Hundreds of thousands of people want to know two things about Elsa Majimbo. Where did she get her “Matrix”-esque sunglasses? And what kind of chips is she eating? For the past four months, the 19-year-old Kenyan comedian has been wearing black shades and crunching on snacks while filming herself express pretend contempt about all those…
LOS ANGELES — The busiest time of the day for Vivian Jung is that blur between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., when the lunch orders just won’t stop. Paper boxes of craggy fried chicken. Baby octopus rice bowls. Spam musubi and grilled mandu and creamy seafood spaghetti. Hot samgyetang steaming up the lid, the chicken…
We’re all getting used to face masks, either wearing them or figuring out who we’re looking at. They can even trip up those of us who are experts in faces. “Actually, I just had an experience today,” said Marlene Behrmann, a cognitive neuroscientist at Carnegie Mellon University who has spent decades studying the science of…
It’s hard to find the charm in something new when every day can bring unpleasant surprises. So maybe tonight you’re craving something reliable, something that’s soothing to make and puts those overlooked, underappreciated ingredients hiding in the back of your cabinets to use. Maybe you’ll find a box with a final brick of graham crackers…
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with travel restrictions in place worldwide, we launched a new series — The World Through a Lens — in which photojournalists help transport you, virtually, to some of our planet’s most beautiful and intriguing places. This week, Marcus Westberg shares a collection of images from Malawi. When I…
I am not big on preserving. In fact, I’m not big on spending a lot of time on anything in the kitchen that doesn’t turn out to be dinner. But half-bushels of tomatoes appeared at my local farm stands this week, and that’s my prompt to empty the freezer to make room for sauce. Most…
Between travel restrictions and limits on visitors to hospitals, parents may get the news of a loved one’s death over the phone and find themselves having to tell children who may be unprepared. At the end of March, doctors in the child and adolescent psychiatry group at Oxford University, led by Alan Stein, published an…
This briefing has ended. Read live coronavirus updates here. Here’s what you need to know: ImageA medical worker performing a test at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on Friday.Credit…Pete Kiehart for The New York Times Confirmed virus cases in the U.S. surpass 6 million. Twenty-two days. It took more than three months…
When Zozibini Tunzi moved into the Midtown apartment where Cheslie Kryst was living last December, some roommate tension might have been expected. Ms. Tunzi — at the time the reigning Miss South Africa — had just beaten Ms. Kryst — the reigning Miss USA — in the Miss Universe pageant. The rival beauty queens were…
Orthostatic hypotension — to many people those are unfamiliar words for a relatively common but often unrecognized medical problem that can have devastating consequences, especially for older adults. It refers to a brief but precipitous drop in blood pressure that causes lightheadedness or dizziness when standing up after lying down or sitting, and sometimes even…