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How Can Tainted Spinach Cause Hallucinations?

A food recall from Australia sheds light on an unusual aspect of brain chemistry.

World

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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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…

Health

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…

Magazine

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.

World

Police Officers May No Longer Hold People to Check for Warrants

A settlement filed Friday will bar N.Y.P.D. officers from detaining people at length as they check databases for reasons to…

World

Will ChatGPT Make Me Irrelevant?

Like every other journalist I know, I often and unabashedly ask for help. Friends give me ideas. Colleagues give me…

World

Can New York’s Plan for Mentally Ill Homeless People Make a Difference?

In a big city, the number of untreated, severely mentally ill people is relatively small. But making sure they get…

World

How Do You Solve a Problem Like the B.Q.E.?

The infamous Brooklyn-Queens Expressway needs an overhaul. But there are different views on how to fix it.

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D.A. to Offer Mental Health Care to People Arrested in Manhattan

District Attorney Alvin Bragg plans to spend $9 million to provide social workers and housing services to those who want…

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