After New York Times published an article titled ‘India Is Stalling the WHO’s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public’ on April 16, India has shot back by sharing its concerns over the methodology adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the analysis.   On several occasions, it has already raised the issue…Continue Reading

Indian swimmers, Sajan Prakash and Vedaant Madhavan, bagged gold and silver medals, respectively at the Danish Open, which is being held in Copenhagen.    While two-time Olympian Sajan stood atop the podium by clocking 1:59:27 for the 200-meter butterfly, 16-year-old Vedaant Madhavan won the silver medal by clocking 15:57:86 in the 1500m freestyle event.  …Continue Reading

In the mid-1980s, as he was launching his academic career, psychiatrist Thomas Insel decided to research the neural pathways for social attachment. His work ended up documenting the important roles that the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin play in both parental care and monogamy. But despite his pioneering findings, he was fired in the early 1990s…Continue Reading

A contraption sucked milk from my breasts while my newborn slept next to my hospital bed and the Pope canonized Mother Teresa on TV. He must have bussed in people without housing from Milan, Bologna, Florence and Naples while my nipples filled with colostrum thick as mozzarella. In St. Peter’s Square, he blessed the chefs…Continue Reading

Growing up, restaurateur Andy Kalish associated two smells with Friday nights: his grandmother’s chicken soup and mothballs in his grandfather’s closet. Kalish’s grandparents, Sam and Gertie, were both immigrants — from Romania and Glasgow-by-way-of-Romania, respectively — who had settled in the Dexter-Davidson corridor of Detroit, a historically Jewish neighborhood.  There, Kalish’s childhood was steeped with traditional Ashkenazi…Continue Reading

RECIPE A European baking secret unlocks the most tender cookies ever Hardboiled Egg Cookies (Mary Elizabeth Williams) Facebook 132 Twitter Reddit Email 2 save In “Quick & Dirty,” Salon Food’s Mary Elizabeth Williams serves up simplified recipes and shortcuts for exhausted cooks just like you — because quick and dirty should still be delicious. I…Continue Reading

Authorities in South Carolina are investigating a shooting that left one person injured at the Hollywood Wax Museum in Myrtle Beach.  “MBPD responded to a report of a person with a gunshot wound at the Hollywood Wax Museum just after 8pm,” the Myrtle Beach Police Department said Saturday. “The area is secure and the injured person is…Continue Reading