People
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Newyork
China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Obsession Is Gone, but the Trauma Lingers
SHANGHAI — For nearly three years, leaving my apartment involved a routine not unlike an aircraft pilot’s before takeoff. Mask: check. Anti-viral hand sanitizer: Check. Green code on my smartphone reflecting latest negative Covid test: Check. Courage ...
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News
TikTok Class Is in Session
Those who can go viral do. And they may also teach a class or two while they’re at it.
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Newyork
Was the World Collapsing? Or Were You Just Freaking Out?
What should we make of this year in America? There’s an argument that this is the end, or the beginning of the end, that the infrastructure of our democracy is crumbling, and that the jittery quality in the economy portends collapse and that the ...
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World
Dutch Prime Minister Apologizes for His Country’s Role in the Slave Trade
People were “exploited and abused in the name of the Dutch state,” Mark Rutte said, but some descendants of enslaved people say the government did not involve them in the apology.
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World
From Zero Covid to No Plan: Behind China’s Pandemic U-Turn
After micromanaging the coronavirus strategy for nearly three years, the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, has suddenly left the populace to improvise.
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World
How Can Tainted Spinach Cause Hallucinations?
A food recall from Australia sheds light on an unusual aspect of brain chemistry.
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Newyork
How Dapper Dan, Harlem Haberdasher, Spends His Sundays
The style icon is a news obsessive, a reader, a salsa dancer and a churchgoer (he skips the sermons, though).
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Newyork
My So-So Encounters with ChatGPT
A mountain man buys his first chain saw. He comes back to the store a week later complaining that it cuts down only two trees a day when he was told it would cut down 20. The service person says, “Well, let’s see what the trouble is,” and starts it ...
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News
New Covid Booster Shots Cut Risk of Hospitalization by Half, C.D.C. Reports
The research was conducted in part when older variants of the coronavirus were spreading. Other factors may have influenced the conclusions.
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Science
What Should You Do When the Bear Is Cinnamon?
Scientists have uncovered a genetic mutation that makes it dangerously difficult to distinguish a black bear from a grizzly.