It’s how we end up with years of superhero movies (until superhero movies stop performing), with unending book series about vampires and faeries and their love affairs with mortal women, with a whole swath of designers hired out of streetwear lines — until the market gets saturated or the copy of the copy of the…
Once their scalpels reach the edge of a brain tumor, surgeons are faced with an agonizing decision: cut away some healthy brain tissue to ensure the entire tumor is removed, or give the healthy tissue a wide berth and risk leaving some of the menacing cells behind. Now scientists in the Netherlands report using artificial…
The soothing rhythms of cooking — the chopping and peeling, the sautéing and simmering — are part of why so many of us take to the kitchen in times of turmoil and stress. Maybe we can’t control the world at large, but we can lift our little part of it by nurturing ourselves and loved…
On the tracks of a railway depot in northern France, a steam locomotive puffs out smoke as if it just took a drag. An engineer and two apprentices stand inside its teal-colored cab wearing dark clothing and gloves. It’s hard to make out their faces under the glare of the midmorning sun. They’ve been warming…
I am a woman in perimenopause. I struggle with brain fog, among other symptoms. In conversation, I sometimes explain what’s going on while it’s happening: “Ugh, I am struggling to remember the right word. It’s one of the symptoms of my perimenopause.” Verbalizing my experience helps me to relax and stay open during the interaction.…
Grab your wallets and head to Amazon, because amongst the massive discounts on skincare and hair tools (including the Dyson flat iron, no biggie), fashion brand JW PEI has marked down the prices on so many purses–including the viral Gabbi Bag, which has been spotted on the arms of A-listers like Hailey Bieber, EmRata, and…
Susan Gelles was a lawyer in her 30s who was too busy to find love. But after finally admitting that she was lonely, Susan did something that went against all her best instincts: she started attending singles mixers. On this episode of the Modern Love podcast, Susan shares her disastrous mismatches, awkward flirtations, and the…
The thing I find so interesting, though, as we talk ourselves out of matzo balls or mulligatawny, is that soup is so often the very thing we’re most likely to love and cook for ourselves at home. How to square this: that the food we get the most comfort from and feel most relaxed and…
On a recent trip to the Caribbean island of Antigua, Melissa Middlestadt, a writer from the Toronto area, was charged a $12-a-night resort fee by the all-inclusive Jolly Beach. She was told it covered the use of nonmotorized water-sports equipment and Wi-Fi. “We challenged them to remove it, but they wouldn’t, which was a bummer…
By now, the story of Britney Spears’s conservatorship and its eventual unraveling is well known: For years, Ms. Spears was trapped in a legal situation in which most of the money she earned went to her father, who controlled not only her finances, but things like her medication, her performance schedule and more. Ms. Spears’s…