In a garden she developed by the corner of a building on Purdue University’s campus, in West Lafayette, Ind., Janna L. Beckerman invites trouble. The goal of this “disease garden,” as Dr. Beckerman, a professor of plant pathology, calls it, is to get botany and horticulture students up close and personal with what she refers…
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More Than Likes is a series about social media personalities who are trying to do positive things for their communities. To Shirley Raines, they are royalty: The woman with the paralyzed arm who uses a shoelace as a sling. The man whose hands shake as he opens his bag. The little girl who, when seeing…
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As interest has intensified around Ozempic and other injectable diabetes medications like Mounjaro, which works in similar ways, that term has gained traction. Videos related to the subject “food noise explained” have been viewed 1.8 billion times on TikTok. And some of the people who have managed to get their hands on these medications —…
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When Luis Herrera is cooking, Korean gochugaru, Thai curry paste and Venezuelan ají dulce make their way into his pots and pans. They appear as often as guajillo and ancho chiles and fresh masa milled down the block from his Mexican restaurant, Ensenada, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Inspired by the compatibility of various cuisines, the Venezuelan…
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The New York State Legislature gave final approval on Tuesday to legislation that provides legal protection for New York doctors to prescribe and send abortion pills to patients in states that have outlawed abortion. The measure, along with similar new laws in several other states controlled by Democrats, could significantly expand medication abortion access by allowing more…
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Looking for Purpose Ms. Calderone grew up in a small town on Long Island, where, she said, her worldview, was fairly limited. “We didn’t travel,” she said. “We didn’t eat anything other than our Italian American pasta-and-meatballs kind of situation.” As the daughter of two hairdressers, she was enamored with the business of beauty. “I…
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There’s nothing better than finding your neighborhood in New York City. The place where you feel the most comfortable in your skin, where you feel immersed in the community and held close by its warmth. For me, as a Black woman, that is Bed-Stuy, where I’ve lived since 2015. The Times would have me render it…
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Gertrude’s A sibling to Nate Adler and Rachel Jackson’s Gertie, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has moved into the space that had been James, in Prospect Heights. They have the chef Eli Sussman of Samesa onboard for what they are calling a New York bistro. Oysters with pickled beet mignonette and other appetizers with a taste for smoked…
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I don’t think I ever understood how any meat broth could be the basis of a restaurant’s reputation until I ate the dweji gomtang at Okdongsik. Located on the southeastern outskirts of Koreatown in Manhattan, Okdongsik is nearly a replica of a restaurant in Seoul with the same name, a variation on the name of…
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