For the past few years, opening up social media has felt like standing in front of a fire hose of fashion and internet fads and cranking open the nozzle, full blast. New “it” water bottles are anointed almost quarterly. Influencers urge their viewers to style themselves as coastal grandmothers, ballet dancers, indie sleazers and coquettes…
The rules around flying with portable batteries are becoming increasingly confusing as some airlines in Asia change their policies, citing the risk of fires. Airlines in South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand have tightened restrictions since a fire destroyed an Air Busan plane on the tarmac in South Korea in January, one of several recent aviation…
Q: I’m starting a new job in a few weeks. What can I do to prevent burnout? Taking the next step in your career can be exciting — but it can also come with feelings of stress and anxiety which, overtime, can lead to burnout. While not considered a medical condition, burnout is recognized as…
Moving quickly to cross the street, getting out of a chair or catching yourself before a fall all require power, the ability to deploy strength quickly. And power is something you have to train, particularly as you age. One of the best ways to build power is through explosive strength exercises, called plyometrics, which enable…
Look, I’m not accusing Nicolas Cage or anybody else involved in the movie “Pig” of lying. But after a search around Oregon, I haven’t been able to find a single person who hunts the state’s wild truffles with a hog, as Mr. Cage did in the film. Pigs will snarf as many truffles as they…
Five years — and hundreds of millions of cases — after the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 pandemic, scientists are getting a clearer picture of how the virus can affect the body long after an infection seems to pass. Some of Covid’s effects became apparent soon after the virus began spreading. We quickly understood…
By now, Ora Larson recognizes what’s happening. “It feels like you’re shaking inside,” she said. “I’m speeded up. I’m anxious.” If someone asks whether she would like a salad for lunch, she doesn’t know how to respond. She has had several such episodes this year, and they seem to be coming more frequently. “She stares…
As Desiree Frederickson, 40, started watching the third season of “The White Lotus,” the show quickly became personal for her. “I was immediately triggered,” she said. The HBO series follows guests and employees around the White Lotus, a fictional resort chain, with this season set in Koh Samui, an island in Thailand. Among the gaggle…
Delta Air Lines on Monday cut its financial forecast for the first three months of the year, saying that growing economic concerns among businesses and consumers had lowered demand for domestic travel. The airline’s warning was the latest sign that the U.S. economy, or at least perceptions of it, have been weakening in part because…
For part of the year, the artist and activist Ai Weiwei works in a cavernous 30,000-square-foot studio on the underground levels of a former 19th-century brewery in Berlin. Its triple-height vaulted cellars, which Ai, a self-taught architect, renovated himself after leaving his native China in 2015, are now pristine and well-lit, but when he first…