“Aside from some congestion and coughing, the gorillas are doing well,” said Lisa Peterson, executive director of the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/realestate/who-left-new-york-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/realestate/who-left-new-york-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage) >"Tens of thousands of New Yorkers left the city when the pandemic struck and spent months _...Read More_

The AP used U.S. Customs records and the most recently published data from producers, traders and buyers..

>"The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out."

>"From videoconferencing to fitness apps, the best tech helped us endure a hard year. But there were also low points."

>"With all its stress and uncertainty, this year hasn’t exactly been a banner year for intimacy. But that can change."

>"Gaggan Anand turned his Indian restaurant in Bangkok into a pilgrimage site for globe-hopping foodies. So why, even before the pandemic hit, was he willing to give it up?"

"If people ate less meat and sugar and more vegetables, 11 million fewer would die prematurely and humanity could also slow climate change, a new report finds."

“The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed - to be seen, heard and companioned exactly as it is. When we make that kind of deep bow to the soul of a suffering person, our respect reinforces _...Read More_

I love rembrandt so much

"Data confirms more women have realized there are far worse things than dying alone, which is bad news for the patriarchy"

"She wonders whether a program like Asana might help even out the imbalances in household duties that often arise between partners—especially men and women—by making them more visible. “It tends to be that couples divide this work up in _...Read More_

“Life expectancies started to stall just after the austerity cuts were introduced,” said Hiam. “That alone does not prove the latter was the trigger for the former. However, no other plausible suggestion has since survived scrutiny, so it _...Read More_

From the UES, Emily Segal on the Met Museum, Susan Miller (Astrology Zone) and managing mass anxiety... "For a generation that grew up in an age of perma-crisis, everyday social life is its own form of geo-strategic coping."

"They seem mindless of the fact that all too often, mindfulness has been reduced to a commodified and instrumental self-help technique that unwittingly reinforces neoliberal imperatives."