“What is the hottest ‘room’ temperature at which a human body can, by sweating, keep itself cool enough to avoid health damage?” — Matt B., Etterzhausen, Germany It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. Your body avoids overheating by taking advantage of a bit of physics: When water evaporates from a surface, it leaves the…
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ImageThe F.D.A.’s list of hand sanitizers to be avoided has grown to include over 100 products.Credit…Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has expanded its list of hand sanitizers that consumers should avoid to include products with inadequate levels of alcohol in addition to those containing methanol. The agency issued…
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Here’s what you need to know: N.Y.C.’s health commissioner resigns after clashing with the mayor over the virus. ImageDr. Oxiris Barbot, New York City’s health commissioner, during a coronavirus meeting in New York in March. She resigned on Tuesday.Credit…Dave Sanders for The New York Times New York City’s health commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, resigned on…
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Headliner The Greens Rooftop drinking and dining has become an attractive option amid the pandemic: The venues are mostly outdoors and provide enough space for social distancing. The Pier 17 complex, part of the Howard Hughes Corporation’s development at the South Street Seaport, is a fine example of that. Surrounded by promenades with views across…
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Scientists are beginning to untangle one of the most complex biological mysteries of the coronavirus pandemic: Why do some people get severely sick, whereas others quickly recover? In certain patients, according to a flurry of recent studies, the virus appears to make the immune system go haywire. Unable to marshal the right cells and molecules…
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In January, the Outdoor Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Outdoor Industry Association, shared some gloomy statistics. According to its annual survey, fewer than 20 percent of Americans were recreating outside at least once a week, working out to an estimated billion fewer outdoor activities a year compared to a decade earlier. Just under half…
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Picture a great restaurant, the chef up at dawn, dusting hand-milled flour on a butcher’s block. The chef under a spotlight, tweezing chive blossoms in the chaos of the pass, or fanning the wood fire under a row of shimmering, trussed birds. The chef is in sharp focus, but everything else — everyone else —…
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I showed up at the chef Carlos Gaviria’s apartment in Bogotá, Colombia, fully expecting to bite into something surprisingly delicious, but I did not expect to have my mind blown. Earlier that month, he had invited my family via Instagram direct message to cook with him during our most recent trip to my wife, Adri’s,…
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Jo Ellen Chism, 57, a retiree who lives in The Woodlands, Texas, about an hour outside Houston, was nervous about attending her stepson’s wedding on June 20. “They were going to postpone it, but then the Catholic church decided they would open and would have up to 75 people,” she said. “75 people seemed like…
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Last year, more than 31 million people visited the Caribbean, more than half of them from the United States. I was one of them. Together, we contributed $59 billion to the region’s 2019 gross domestic product — accounting for a whopping 50 to 90 percent of the G.D.P. for most of the countries, according to…
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