Good morning. Some store-bought puff pastry, goat cheese, crème fraîche, asparagus, fresh tarragon, plenty of Parmesan and a sprinkle of red-pepper flakes — you don’t need much more than that and an hour to make Melissa Clark’s fantastic springtime tart (above). And I hope you will make it, tonight or sometime soon. But I also…
What young people find when they go looking for fitness information can be highly problematic. They are likely to come across harmful “thinspiration” and “fitspiration” posts celebrating slim or sculpted bodies, or even sites that encourage eating disordered behavior. Worse, algorithms record online search information and are “deliberately designed to feed harmful weight loss content…
Here’s what you need to know: People dining outdoors at a restaurant in Manhattan in July. New Yorkers will soon be able to drink at bars and restaurants without the requirement of ordering food.Credit…Karsten Moran for The New York Times The leaders of the New York State Legislature said Tuesday they would move on the…
Nathalie Cadet-James started Luxe Fete, an event planning and design studio, in 2009. Like many others in the industry, the pandemic forced her to shift her focus from over-the-top luxury weddings to producing shippable celebration boxes for intimate gatherings. “When the pandemic hit, weddings stopped,” said Ms. Cadet-James, 44, who lives in Miami with her…
So, for the new study, which was published in March in the Journal of Applied Physiology, scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and other institutions first gathered a large group of mice. Some of the animals, male and female, were allowed to gorge on a high-fat, high-calorie diet, inducing obesity and metabolic…
1. He spent nearly a half-century in rehearsals. If you want to assess Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s first 100 days in office, it helps to wind back nearly 18,000 days to the beginning. When President Biden was first elected to the United States Senate, in Stone Age 1972, the country was still mired in Vietnam;…
On April 28, when President Joseph R. Biden delivers his address to the joint session of Congress, with Vice President Kamala Harris at his shoulder and Jill Biden and Douglas Emhoff watching from the balcony, it will mark the first high-profile public appearance of the first and second families since the inauguration. President Biden, of…
Last year, the V.A. started “a new social prescription program,” called Compassionate Contact Corps. Originally a home visitation program, it was restarted as a teleservice for veterans experiencing loneliness and social isolation when the pandemic hit. About 1,000 veterans are participating in the program, which involves phone or video calls with trained volunteers and requires…
At Brooklyn Tech, I sold T-shirts in the cafeteria. I made up a label called Brick Oven T-shirts, or BOTS. Brooklyn Tech was, like, a super intense place but it really made me. There’s, like, 5,000 students, and if you’re not an outgoing, hungry kid, you get lost. I have many friends that crushed it…
Constantina Theofanopoulou wanted to study oxytocin. Her graduate work had focused on how the hormone influences human speech development, and now she was preparing to use those findings to investigate how songbirds learn to sing. The problem was that birds do not have oxytocin. Or so she was told. “Everywhere that I looked in the…