Next time you head to the market to restock your canned fish, here’s something to consider: Throw some salmon into your cart along with all that tuna. According to Paul Greenberg, the expert on ocean and environmental issues who wrote “American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood,” canned salmon is better than tuna, for…
For new mothers, breastfeeding, even for a few months, is associated with a significant decrease in the risk for ovarian cancer years down the road, a review of studies has found. The pooled analysis, in JAMA Oncology, included 13 studies with 9,973 ovarian cancer cases and 14,843 controls. After adjustment for age, race, oral contraceptive…
Paris has its garrets; London, its bedsits. In New York, it’s the studio apartment — and its grittier cousin, the tenement railroad flat — that has sheltered generations of strivers and makers. Now that New Yorkers are sheltering in place, studio dwellers would seem to be particularly challenged. But many say the years in their…
In many parts of the world, nearly two out of three people wear corrective eyewear. And lately, many of us have the same complaint: Wearing a mask makes our glasses fog. When we asked readers to send their questions about coronavirus, one of the most commonly asked questions was about how to solve the fogging…
Good morning. I’m lucky to have a grill out back, and it’s been put to good use of late: baby back ribs and beer-can chicken and hot slaw and glazed carrots and grilled peaches straight from the jar. Now it’s back to the uncomfortable chair and the rickety desk, my makeshift office a step from…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageShopkeepers in Leipzig, Germany, preparing on Monday to open an antique prints store for the first time since March.Credit…Sean Gallup/Getty Images Germany cautiously restarts its economy, allowing small shops to open. Across Germany, smaller stores were allowed to open their doors for the first time in nearly a month…
If you’re used to hitting the gym or running in an urban park or on city sidewalks, being ordered to stay at home has required a radical rethinking of your workout. Fortunately, even before the pandemic hit, at-home exercise was gaining steam, thanks to gear-makers like Peloton and Mirror; online instruction from companies like Daily…
When you work from home, digital accessories, notebooks and office supplies have a way of multiplying and migrating into other rooms, creating a mess. That’s where a rolling storage cart can help. With shelves, drawers or baskets to contain the clutter — and casters that allow it to move between rooms — a cart can…
The revelation of the crisis in retail caused by the coronavirus and the global response has coincided with the close of the first round of applications for A Common Thread, American fashion’s self-rescue plan. The initiative was created less than a month ago to help the independent designers, stores and contractors that make up the…
Travel and travel planning are being disrupted by the worldwide spread of the coronavirus. For the latest updates, read The New York Times’s Covid-19 coverage here. The hotelier Phil Hospod has spent the last two years building The Wayfinder, a boutique hotel in Newport, R.I. And despite the pandemic, he is still planning to open…