Montblanc creative director Marco Tomasetta recently received a note for his birthday. It wasn’t sent on WhatsApp or via Instagram DM—the handwritten card was delivered in the mail. He locked it in a vault for safekeeping. “A letter is the most precious thing,” Tomasetta tells ELLE through a translator. “I would love to have a…
Prairie voles are stocky rodents and Olympian tunnellers that surface in grassy areas to feast on grass, roots and seeds with their chisel-shaped teeth, sprouting migraines in farmers and gardeners. But to Larry Young, they were the secret to understanding romance and love. Professor Young, a neuroscientist at Emory University in Atlanta, used prairie voles…
Sometimes, in the rush and mundanity of life, it can be easy to forget that we live in one of the world’s cultural capitals. Last month, I went to the Museum of the City of New York for the first time, and visited the Neue Gallerie afterward to check out the “Klimt Landscapes” show. I…
Robert B. Oxnam, an eminent China scholar who learned through psychotherapy that his years of erratic behavior could be explained by the torment of having multiple personalities, died on April 18 at his home in Greenport, N.Y., on the North Fork of Long Island. He was 81. His wife, Vishakha Desai, said the cause was…
Many people experience the morning altitude headache, in which “your skull feels too small for the pulse that’s coming,” said Steve House, the founder of Uphill Athlete, a company that offers high-altitude endurance coaching. It is also common to struggle with sleep at high altitudes. This occurs partly because the part of your nervous system…
“What’s Hate Reads?” a patron at The River, a bar on Bayard Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown, asked early on Wednesday evening. She and a friend had no idea they had wandered into the beginning of a party. It was perhaps the perfect question to kick off the evening’s event: a reading to celebrate the limited…
Tucked into a brightly lit hotel bar recently, I struck up a conversation with a lively tourist on a mission: She needed to find the best steak au poivre in the city, and she needed to find it stat. The thought of that earthy sauce has only occasionally withdrawn from my mind since. But the…
Nearly 33 million Americans have osteoarthritis. Experts explain how it affects the body, and why it’s so hard to diagnose.
Is a sandwich dinner? I don’t mean to open the floodgates of food-based existential inquiry, but it’s something I’ve wondered in my more navel-gazy moments. I’m always down for a grilled cheese to go with my tomato soup, or a fried egg on toast to nestle next to a salad, but those are more accompaniments…
Scientists observed a wild male orangutan repeatedly rubbing chewed-up leaves of a medicinal plant on a facial wound in a forest reserve in Indonesia. It was the first known observation of a wild animal using a plant to treat a wound, and adds to evidence that humans are not alone in using plants for medicinal…