Researchers have for the first time recorded the brain’s firing patterns while a person is feeling chronic pain, paving the way for implanted devices to one day predict pain signals or even short-circuit them. Using a pacemaker-like device surgically placed inside the brain, scientists recorded from four patients who had felt unremitting nerve pain for…
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Spring has been bashful this year in the Northeast, beaming with sunshine one minute, only to cover up with sheets of clouds and dampening rain the next. But, as Kay Chun reminds us, summer is just around the corner, “ready to encourage breezy communal dining under the glow of the sun and the grill,” she…
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As a 44-year-old member of Generation X, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida might be an unlikely candidate to wrest his party’s older voters away from Donald J. Trump, a 76-year-old baby boomer. But he is trying anyway. As Mr. DeSantis closes in on the official rollout of a 2024 campaign for president, he is seeking…
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Kay Redfield Jamison arrives punctually at a towering marble statue of Jesus Christ in the entrance of the old hospital building on Johns Hopkins Medical Campus. Next to it, two guest books are left open to receive the wishes and prayers of those who pass through these halls. “Dear God please help our daughter feel…
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Work can be stressful for everyone—even Natalie Portman. Never mind that the actress and producer is a certified badass who has fought sexism and space invaders, earned a STEM degree from Harvard, and—perhaps toughest of all—danced for hours in pointe shoes while wearing some very bold eyeliner. All that said, she’s still just a girl…standing…
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You covered Greg LeMond when he was a cyclist, but you also wrote your previous book, “Cycling Atlas North America,” with him. How did that happen? The publisher, Rizzoli, asked me to do the book “Cycling Atlas North America.” I said I know some places but I need to have an American expert. Greg was…
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After reconnecting via long-distance phone calls in the early 1990s, Tommi Vincent and Troy Vincent Sr., who had met a few years earlier in Trenton, N.J., decided it was time to exchange photos of each other through the mail. At the time, Mr. Vincent was a 22-year-old cornerback for the Miami Dolphins. “I sent her…
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The crowds streaming into Highland Park Village are hungry for luxury. At this open-air shopping center in suburban Dallas, they valet-park their Porsches, sport Yves Saint Laurent handbags, flit in and out of Audemars Piguet and pause for brunch at Sadelle’s, the fancy new deli from Major Food Group in New York. Sadelle’s has been…
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When Dr. Frank Clark was in medical school studying to be a psychiatrist, he decided to write his first poem. “All that chatter that is in my head, everything that I’ve been feeling, I can now just put it on paper and my pen can do the talking,” he said, recalling his thoughts at the time.…
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Lately I’ve seen an explosion of half-tucked button-up shirts. How do you know what side to tuck in, and what do you do about the back? More broadly, whatever happened to the French tuck, front tuck or full tuck? Does one tuck scream “Midtown office” and another “carefree at the playground”? When do you embrace…
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