Soon after, my partner and I started trying to have a baby. After seven tedious months, I got pregnant, only to have a first trimester miscarriage over Thanksgiving in 2020. The loss was emotionally and physically painful even with a good support system to lean on. But looking back, the part that stands out to…
Morton Mower, an entrepreneurial cardiologist who helped invent an implantable defibrillator that has saved many lives by returning potentially fatal irregular heart rhythms to normal with an electrical jolt, died on April 25 in Denver. He was 89. His son, Mark, said the cause was cancer. Dr. Mower and Dr. Michel Mirowski, a colleague at…
En los dos primeros meses leí los 15 libros que llevé a Rusia en mi maleta y habría saboreado cada página si hubiera sabido que apenas había libros en inglés y que el acceso a internet en nuestro edificio era esporádico. Al principio me obligaba a salir de la cama cada mañana para moverme por…
Since last summer, a start-up in beta mode has been soliciting volunteers to take part in 55-minute sessions called “gathers,” where strangers discuss their deepest hopes and fears. The fledgling company, Peoplehood, is led by the entrepreneurs Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice, who combined sweat and spirituality in their last venture, the high-end fitness chain…
Late last month, during the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory, Rebecca Romney withdrew a copy of “Howl, Kaddish, and Other Poems,” by Allen Ginsberg from her booth’s display case. She did so not to recite from its pages but to show off the writing in the margins. Amy Winehouse…
Sales in the space tourism space, Mr. Curran acknowledges, “are reasonably difficult to make,” and mostly come from peer-to-peer networking. “You can imagine that people who spend $450,000 to go to space probably operate in circles that are not the same as yours and mine,” he said. Some of Mr. Curran’s most popular offerings include…
Social circles were shrinking even before the pandemic. Here’s what the science says about the number of close friendships we should have.
Mattea Roach, the 23-year-old “Jeopardy!” champion, blew past competitor after competitor. Some of the games were nail-biters: In one, she defeated her opponent by just a dollar. But the LSAT tutor, a 2020 graduate of the University of Toronto, ended her streak on Friday, winning 23 straight games and earning $560,983 (plus a $2000 consolation…
IUDs Women’s health experts consider intrauterine devices, or IUDs, to be among the most effective forms of birth control, in part because people using them don’t need to remember to take or apply them, like a pill or a patch. A doctor inserts one of the T-shaped devices into the uterus, a procedure that typically…
When “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute show, opened last September as the world first adjusted to the idea of living with Covid-19, it signaled a fresh start by reframing the dialogue around homegrown design. Now its more sprawling, multi-layered successor, “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” takes…