ALEXANDRA MARVAR
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How Will the Travel Industry Reinvent Itself Post-Coronavirus?
This mountain range north of New York City is experiencing a tourism renaissance.
The stretch of desert north of Santa Fe, N.M. — cut through by the Rio Chama and the Rio Grande — is rich with history. Over centuries, many Native American and Spanish place names have identified its adobe villages and geological formations, and in the late 1980s, the state’s tourism industry gave it yet another title: O’Keeffe Country, after American modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe. With her New Mexico paintings, she helped introduce the region’s surreal landscapes to the world.
Nairobia's, Mrs. Wilkes, The Grey.
The Mississippi Delta is a region rich with blues music, civil rights sites, and agribusiness. It’s also the spiritual home of a beloved snack called the hot tamale.
Sixty-five years after the lynching of a child from Chicago, a new mobile app paves the way for civil rights tourism at the local sites central to his story.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s mentor designed a sprawling ranch in the West; Ted Turner & Jane Fonda came to its rescue
America’s small-town, family-owned pierogi restaurants are handed down from generation to generation. How long can they survive?
These Tamales From the Mississippi Delta Are Worth Selling Your Soul
S C I E N C E
Recent studies indicate SARS-CoV-2’s impacts on the brain—from memory lapses and depression to strokes and seizures—could plague survivors for years, decades, even generations.
Inundated with tourists fleeing lockdowns, Savannah, Georgia’s fight against COVID-19 has been an uphill battle. New vaccine trials offer a source of hope—and another battlefront.
Posing as a harmless messenger molecule, the coronavirus persuades human cells to do its bidding. Treatments will need to unmask it as an intruder—or even deceive it right back.
While Trump’s reported fondness for an unproven plant extract as COVID-19 cure may be just his latest deranged fantasy, some experts say the U.S. is sleeping on plausible options.
So far in 2020, the dementia and Alzheimer’s fatality rate is nearly 20% higher than average from recent years. Being Patient takes a closer look at just why this surge in deaths is occurring:
A medical scandal in Toledo, Ohio is a bold reminder of how important a second opinion on a dementia diagnosis can be.
A research team in the Republic of Korea has made a discovery that could lead to a simple new method for diagnosing Alzheimer’s: Testing your snot.
Certain prescription drugs carry special risks for people living with dementia and may not help their symptoms, but many doctors are prescribing them anyway.
The NFL considers concussions serious injuries, but that has not always been the case. Now, Black players who sustained repeated brain injuries during their NFL careers are suing the league over claims of racially discriminatory treatment.
A settlement in a false advertising lawsuit involving brain health supplement Prevagen could be one of the largest consumer class settlements in the U.S., setting a precedent for better regulation against false advertising in the dietary supplements industry.
A new study has found that people who engaged in learning activities as children — studying foreign languages, being read to, looking at atlases, books and other learning materials, playing games that stimulate the mind — are more likely to have slower rates of cognitive decline later in life.
B U S I N E S S
Social distancing prompts a traditionally low-tech industry toward VR, drones and robotics at breakneck speed.
A primer on self-cleaning and anti-microbial surfaces.
According to the U.S. Labor Department’s latest jobs report, as of May, more than 15 million Americans were on furlough. Here are their stories.
Microbiologists and other experts chime in on the latest technology, from high-grade air filtration systems to HVAC retrofits for bio-polar ionization.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, plastic partitions between desks are “hot right now.” But do they work?
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For some blind birders, avian soundscapes are a way to map the world around them. Increasing noise pollution is imperiling that navigation.
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On an isolated archipelago off the coast of Georgia, where the vestiges of America’s Gilded Age aristocracy keep sprawling estates in tropical wilds, a controversy is roiling over a proposed spaceport.
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There’s Amazon Prime, and then there's shipping by schooner.
As an old outdoor hobby draws new followers, metal detectors are sweeping the country.
The job promises flexible hours, a connection to nature and irresistible Instagram content. But is it recession-proof?
Some modern-day prospectors make thousands of dollars selling precious stones they dug up themselves.
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She wanted a cat that looked like a tiger. Meet the toyger.
Why settle for a tea cozy when you can make knitwear fit for a nuclear winter?
Confined to their homes, Americans are kneading dough.
Step aside, goat yoga. The chic way to unwind now is fly fishing.
T R A V E L / F O O D / L I F E S T Y L E
These crowd-pleasing North American destinations are as perfect for bird-watching as they are for a good old-fashioned vacation.
As our beloved national parks continue to see record-breaking visitor numbers, one writer finds that, this summer, state parks could very well steal the show.
Whether you’re after antiques, modern Southern art, or wreckfish headcheese, Georgia’s riverfront gem honors the old and makes way for the new.
Meet the fifth-generation locksmith who knows more about the city’s inner workings than just about anyone—and can fix “anything but a broken heart”
As searches for quilting patterns surge and Covid quilt-alongs explode online, newcomers to the hobby are channelling a centuries-old Irish tradition: quilting for human connection.
The real Venice is inundated with rising seas. A fake Venice is surrounded by drought-stricken desert. The late Sheldon Adelson's legacy looms over both.
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For centuries, people lit beacons to unite across distances. England keeps this ancient tradition alive.
Some are setting standards for better treatment of mushing dogs
2020: A Wing and a Prayer
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This mountain range north of New York City is experiencing a tourism renaissance.
The stretch of desert north of Santa Fe, N.M. — cut through by the Rio Chama and the Rio Grande — is rich with history. Over centuries, many Native American and Spanish place names have identified its adobe villages and geological formations, and in the late 1980s, the state’s tourism industry gave it yet another title: O’Keeffe Country, after American modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe. With her New Mexico paintings, she helped introduce the region’s surreal landscapes to the world.
Nairobia's, Mrs. Wilkes, The Grey.
The Mississippi Delta is a region rich with blues music, civil rights sites, and agribusiness. It’s also the spiritual home of a beloved snack called the hot tamale.
Sixty-five years after the lynching of a child from Chicago, a new mobile app paves the way for civil rights tourism at the local sites central to his story.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s mentor designed a sprawling ranch in the West; Ted Turner & Jane Fonda came to its rescue
America’s small-town, family-owned pierogi restaurants are handed down from generation to generation. How long can they survive?
These Tamales From the Mississippi Delta Are Worth Selling Your Soul
At Palmetto Bluff, Dr. Mary Socci cares for 12,000 years of human history
S C I E N C E
Spaceports are all the rage these days, but many communities that have jumped on the bandwagon are experiencing buyer’s remorse.
Researchers examine the possibility of permanent brain disorders like Parkinson’s and schizophrenia after COVID-19.
Recent studies indicate SARS-CoV-2’s impacts on the brain—from memory lapses and depression to strokes and seizures—could plague survivors for years, decades, even generations.
Inundated with tourists fleeing lockdowns, Savannah, Georgia’s fight against COVID-19 has been an uphill battle. New vaccine trials offer a source of hope—and another battlefront.
Posing as a harmless messenger molecule, the coronavirus persuades human cells to do its bidding. Treatments will need to unmask it as an intruder—or even deceive it right back.
While Trump’s reported fondness for an unproven plant extract as COVID-19 cure may be just his latest deranged fantasy, some experts say the U.S. is sleeping on plausible options.
So far in 2020, the dementia and Alzheimer’s fatality rate is nearly 20% higher than average from recent years. Being Patient takes a closer look at just why this surge in deaths is occurring:
A medical scandal in Toledo, Ohio is a bold reminder of how important a second opinion on a dementia diagnosis can be.
A research team in the Republic of Korea has made a discovery that could lead to a simple new method for diagnosing Alzheimer’s: Testing your snot.
Certain prescription drugs carry special risks for people living with dementia and may not help their symptoms, but many doctors are prescribing them anyway.
The NFL considers concussions serious injuries, but that has not always been the case. Now, Black players who sustained repeated brain injuries during their NFL careers are suing the league over claims of racially discriminatory treatment.
A settlement in a false advertising lawsuit involving brain health supplement Prevagen could be one of the largest consumer class settlements in the U.S., setting a precedent for better regulation against false advertising in the dietary supplements industry.
A new study has found that people who engaged in learning activities as children — studying foreign languages, being read to, looking at atlases, books and other learning materials, playing games that stimulate the mind — are more likely to have slower rates of cognitive decline later in life.
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Till was murdered 65 years ago. Sites of commemoration across the Mississippi Delta still struggle with what’s history and what’s hearsay.
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At 6 a.m., the sun shoots through the back window of the Amtrak train car like an orange spotlight. Outside, the rails glow against the flat plains of western Kansas. Maybe the light woke me. Or maybe, after four or five times of restlessly opening my eyes, it just happens to be dawn.
A scientifically inexplicable stretch of swamp cedars thrives in the Nevada desert. Indigenous people in the Great Basin area consider this site a traditional meeting place and hope a national monument designation will help protect it.
On Cumberland Island, conservationists fear a new threat to the island’s vulnerable landmarks: rocket launches overhead.
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The Alabama-born artist's 'lynching paintings' goes on view in Birmingham for the first time
A Santa Fe artist’s work opens eyes to drilling and fracking in the Southwest
Inside Georgia O'Keeffe's fallout shelter
Homeownership in the age of the Instagram “travel influencer”
A recent FAA decision could send rockets over Georgia’s Cumberland Island National Seashore, while in Texas, coastal stewards are alarmed about the growing impacts of SpaceX’s mission to Mars.
How the New York City Health Department Separated Immigrant Families During the 1901 Smallpox Outbreak
A gentrifying Atlanta mill town neighborhood through the eyes of photographer Oraein Catledge
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The closure of Desposito's Seafood Restaurant on the Wilmington River in Savannah is the end of an era for local seafood.
The people of Wilcox County, Alabama, remember Sheriff Lummie Jenkins as a god or a monster—it just depends on who you ask
Long after their iconic American quilts caught the art world's attention, the Gee's Bend artisans are taking control of their legacy.
With “America’s Playground,” artist Derrick Adams evokes the damage caused by Interstate 95 as planners routed it through Miami’s Overtown neighborhood.
Despite the global fame of its quilts, the rural hamlet of Gee’s Bend (now Boykin) is deeply impoverished. Boosters say making it an official town could change that
B I Z & T E C H
Online sales gave Gee’s Bend quilters control over their work.
Is the FAA launching spaceports that are doomed to fail? Starry-eyed small town officials — and their constituents — are spending big to find out.
Young people can make real money selling vintage clothes online — if they can stay on the right side of the algorithm
The pandemic brought rampant growth for local food distribution platforms.
Social distancing prompts a traditionally low-tech industry toward VR, drones and robotics at breakneck speed.
A primer on self-cleaning and anti-microbial surfaces.
According to the U.S. Labor Department’s latest jobs report, as of May, more than 15 million Americans were on furlough. Here are their stories.
Microbiologists and other experts chime in on the latest technology, from high-grade air filtration systems to HVAC retrofits for bio-polar ionization.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, plastic partitions between desks are “hot right now.” But do they work?
C U L T U R E
As 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg catalyzes a worldwide youth movement around the climate crisis, her rallying cry is, “Our house is on fire.” But does she know who started it?
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