trump’s comments attacking the W.H.O. and China. The focus of all political parties should be to save their people. Please don’t politicize…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageA refrigerated trailer serving as a temporary morgue at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn on Tuesday.Credit…Demetrius Freeman for The New York Times In New York, which saw a record number of deaths, “the bad news is actually terrible.” New York, the hardest hit state in America, reported its…
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In recent years, the U.S. government has considered removing protections for the Canada lynx, which has been listed as a threatened species. But a recent study in Washington State shows the medium-size wild cat continues to be very much at risk in the Northwest. The largest-scale survey of lynx in the state relied on 650…
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Even before the pandemic, I spent a good portion of my time working from home, which means I’m well practiced in the art of snacking more or less continuously from midafternoon until dinnertime. (Being so close to the kitchen naturally makes one very hungry.) On a good week, I’ll make a healthful, protein-packed dip for…
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When I started cooking, I would spend hours during the week thinking about what I wanted to make over the weekend, and then I would spend the weekend making it. Every Saturday I shopped along a stretch of Ninth Avenue around the Port Authority Bus Terminal, in Manhattan. In those years, it wasn’t the best…
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President Trump unleashed a tirade against the World Health Organization on Tuesday, accusing it of acting too slowly to sound the alarm about the coronavirus. It was not the first time in this pandemic that the global health body has faced such criticism. Government officials, health experts and analysts have in recent weeks raised concerns…
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Though public health officials are urging medical practices to use virtual patient visits to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, a surprising number of dermatology offices, many of them owned by private equity investment firms, remain open for in-person skin checks and other nonurgent services. Many dermatologists have closed their offices, instead examining rashes…
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