Taking Baths May Be Good for Your Heart

Taking frequent baths may reduce the risk for cardiovascular disease, new research suggests. Japanese researchers studied 30,076 men and women beginning in 1990 and followed them through 2009. The participants completed questionnaires about their general health and their bathing habits at the start of the analysis. Researchers divided them into three groups: people who took…

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Stop Trying to Be Productive

When Dave Kyu, 34, an arts administrator in Philadelphia, realized that he would be working from home for the foreseeable future, he began to fantasize about the projects he could now complete around the house. “We went and bought all this paint and cabinet hardware and thought we were going to do the kitchen cabinet…

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Celebrating Apart, Together

Good morning. There’ll be no April Fools’ tomfoolery today, not with so much of the nation locked down and so many sick, or worried. Spring’s sprung and the daffodils are coming up, but it’s hard to think of rebirth or practical joking right now, when so many are self-isolated and wondering what tomorrow will bring…

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Covid-19 Changed How the World Does Science, Together

Using flag-draped memes and military terminology, the Trump administration and its Chinese counterparts have cast coronavirus research as national imperatives, sparking talk of a biotech arms race. The world’s scientists, for the most part, have responded with a collective eye roll. “Absolutely ridiculous,” said Jonathan Heeney, a Cambridge University researcher working on a coronavirus vaccine.…

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