My usual Super Bowl strategy is to gather some friends at game time, do an end-run around the sporty crowds and head straight to that one trendy, no-reservation restaurant that’s impossible to get into any other day of the year. The years when I do attend a Super Bowl party, I plant myself in front…
The doctor is in. So is the yogi. A sharp shift in health care is taking place as more than one-third of American adults now supplement or substitute mainstream medical care with acupuncture, meditation, yoga and other therapies long considered alternative. In 2022, 37 percent of adult pain patients used nontraditional medical care, a marked…
You don’t need a rice cooker to make incredible rice, and you don’t need to be an expert chef to yield a pot of fluffy grains. In the second installment of her YouTube series, Cooking 101, the chef and cookbook author Sohla El-Waylly will teach you how to make it easily and deliciously, then repurpose…
Taylor Swift often encourages her fans to devise fanciful theories about her music, but this week a very different type of wild speculation sprung up around her: political conspiracy theories being peddled by Fox News, Trump surrogates and the extended MAGA universe. The theories range widely, but include outlandish claims that Ms. Swift is secretly…
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Frozen hair is a nuisance in most places, but at the Eclipse Nordic Hot Springs in Whitehorse, Yukon, it’s a higher calling. Every winter, hundreds of people try to freeze their hair into a troll-doll-like coif for a chance to win cash prizes of 2,000 Canadian dollars, or nearly $1,500. And just in case that…
The News In California, days that experienced both extreme heat and wildfire smoke at the same time have seen disproportionate numbers of hospitalizations for heart and lung ailments, a new study found. The research highlights the public health dangers of distinct climate threats that can have a compound effect when they occur simultaneously. The research,…
Sholto David, 32, has a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology from Newcastle University in England. He is also developing an expertise in spotting errors in scientific papers. Most recently, and notably, he discovered flawed or manipulated data in studies conducted by top executives at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The institute said that it…
Talk to people who have tried to get one of the wildly popular weight-loss drugs, like Wegovy, and they’ll probably have a story about the hoops they had to jump through to get their medication — if they could get it at all. Emily Weaver, a nurse practitioner in Cary, N.C., said she told her…
Good morning. I found a short little piece of skirt steak at the market and it cost me $10 to take it home. I salted it hard and seared it in a cast-iron pan, and then finished it off the heat with a couple of tablespoons of cold butter, tilting the pan so it foamed…