Marie-Antoine Carême, considered by many to be the father of French haute cuisine, is perhaps most famous for his sweets — he perfected the soufflé, invented the croquembouche and may have developed the modern wedding cake. But was Carême as racy as he appears in the Apple TV+ series that drops on Wednesday? On the…
Watching wild baboons in Kenya, Akiko Matsumoto-Oda, an evolutionary biologist and primatologist at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan, had a front-row seat to the violence between these monkeys, especially the males. “I was struck by how frequently they sustained injuries,” she said, “and, even more, by how rapidly they recovered — even from…
The Latest The news made for an alarming headline this week: Research showed that common chemicals in plastics were associated with 350,000 heart disease deaths across the world in 2018. The statistic came from a study published Monday in the journal eBioMedicine. The authors, a group of researchers at New York University’s Grossman School of…
When Bill Belichick, one of the country’s most famous football coaches, appeared on “CBS Sunday Morning” over the weekend to promote his new book, “The Art of Winning: Lessons From My Life in Football,” he touched on a number of topics, including his apparent disdain for inspirational halftime speeches. Football, Mr. Belichick said in his…
Patrik and Anna Johall searched for years to find an escape in nature, as a getaway from their primary home in Boras, Sweden. “Even when we met and were very young, Patrik had a dream about having a house by the lake,” said Ms. Johall, now 50, the chief executive of Superstudio, a creative agency…
When Arianna Salerno first moved to Washington, D.C., in 2022 to attend Catholic University she didn’t see many people wearing cross necklaces. But in the past year, she says she has noticed an uptick of the jewelry each time she takes the Metro, and they are now a regular presence on Capitol Hill, where she’s…
Travelers to Europe, mark your calendars (and bring your raincoats). On June 15, activist groups across southern Europe are planning to stage protests against tourism. Although the precise form of those demonstrations has not been decided, it’s a pretty safe bet that water guns will be involved. At a workshop held in Barcelona last weekend…
Like a lot of people around the world, I love pad Thai, with its intricate and craveable combination of flavors and textures. But it’s because I love pad Thai that I stopped ordering it for delivery a long time ago. The stir-fried noodles were always gloopy and globbed when they arrived at my door. The…
Michelle Nedwick doesn’t mind if the 100 guests she’s inviting to her Oct. 3 wedding know she used a weight-loss medication to help her slim down. Ms. Nedwick, a 56-year-old prosecutor from Elyria, Ohio, began taking the compounded form of Zepbound, a type of glucagon-like peptide-1 drug, or GLP-1, in August. So far she’s dropped…
Q: I hear a persistent ringing in my ears that drives me nuts and makes it hard for me to sleep. How can I make it go away? Tinnitus is the experience of hearing phantom noises, typically in the form of ringing, buzzing or roaring sounds. It is a common and usually harmless condition. According…