Yousra Attia Just got a flurry of wedding invites in the mail? Same. With a busy social calendar comes great responsibility, and by that, I mean being the best-dressed guest at the function. Shopping for weddings can be stressful, we get it. Whether you’re stuck on figuring out the dress code, triple-checking that there’s no…
After 25 years of owning a charming saltbox house in the woods of Wainscott, a hamlet in the town of East Hampton, N.Y., Joe Tringali was ready for a change — a dramatic one. “He wanted to live in a glass box,” said his architect, Reid Balthaser. Mr. Tringali, now 66, bought the three-bedroom, two-bathroom…
Even after the beloved teen drama series “Gossip Girl” ended in 2012, viewers couldn’t stop talking about the fashion. And now the show is back, with a Gen Z update. The reboot, which had its premiere on July 8 on HBO Max, takes place in the same world of wealthy Upper East Side elite as…
But even in states where cannabis has been legal for years, the rules on its consumption are still evolving. Alaska voters ushered in legal recreational marijuana use in 2014. Still, on the Alaska cruises restarting this summer, passengers can buy cannabis at ports of call but can’t bring it back to the ship because they…
It’s normal to wake up a few times during the night, as the brain cycles through various stages of deeper and lighter sleep. Older people also often have to get out of bed to use the bathroom one or two times during the night. Waking up at night is usually harmless. Most people have no…
I retired as a professor of education from a small college. One of my former colleagues in the department had only a master’s, for which the department was criticized by an accreditation agency. She applied to a Ph.D. program a few years ago but was not accepted and left the college. She is now working…
Compared with heterosexual smokers, menthol cigarette smoking is higher among lesbian, gay and bisexual cigarette smokers, according to a Rutgers-led study, especially among bisexual and lesbian/gay female cigarette smokers. The study, published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research, examined national data from 2015 to 2019 of individuals ages 18 years and older by sex…
IMAGE: An unconstrained rat attempts to free a trapped rat as part of an experiment testing whether rats act on their empathy for other rats. view more Credit: Photo courtesy of Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal A decade after scientists discovered that lab rats will rescue a fellow rat in distress, but not a rat they consider an…
IMAGE: Dedicated to the diseases and conditions that hold greater risk for or are more prevalent among women, as well as diseases that present differently in women view more Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 13, 2021–Males with COVID-19 had significantly higher rates of hospitalization and of transfer to the intensive care…
In a new study of adults from the general population who were infected with COVID-19 in 2020, more than a quarter report not having fully recovered after six to eight months. Those findings are described this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Milo Puhan and colleagues at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. While…