Billionaire tech bro Peter Thiel may not be donating as much money to losing Republican politicians as he did in 2020, but that doesn’t mean he’s forgotten how to throw his cash toward questionable investments.Earlier this week, Thiel admitted to journalist Ba... More »
Dr. Joseph Varon comforts a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit on Thanksgiving at the United Memorial Medical Center on Nov. 26, 2020 in Houston. (Go Nakamura/Getty Images)Friday’s declaration by the World Health Organization that the coronavirus emer... More »
In “Yes and Yes,” at the Irish Arts Center, Liz Roche responds to “Ulysses,” true to her own voice as she converses with his famously convoluted one.Some dances emerge from a choreographer’s own obsessions, and others, like Liz Roche’s “Yes and Yes,” from an e... More »
"" The Great Basin spans across six states in the United States, and its high elevation makes it cold and desolate. Robert Stolting/Shutterstock The Great Basin Desert is a vast, arid region in the weste... More »
Acknowledging that it is losing some of its eyes and ears across the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week unveiled a scaled-down COVID-19 surveillance system for the post-pandemic era.The CDC’s new monitoring network won’t ha... More »
The Los Angeles Police Department is updating the cameras in its patrol cars to capture wider angles with higher resolution and allow for video to upload from the field to a station, in hopes of increasing transparency in police interactions, Chief Michel Moor... More »
The Biden administration has found that Alabama’s public health departments discriminated against Black residents by denying access to adequate sanitation systems.A 2017 study, published first by the Guardian, found the hookworm parasite transmitted in fecal m... More »
To define a liquid, we must first define a fluid. Any material that flows continuously when a shearing force is applied is a fluid. Think of a shearing force as a cutting action through a substance that causes it to flow continuously. For example, moving your ... More »
The spring gala featured premieres by the veteran Christopher Wheeldon and a newcomer, Alysa Pires. The surprise was the lack of contrast and risk.In recent years, New York City Ballet has been paying a lot of attention to new voices, commissioning little-know... More »
The choreographer Miguel Gutierrez presents the New York premiere of “I as another,” a duet with Laila Franklin, at Baryshnikov Arts Center.At the end of Miguel Gutierrez’s “I as another,” there is a familiar idea in the air: Just as no two people are alike, n... More »
LONDON — There won’t be a HarryCam at the coronation of King Charles III in Westminster Abbey on Saturday — even though much of the world may be tuning in for a glimpse of the Duke of Sussex.On the day of Charles’ long-awaited glory, the man who’s had the lon... More »
An advocacy group suing the federal government in a bid to limit nationwide access to the abortion drug mifepristone has wrestled for a decade to conceal the influence its religious beliefs exert over its public policy pursuits. The doctor-focused organization... More »