New York Times – Page 24

Placing women on a different sort of pedestal

October 23, 2020 at 10:01 a.m.

Public monuments are coming under increased scrutiny, the values they represent often proving less resilient than their bronze and marble forms. At the same time, grassroots support for new statues...

Belching cows and endless feedlots: Fixing cattle’s climate issues

October 22, 2020 at 11:59 a.m.

Researchers within and outside the industry are working on ways to reduce emissions from fermentation, through feed supplements or dietary changes. Other efforts aim to lower emissions from the animals'...

Worried about COVID-19 in the winter? Alaska provides a cautionary tale

October 22, 2020 at 11:42 a.m.

Over the summer months, Alaska's restaurants filled up, the state invited tourists to come explore and fisheries workers arrived by the thousands to live in crowded bunkhouses. And yet the...

Purdue Pharma plea offers little solace to survivors of opioid crisis

October 22, 2020 at 10:54 a.m.

More than 20 years after the introduction of OxyContin — and nearly 450,000 opioid overdose deaths later — Wednesday's announcement brought little solace to the survivors of the opioid crisis...

At the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum, all athletes are equal

October 22, 2020 at 10:39 a.m.

The new U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, does not distinguish between winners or losers; the athletes who earned medals and enduring public adoration at the Games...

Flattened basketballs as art

October 21, 2020 at 4:54 p.m.

Tyrrell Winston, 35, is based in New York City and has no formal art training, but he has made a career out of combining his two loves — basketball and...

With Black artists’ input, one gallery is ‘starting to look different’

October 21, 2020 at 10:12 a.m.

While the COVID-19 crisis has tested his capacity for improvisation, the Black Lives Matter movement has fueled David Kordansky's impatience for change. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/arts/design/kordansky-gallery-rashid-johnson.html

Novel brain surgery seeks to reverse epilepsy in sea lion

October 20, 2020 at 3:58 p.m.

The adolescent patient turned sullen and withdrawn. He hadn't eaten in 13 days. Treatment with steroids, phenobarbital and Valium failed to curb the symptoms of his epilepsy. Then, on Sept....

Got crystals? Gem mining could be your full-time job

October 20, 2020 at 2:37 p.m.

Even before the pandemic sent people searching for road trip destinations and outdoor adventure, interest in prospecting and rockhounding (or "fossicking," as it is called in Britain and Australia) was...

‘If there were no hashish here, you wouldn’t see a single house’

October 20, 2020 at 2:27 p.m.

For as long as anyone alive can remember, the yearly cycle in Yamouneh has been driven by the planting, weeding and harvesting of cannabis. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/world/middleeast/lebanon-hashish-cannabis.html

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