The real chicken mystery has nothing to do with whether the egg came first. Scientists would like to know when, where and how a bird of the jungle came together with human farmers to begin down the path that eventually led to the Popeyes chicken sandwich. The more bioarchaeologists and evolutionary biologists delve into the…
A federal advisory committee on Tuesday will vote on whether regulators should authorize a Covid-19 vaccine made by Novavax, an early beneficiary of the government’s Operation Warp Speed program. The experts to the Food and Drug Administration (whose meeting you can watch here) will base their recommendation on the company’s clinical trial data, which is…
He replied to an email saying she wanted only a friendship with a string of messages, demanding to know how she could be so certain and accusing her of spurning his love because she was immature and cowardly. Ms. Wesko responded less often and more tersely. But over the next few years, she started experiencing…
Jimmy Han, 41, a bar owner in Los Angeles, was at Coachella in April when he and four friends decided to do a “bump” in a pop-up seafood restaurant — though not the kind you may be picturing. After ordering a seafood platter, he opened a gold tin of Regiis Ova caviar, poured a spoonful…
In a phone interview on Monday, Ante, 31, who lives near Stuttgart, Germany, and works in I.T., said he and his fiancée, 26, were perplexed and saddened after his proposal was waylaid. “Disneyland stands for dreams,” he said. “Our moment was destroyed.” He said that he had been planning the proposal since Christmas, when his…
Siete expertos ofrecen consejos sobre cómo evaluar más de diez opciones de control de la natalidad, desde preservativos hasta la ligadura de trompas.
This article is part of our Design special report previewing 2022 Milan Design Week. Can high design reverse Murano’s decline? Could one transcendent lamp, or a single game-changing wine goblet, or a fruit bowl created on the Venetian island by one of today’s top designers restore the reputation of this glassmaking capital, whose legacy for…
This article is part of our Design special report previewing 2022 Milan Design Week. Success in the design business can depend more on image than on product. High-quality furniture and fabrics can set a company apart, but if they are sold with a good story, that is even better. So maybe it is not a…
This article is part of our Design special report previewing 2022 Milan Design Week. Combining features of Brutalist architecture with the transcendent experience of houses of worship, Divine Inspiration is a series of six new lighting collections by the British product and interior designer Lee Broom. On view through June 12 at Blindarte, a gallery…
Let me note, too, that the freight of words is affected by who’s speaking them. Patients — perhaps as a result of sepsis-associated delirium or certain neurological disorders — may not be in control of their speech; people who are subject to Tourette-syndrome-related coprolalia should not be denied medical treatment because their words make clinicians…