Mark Arnold had owned a few different homes in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, but none of them fulfilled a dream he had harbored since childhood. “I always wanted to build my own house,” he said. Mr. Arnold, 62, a critical-care nurse with a keen interest in architecture and design, relished the idea of building…
Over the last two decades, technology companies and policymakers warned of a “digital divide” in which poor children could fall behind their more affluent peers without equal access to technology. Today, with widespread internet access and smartphone ownership, the gap has narrowed sharply. But with less fanfare a different division has appeared: Across the country,…
Todd Mitchem kept struggling to have honest, productive conversations with his son. “He’s 15,” Mr. Mitchem, 52, said with a laugh. “Teenagers are so difficult to connect with.” Every time he tried to bring up a sensitive issue, his son would give vague answers or run away, preferring to avoid serious talks altogether. In the…
Keep it brief, do your homework … and maybe don’t share your own teenage pot stories.
After medical instruments called duodenoscopes sickened hundreds of patients in hospital outbreaks a few years ago, the Food and Drug Administration urged health care facilities to switch to models with disposable components less likely to carry bacteria from one patient to another. Now the agency says there are problems with those instruments, too. Duodenoscopes are…
Experts weigh in on the sounds we make when we bend over, stand up and sit down.
At the height of the pandemic, Ilson Leir Goncalves was winning a reputation around Montclair, N.J., as a restaurateur who refused to quit. In the spring of 2020, he sold his house and put the proceeds toward expanding his restaurant, Samba Montclair, so customers could sit farther apart. When everything in the restaurant was destroyed…
Years later, I still told the undergraduate students in my research methods class the story of my first date with Corey to help them remember the concept of regression to the mean — how something that is extreme on a first measurement will become less extreme, or regress to the mean, on a second measurement.…
Hannah Shea Sellinger often got on the mic during pep rallies at Byron Nelson High School in Trophy Club, Texas, with a nod to the girls’ varsity basketball team. “She made varsity freshman year,” said Basil Azim, part of the enthusiastic crowd, though he barely knew her. They are both now 24, and he came…
A heartfelt smile can be infectious, and for Anna Clare Spelman and Peter Prix, it commenced their love story. Ms. Spelman and Mr. Prix had been living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for less than a year when they joined a local volleyball club. During a game in May 2013, they spotted each other on opposite…