More Girls Are Being Diagnosed With Autism

Morénike Giwa Onaiwu was shocked when day care providers flagged some concerning behaviors in her daughter, Legacy. The toddler was not responding to her name. She avoided eye contact, didn’t talk much and liked playing on her own. But none of this seemed unusual to Dr. Onaiwu, a consultant and writer in Houston. “I didn’t recognize anything…

The Wide World of Tofu

“These are good times for tofu lovers,” Andrea Nguyen writes in The New York Times this week, for her smart tofu primer that considers three categories: basic, chewy and intensely flavored. She reports that America’s tofu consumption has roughly doubled in recent years, fueled in part by a growing interest in plant-based cooking. Whether smoked,…

Calling All Bodies

Just when so much in the culture is stuck in what can seem like a grimly benighted loop comes a ray of alt-cult sunshine to brighten our tiny screens. What unexpected form does it take? A music video. Nowadays the announcement of a new high fashion-high street collaboration is roughly as exciting as a Steve…