A man who has fathered between 550 and 600 children over the past 16 years is not allowed to donate any more sperm to prospective parents, a court in the Netherlands ruled on Friday. According to The Hague District Court, the man lied about the number of children he had already fathered, the number of…
While I was undergoing treatment to eradicate a tumor, listening to songs from the band’s long career became its own vital form of medicine.
Can’t find time to exercise on weekdays? Here are five ways to get more out of a Saturday and Sunday routine.
Good morning. I’ve been on the road this week, eating in hotels and airport lounges, dreaming of live fires and barbecue pits, imagining myself cooking clams, baking bread, filleting tuna. All I want to do this weekend is cook: spiced lamb skewers with lemony onions (above); grilled asparagus with caper salsa; a sweet and spicy…
We’ll be the first to admit there’s something undeniably special about natural diamonds (after all, they truly are a girl’s best friend). But if you’re looking to get comparable sparkle out of your jewelry while saving a good chunk of money, you may want to go the lab grown diamond route. Lab grown diamonds, which…
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but not in the world of start-ups. There was drama this week in the olive oil business — and it unfolded on LinkedIn, the online haven of start-up feuds, oversharing and self-mythologizing odes to #founder culture. An angry post by the olive oil entrepreneur Andrew Benin caused…
Making It Work is a series is about small-business owners striving to endure hard times. Hakki Akdeniz, the founder of the Champion Pizza chain in New York City, speaks freely about his past. When he first moved to the United States from Canada in 2001, he was homeless, sleeping in subway cars and at Grand…
When King Charles III is crowned on May 6, the world will witness, for the first time since his mother’s coronation in 1953, a ceremony that packs more than 1,000 years of British pomp and pageantry into a single day. But for some people, one day might not be enough. Britain teems with castles that…
At Nura, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, it’s two fresh rounds of butter-drenched naan, nestling a pair of warm Parker House rolls. At Dauphine’s, in Washington, D.C., it’s fat slices of sweet potato brioche with buttermilk biscuits and a demi-baguette. Bird Dog, in Palo Alto, Calif., serves everything-togarashi challah — a Jewish-Japanese hybrid — and at Audrey,…
Speaking two languages provides the enviable ability to make friends in unusual places. A new study suggests that bilingualism may also come with another benefit: improved memory in later life. Studying hundreds of older patients, researchers in Germany found that those who reported using two languages daily from a young age scored higher on tests…