It can be hard to determine how much drinking is too much, given the state of, well, everything. The notion that people are drinking their way through this pandemic is pretty pervasive. You might’ve seen a well-known celebrity chef mix herself a giant cocktail, or several award-winning actresses sing in their bathrobes with various bottles […]
Growing up, I understood one thing about my dad: He knew everything. This was our relationship, in sum: I asked him questions and he told me the answers. Is there really a man in the moon? How do sailboats work? What is the highest score anyone’s ever gotten in Pac-Man? In my teen years, he […]
Get the latest on coronavirus. Sign up to the Daily Brief for news, explainers, how-tos, opinion and more. The UK will have a much higher rate of “invisible children” when the country finally emerges from the coronavirus lockdown, health visitors have warned. In line with social-distancing guidelines, health visitors – who usually support families with babies and […]
Salad dressing recipes are the kind of thing that you make one time on a whim, and then realize you’re never going back to store-bought. Premade salad dressings are convenient, sure, but they’re often bland, too sweet, watery, or oversalted. Not to mention, you have to leave your house to obtain them—which, come to think […]
By a more than two-to-one margin, Americans see immigration into the U.S. as mostly a good thing for the country, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds. The poll was taken after President Donald Trump announced he would suspend some immigration into the U.S. for 60 days. The Wednesday order, which will temporarily halt the issuing of […]
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NEW YORK — As the coronavirus pandemic has ravaged New York City, so far killing over 10,000 people, it’s laid bare the harsh racial and social inequities in the five boroughs. About 80% of the city’s frontline workers — grocery store cashiers, nurses, bus drivers, food delivery drivers — are Black or Latino. Look at […]
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Americans have been panic-buying more than just toilet paper and eggs. U.S. alcohol sales spiked 55% in the week ending March 21, according to data from market research firm Nielsen. Online alcohol sales were up 243%. Much of that can probably be attributed to stocking up on booze […]
Since you’re reading this article, we’re going to hazard a guess that at some point, you’ve asked yourself, “Seriously, why am I peeing so much?!” Getting to the bottom of why you’re peeing all the time is, shall we say, a pretty urgent matter. Call it a pressing question, both because it’s important to figure […]
As the SARS virus tore through China in 2003, Zuo-Feng Zhang wondered whether the country’s notoriously polluted air might be amplifying its dangers. The answer he and his scientific colleagues found feels frighteningly relevant now, not just for China, but all across a world where SARS’ coronavirus cousin is bearing down on billions of people […]
The coronavirus lockdown has given us all a crash-course in cooking from our pantries and learning to live on staple items like eggs. Though they’re one of the most eaten foods in human history, we can never seem to figure out how many are healthy to eat, or whether the yolks are bad for us. […]
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Wednesday said she was “honestly shocked” to discover there are still seven states that “really aren’t doing much at all” to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Maddow, citing the National Governor’s Association, said Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Missouri, Mississippi, Idaho and Wyoming had not yet implemented state-wide measures in response to […]
You should also try to use hand sanitizer before touching your face or eating if you can’t wash your hands instead. “For respiratory viruses in particular, one of the ways that we can get sick is if we have the virus on our fingers and we [touch] our eyes, nose, [or] our mouths,” says Dr. […]
Eggs are pretty much synonymous with protein in the average American diet. Considering how much protein in an egg there actually is—six grams in one large egg and seven in an extra large, per the USDA—it’s undeniable how heavily we rely on the affordable, versatile chicken egg to get our protein. In 2018, we produced […]
In any case, it’s reasonable to assume other appendages are okay alternatives to unwashed hands in a pinch, but Tierno recommends sticking to best hygiene practices whenever possible. “You can use the back of your wrist to rub whatever it is or use a sanitizing agent first, but it may behoove you to get up, […]