Image CreditVictoria Roberts Q. How do bees find the flowers in the container garden on the fourth-floor deck of my city apartment? A. Foraging bees use the same methods to find nectar and pollen four floors up that they use at ground level. Honeybees routinely fly two miles from their hives in their search for…
Omega-3 fatty acids in foods may reduce symptoms of childhood asthma, while omega-6 fats may aggravate them, a small study suggests. Omega-3s are found in high concentrations in fish and walnuts. Omega-6 sources include corn oil and other vegetable oils. Some foods contain both. Researchers studied 135 asthmatic children, ages 5 to 12, living in…
Courtesy Pool party? Beach barbecue? Dayclub? (That’s a thing, right?) Going out in the summer often means being in a bathing suit for part of the time. So what to wear around it? We rounded up 13 tips, complete with advice on the best fabrics to combat heat, wardrobe basics that always work, and more.…
No one playing Bob Fosse could feel like a good dancer. Not even Sam Rockwell, who can shimmy so well that many of his movie characters cannot make it to the end of a film without busting a move. He improvised slinky malefactor slides for his villains in “Charlie’s Angels” and “Iron Man 2.” The…
Maureen Dowd: You can lasso a moving target from 12 to 15 feet away. Sam Rockwell: Confirm. James Brown was your biggest inspiration as a dancer. That’s true, yeah. Christian Bale threw a chair at you while filming “Vice.” I wish that was true. That would be funny. Christian Bale is scarier than Dick Cheney.…
You see them when you’re out to dinner — maybe not as often as you used to, but they’re there. The distinguished older gentleman at a table for one; the magnetic woman with a journal, a salad and a glass of chardonnay at the bar; the couple who enter a crowded bistro, air-kiss the hostess…
The Look Fashion insiders rely on roomy straight-leg jeans with a waistband that hits near the belly button as their go-to denim. The high rise makes it all the better for tucking a top in, a cinched silhouette that, in this case, balances a men’s short-sleeve shirt worn open and loose. The choice of shoes…
Image Gov. J.B. Pritzker, center, with Bill Hadley, the Stephenson County board chairman, right, and Pastor Antwon Funches of St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church, left, during a stop to survey flood damage in Freeport, Ill.CreditScott P. Yates/Rockford Register Star, via Associated Press The news that Anna Sorokin, the New York “party girl grifter” whose story…
When did leggings make the leap from garment to cultural lightning rod? For what are essentially stretchy footless tights in a seemingly endless array of patterns and colors, they have been an unexpected source of controversy. The latest uproar came last week, when Maryann White, the mother of four sons, wrote a letter to the…
“We tend to think hormone disrupters are a mom and baby issue,” said Dr. Leonardo Trasande, the chief of the division of environmental pediatrics at N.Y.U. School of Medicine. “But it literally can be a life and death matter for folks who are not even trying to have a family.” Dr. Trasande is one of…