Welcome. Yesterday I received a parcel in the mail containing a four-pound bag of deluxe birdseed. No receipt, no note, a plain brown box containing only a sack of sunflower-and-safflower mix. I thought it must have originated with my friend Kate Wong, a science writer who’s recently taken up bird-watching. I thrill to her Instagram,…
Tatras We all cheer the start of “sweater weather,” but when it’s time to break out the coziest members of your wardrobe, it’s easy to underestimate how much thought goes into keeping both winter blues and style woes at bay. Too much emphasis on function, and you could end up with a dull utilitarian lineup.…
The Food and Drug Administration will hold a hearing this week to determine whether to grant emergency authorization to a coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. The vaccine, which the companies claim is 95 percent effective, is one of two that could be ready for injections in the United States before the end of…
Twitch, the livestreaming platform popular among video game players, unveiled new guidelines on Wednesday aimed at cracking down on hateful conduct and sexual harassment on its site. The site, which is owned by Amazon, said it had broadened its definition of sexual harassment and separated such violations into a new category for the first time…
Not long before Christmas, as the pandemic was taking a devastating toll in rural Iowa, Rebecca Tinti was visiting some neighbors who had fallen ill. At the family’s farm, she found seven of them, including a newborn baby, bedridden with sickness, leaving a 6-year-old girl to take care of everyone else. Ms. Tinti stepped in…
There is general agreement on very little in this world, save, perhaps, for one thing: This year has been a mess, and the next one cannot come fast enough. So it should be a surprise to no one that the prognosticators at Pantone — those trend forecasters who scour the globe for months noting developments…
And Sarah DiGregorio ginned up an amazing lentil soup with smoked sausage and apples. That’s an easy and fantastic midweek feed. You might, however, prefer Julia Moskin’s recipe for pasta with bacon, cheese, lemon and pine nuts. Or, you know what? Sometimes life calls for baked chicken tenders and a soapy police drama on your…
All the Things We Have Tried Before Over the Centuries For ages, posters on forums like Reddit have used “/s” at the end of a post to indicate sarcasm. But the history of tone indication is much older. In her book “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation,” the grammar historian Lynne…
Jose Perez/Bauer-GriffinGetty Images From decadent Marchesa dresses to Versace power suits, Selena Gomez can wear it all, flawlessly. Flip through the singer’s every best outfit and, truly, “Look at Her Now.” View Gallery 182 Photos 1 of 182 December 7, 2020 Filming her new Hulu TV series, Only Murders in the Building, in New York…
The need for clarity on the safety and efficacy of China’s vaccines has taken on more urgency after Sinopharm revealed it had already vaccinated roughly a million people even before the completion of clinical trials. The campaign has alarmed overseas scientists who say it exposes people to undue risks. Chinese officials have repeatedly assured the…