Advice for decorating your home
This column is part of a series for the Design special report of The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/realestate/advice-decorating-your-home.html
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Better disagreements, according to Deepak Chopra
Even if his advice can't help you change another person's mind or behavior, it may help you stay calm on your end of a conflict. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/style/deepak-chopra-disagreement-advice.html
Jewel wants you to be present
Jewel, 46, who gained fame at age 20 with her first studio album, "Pieces of You," in 1995, began practicing mindfulness — a form of meditation that includes being aware...
The carnival parade is canceled, and Rio is reeling
Faced with a pandemic that has killed more than 142,000 people — a toll second only to the United States — a deep economic crisis, and a president whose inner...
Colleges learn how to suppress coronavirus: Extensive testing
As campuses across the country struggle to carry on amid illnesses and outbreaks, a determined minority are beating the pandemic — at least for the moment — by holding infections...
Pavilions inhabit the space between art and architecture
Philip Johnson famously built one experimental pavilion after another on the grounds of his Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. Initiatives like the annual Serpentine Pavilion in London routinely commission...
Pandemic convinces airline workers it’s time for new horizons
Across the country, airline workers have wrestled with similar decisions because of a substantial decline in travel and the growing fear that many passengers may not return for years. Congress...
Ski, party, seed a pandemic: The travel rules that let COVID-19 take flight
When the coronavirus emerged in China in January, the World Health Organization didn't flinch in its advice: Do not restrict travel. But what is now clear is that the policy...
A haven for wildlife and city dwellers opens
Expanding a park usually means modifying an existing landscape. The designers of Pier 26 faced a far more daunting challenge: creating an entirely new one in the swift current of...
Hold me, squeeze me, bite my head
Even in a world absolutely full of bizarre reproductive strategies, southern alligator lizards are up there, engaging in what's known as "mate-holding," a part of the copulatory process in which...