Proper asparagus-eating etiquette has long been a subject of debate: Should you cut the treelike spears with a fork and knife, or are they an acceptable finger food? When it comes to asparagus’s nutritional value, though, there’s little dispute. Here are its most notable health attributes, plus fresh ways to prepare it from New York…
Even before President Trump’s tariffs threatened to upend Apple’s manufacturing business in China, the company’s struggle to make new products was leading some people inside its lavish Silicon Valley headquarters to wonder whether the company had somehow lost its magic. The tariffs, which were introduced April 2, caused Apple to lose $773 billion in market…
On Saturday, chasing the high of bread for dinner, I set out to cook Alexa Weibel’s vegetarian mushroom shawarma pitas and invited a couple of friends over to join me. The recipe requires very little shopping; I picked up a couple packs of portobellos and asked one guest to pick up a head of red…
Dr. Howard Luks didn’t think much about agility — the ability to move quickly while changing speed and direction — until movements that used to come easily became more challenging. Dr. Luks, 61, works as an orthopedic surgeon and is an avid trail runner and climber. During his outdoor workouts, he began to struggle with…
Writing this newsletter is easier some weeks than others. Inspiration minds no schedule. Often it strikes me on the subway, where I’ll hammer out a few paragraphs in my Notes app, or in the shower, where I’ll reach for my phone perched on the sink ledge and dictate a flurry of one-liners into the Voice…
Good morning. Five years ago I was a week into lockdown, terrified of the pandemic raging outside my door. I’d laid in supplies to keep my family fed for a month, acquired a ton of masks and gallons of antiseptic, set up a home office in my bedroom and just generally prepared us for what…
Dr. Joe Whittington, 47, has been an emergency room physician for two decades, but he can still find it tough to quiet his mind after leaving the hospital. As he tried to doze off after one particularly chaotic shift, he kept thinking about a victim of a motorcycle crash whose vital signs had tanked, a…
Before Bill Cunningham rode his bicycle around the city taking photos of fashionable New Yorkers for The New York Times, he helped dress some of them as William J., the milliner. Along with socialites and Old Hollywood stars — Doris Duke, Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe and Ginger Rogers among them — his fans included people…
In 2009, when Nvidia held its first developer conference, the event was something of a science fair. Dozens of academics filled a San Jose, Calif., hotel decorated with white poster boards of computer research. Jensen Huang, the chipmaker’s chief executive, roamed the floor like a judge. This year, Nvidia’s developer conference is far different. More…
On a recent Friday morning, Daniel, a lawyer in his early 40s, was in a Zoom counseling session describing tapering off lithium. Earlier that week he had awakened with racing thoughts, so anxious that he could not read, and he counted the hours before sunrise. At those moments, Daniel doubted his decision to wean off…
