Here’s what you need to know: ImageShane Reilly, an artist in Austin, Texas, displayed flags in his front yard, each representing a Texan who died of the coronavirus. The state experienced a new high in cases on Tuesday.Credit…Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times With a resurgence across the South and West, the U.S. hits…
Cooking oil is essential to countless recipes. Stir-fries, baked goods, bacon, and french fries, just to name a few. But what happens if when all is said and done (and eaten), and you have a lot of oil or grease leftover? There is definitely a right way and a wrong way to dispose of these…
Daniel J. Hinkley grew up in Michigan, a place with serious Zone 4 winters and a repetitive palette of two white-flowered varieties of hydrangeas. In many front yards, you could see Hydrangea paniculata Grandiflora, known as the peegee hydrangea and often trained like a small tree, or a wider-than-high mound of Hydrangea arborescens Annabelle, with…
While adults often have a lot to teach young people about the world and how it works, those of us raising adolescents should not assume that we are the resident experts on racism. In many cases young people are not only opposed to racism, but they have embraced the call to work actively against it.…
I promised myself that I’d read “War and Peace” during this long period of confinement. But I didn’t. Just as I didn’t read it the last time I promised myself that I would: when I was pregnant and imagined that, as with the Bach suites I listened to, our son would be born knowing its…
The early-morning light wakened the middle-aged man early on a Saturday morning in 2003. He felt his 51-year-old wife move behind him and turned to see her whole body jerking erratically. He was a physician, a psychiatrist, and knew immediately that she was having a seizure. He grabbed his phone and dialed 911. His healthy,…
A compound produced in the gut when we eat red meat damages our arteries and may play a key role in boosting risk of heart disease as we get older, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research. The study, published this month in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension, also suggests that people may…
Leaving hospital can be a confusing and sometimes risky time for patients who take medication, with an estimated 44% experiencing medicine-related problems once they get home. New research from the University of Bath suggests the most helpful and timely medicine-related support is provided by hospital pharmacists, yet few patients are aware that they can turn…
Women who experience high blood pressure during pregnancy are more likely to develop heart disease and heart failure in later life, according to an international team of researchers. Between 1-6% of all pregnancies in Western countries are affected by high blood pressure, which usually returns to normal after giving birth. This condition is known as…
A new thermoplastic biomaterial, which is tough and strong but also easy to process and shape has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham. A type of nylon, the material’s shape memory properties enable it to be stretched and moulded but able to reform into its original shape when heated. This makes it…