Is our mother still with us? Sometimes, it’s hard to tell. On her best days, she can manage whole sentences, though occasionally they’ll be in Arabic, her first language. Other times her words are mangled between what remains of her mind and her lips — or they’re lost altogether.
Credit: Courtesy James NapoliA few years ago, purple splotches appeared on my fingers and toes. I assumed these painful spots were just bruises, and I ignored them. A month later, my cheeks were covered in a rash. Then my right leg cramped up, like a charley horse that wouldn't quit.
How much energy does an industry deserve to consume? Right now, organizations around the world are facing pressure to limit the consumption of non-renewable energy sources and the emission of carbon into the atmosphere.
Shortages of semiconductors are battering automakers and tech giants, raising alarm bells from Washington to Brussels to Beijing. The crunch has raised a fundamental question for policymakers, customers and investors: Why can’t we just make more chips?
The loss of a friendship can be devastating.
Postnuptial planning can be as dramatic as the big day itself.
In recent weeks, Dr. Kali Cyrus has struggled with periods of exhaustion. "I am taking a nap in between patients," says Cyrus, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University. "I'm going to bed earlier. It's hard to even just get out of bed. I don't feel like being active again."
One of the eternal mysteries of life is how it is possible to know full well a given activity is terrible for you and yet do it anyway. And I don't just mean big, dramatic bad habits like drugs.
From shady contractors to phony sweepstakes, these scams target older Americans.
Arthur C. Brooks will discuss the science of happiness live at 11 a.m. ET on May 20. Register for In Pursuit of Happiness here. “You are … irritating and unbearable, and I consider it most difficult to live with you.
If you haven’t been camping in the last decade, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the pastime is mostly fueled by trail mix and burnt hot dogs. But the camping trips of today exist on a different plane entirely, particularly when it comes to cooking.
Last week, I decided to pants my husband in the kitchen. He was making breakfast before his morning meeting, and it just seemed like the perfect moment to throw him off, especially because I knew he had a stressful day ahead of him.
I was nursing a devastating breakup when I suddenly found myself in Switzerland, trying to talk my way into Freddie Mercury’s birthday party. It was the best decision I ever made.
Like many Jews on Christmas Eve, Jordan Frazes was bored. She didn’t have the option to meet up with friends or hit up a Chinese restaurant; the pandemic kept her sequestered at home in Chicago with her parents.
From gothic novels to dystopian Y.A. blockbuster franchises, there is no genre of literature that hasn’t put its own spin on the trope of “withdrawn young girl is sent away to relatives and arrives at intimidating new location that feels, at first, cold and distant.
There’s more to cleaning than just aesthetics.
Joe and Mario Duplantier grew up in a calm idyll – perhaps surprisingly for two of metal’s most forthright rabble-rousers. Born to a sketch-artist father and yoga teacher mother, the brothers were raised in Ondres, a remote commune on France’s western coast.
As COVID-19 wanes in the United States, symptoms like loss of taste and smell are on the outs too. Imminently returning to the “in” list, though: hearing loss.
Be honest, but concise.
Consider a pleasure recalibration based on ‘l’éducation du gout.’