Sometimes my aunts and uncles would take the constant communication a little too far, sending pictures of their bruised legs (from bumping into tables) or bloody noses (from the dry heat), positioning their wounds in perfect lighting. Other times I would check my messages in the morning to find a picture of spilled juice with…
Eric Kugler likes to say he met Judge Dean Hansell through Ed Sullivan and Ingrid Bergman. What actually brought them together in February 2011, though, was GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Now on the Superior Court of California, Judge Hansell, 70, had helped to start the alliance’s Los Angeles chapter in 1986.…
Alexandra Scott Goodman was perusing Tinder in September 2017 when the three-word bio of Christopher Nicholas Masullo, who went by his nickname Chris on the dating app, caught her eye. “Perpetually in awe,” it read. Ms. Goodman, who goes by the nickname Zan, was struck by its brevity. Her bio on the dating app also…
Though he admitted he was not ready for a serious relationship when the two reconnected, as they continued to see each other over the following months, Mr. Singley, a graduate of Bradley University who was born in Bettendorf, Iowa, and raised in Orion, Ill., said he became “crazy about Julie.” By October 2019, when Ms.…
Susan Hampton Alavi and Evan Michael Schaeffer dated in fits and starts for almost a decade before settling into a steady relationship, much of which was long distance. The two, both 25, met in 2010 on their first day as freshman at William G. Enloe High School in Raleigh, N.C., where a mutual friend introduced…
A science-based guide for fellow germaphobes.
Sheldon Krimsky, a leading scholar of environmental ethics who explored issues at the nexus of science, ethics and biotechnology, and who warned of the perils of private companies underwriting and influencing academic research, died on April 23 in Cambridge, Mass. He was 80. His family said that he was at a hospital for tests when…
Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
For a respiratory disease, Covid-19 causes some peculiar symptoms. It can diminish the senses of smell and taste, leave patients with discolored “Covid toes,” or even cause a swollen, bumpy “Covid tongue.” Now scientists are examining a possible link to an altogether unexpected consequence of Covid: erectile dysfunction. A connection has been reported in hundreds…
