How to Track Down Your Vaccine History
There are ways to figure out what you’ve been vaccinated for, even if you have no hope of finding the original records.
E. Bryant Crutchfield, 85, Dies; Gave the World the Trapper Keeper
“When I first went to work, all school products were drab and boring,” Mr. Crutchfield said in the Mental Floss interview. Trapper Keepers, he added, were “more functional and more attractive, with oodles of choices — therefore fun to have. And I had a lot of fun making them fun!” Ernest Bryant Crutchfield, known to…
Psilocybin Therapy Sharply Reduces Excessive Drinking, Small Study Shows
A small study on the therapeutic effects of using psychedelics to treat alcohol use disorder found that just two doses of psilocybin magic mushrooms paired with psychotherapy led to an 83 percent decline in heavy drinking among the participants. Those given a placebo reduced their alcohol intake by 51 percent. By the end of the…
Bright Lights, Big City, Niche Fame
“I think she is self-aware about what she can do and what she doesn’t want to do,” Mr. Abdalla said. “She’s also pretty good at throwing a party. That’s a pretty big part of this job. She can get people to show up.” “It took me two years to embrace being a publicist,” Ms. Phillips…
Chicken Recipes Our Readers Love
A chicken dinner shouldn’t be a gamble; it should leave you feeling like a winner, winner. Whether you prefer your chicken bone-in or bone-out, the meat white or dark, the pieces cooked low and slow or fired hot and high on a grill, there’s a New York Times Cooking recipe out there for you. Our…
Soups and Stews for Summer
I can’t stop thinking about Yewande Komolafe’s delicious version of asaro. She published her recipe for the southern Nigerian dish a couple of years ago, after a trip to Lagos, and its perfect for when you’re craving something with a bit of warmth and substance. Her version is summery — light, brothy and deeply satisfying…
Will Your Dog Get Dementia? A Large New Study Offers Clues.
Around the time Dante turned 8, he started to seem a little off. The 70-pound Bernese mountain dog would pace his family’s home in Interlaken, N.Y., like a caged bear. Then he might stand stock still, staring trance-like at the pedals of the family’s organ. Or at a corner of a room. In the middle…
What to See, Eat and Do in Boston
There’s a new face welcoming visitors to Boston. It belongs to a 3-year-old in Velcro sneakers, crouching by a boombox and haloed in gold. She’s the artist Rob Gibbs’s daughter, who stares unflinchingly from a soaring 70-foot mural across from South Station, the city’s biggest train terminal. Mr. Gibbs — who paints under the name…
On Minorca, a Remote Farmhouse Revived as an Upscale Estate
Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Each week, we share things we’re eating, wearing, listening to or coveting now. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every Wednesday. And you can always reach us at tlist@nytimes.com. Visit This A Minorcan Villa Surrounded by Forest By Chris…
Making the Rounds on Nashville’s Singer-Songwriter Circuit
On a recent Sunday night in a Holiday Inn lounge on the fringe of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Paul Jefferson, a local songwriter with spiky hair and skinny jeans, took the stage to sing a couple of his better-known tunes, popularized in recordings by Keith Urban and Aaron Tippin. Between “You’re Not My God” and…