My husband, Peter, and I have landed in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and already the strange seems familiar again.

Reflecting this, MSG is labeled “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) by the FDA. Yes, “you can experience side effects like headache if you consume too much MSG, but this seems to be rare,” Dr. Alan ...

Like a deeply dysfunctional relationship, my jade plants reward me for forgetting about them, neglecting them, and treating them badly. A near-total lack of care and the lowest possible emotional ...

Sometimes it seems funny how things go, but often, if one looks hard enough, one can see why. In 2020, elaborating Giorgio Agamben’s pandemic perspectives, one of the two authors of Nihilist Communism ...

Birk and Svea Irving, grandchildren of the great American author John Irving, are competing in Milan Cortina this week.

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Yesterday I saw a friend, Bridget, whom I had not seen for a full year. “How have you been?” she asked. “I have learned a lot about myself this year,” I told her. But at the time it was hard to say ...

At the start of the year, Earth will quietly reach a milestone in its orbit around the sun. Known as perihelion, this is the moment when our planet is closer to the sun than at any other point in the ...

If you’ve wondered what a preamplifier is, what it exactly does, and whether your audio setup is missing one, we’ve got the answers—as well as some of our top recommendations. An audio signal needs ...

Everyone in tech agrees we’re in a bubble. They just can’t agree on what it looks like — or what happens when it pops. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world ...

I was weeding through my closet, as I need to do much more often than I do. I bring my used clothing to my parent’s house up north, because they have a very nice thrift store that employs the ...