As winter set in this January, Sarah Kieffer recalled how it snowed for eight months last year in her hometown, Minneapolis. For weeks on end, the temperature dipped below minus 20. Surrounded by grayness, she baked blueberry muffins for the cheer of their bright pops of blue. “It’s like when the hobbits got to Mordor,…
New research suggests a daily vitamin can improve cognition. But that doesn’t mean everyone should take one.
Not every foot requires a wider toe box. “Someone who has any kind of deformity in the forefoot (the widest part of the foot) would need a shoe with a wide toe box to avoid pain and crowding in the toes,” Dr. Lobkova says. This could include bunions, arthritis in the big toe joint, hammertoes,…
Good morning. I made dinner for 50 last weekend, a giant feast of chicken bog, braised kale and rice, with cornbread and Henley Tuthill’s exceptional brown-butter Rice Krispies treats for dessert. I flew solo in the kitchen all day to bring it to fruition, doing the prep-cook shuffle: dicing vegetables, chicken and kielbasa, stirring roux,…
Fashion criticism, if you’re privileged enough to do it, is a pretty cool practice. It brings you into constant contact with creativity and beauty. It allows you to think and write about the ways that what humans choose to put on their bodies affect almost everything about how we move through social and cultural space.…
For decades, Uganda’s campaign against H.I.V. was exemplary, slashing the country’s death rate by nearly 90 percent from 1990 to 2019. Now a sweeping law enacted last year, the Anti-Homosexuality Act, threatens to renew the epidemic as L.G.B.T.Q. citizens are denied, or are too afraid to seek out, necessary medical care. The law criminalizes consensual…
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This is Day 5 of Well’s Mediterranean Diet Week. Start at the beginning here. The Mediterranean diet isn’t like other diets. To begin with, it’s more of a style of eating than a strict regimen. And adopting it doesn’t involve many of the sacrifices people associate with healthy eating. Compared with other wholesome diets, for…
In the chilly dusk on a recent Saturday, nine people were creeping through the California hills. Their faces were painted in shades of green, yellow, brown and black, so that they blended into their surroundings. Moving uphill through thickets of trees, they tried to be silent, as if not to draw the attention of some…
Susana Simonpietri, the creative director of Chango & Co., an interior design firm in Brooklyn, often electrifies social media by posting photos of children’s rooms. With their eye-catching colors, unexpected patterns and playful elements, it’s hard not to love the spaces she creates. “I enjoy designing them so much, because I feel like every time…