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HONG KONG (Reuters) – When 7-year-old Sophia Cheung hears a truck park outside her home in Hong Kong, she grabs her sheet music and runs out the door. Sophia Cheung, a 7-year-old student, practices piano on Ming’s Piano truck, following … Continue reading Hong Kong music school keeps on trucking through coronavirus shutdown
KREUZLINGEN, Switzerland (Reuters) – Constance, Germany, and Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, are divided cities these days, with a strip of grass and two fences separating them after the countries closed their borders to slow the spread of the coronavirus. German Maja Bulic … Continue reading Coronavirus divides lovers, friends at Swiss-German border fences
RASA THE WELL JOURNAL goop, $28 SHOP NOW Mia Rigden spent most of her young adulthood in pursuit of great food. Then she became a health coach, got her master’s in nutrition, and designed a food journal called The Well … Continue reading Fixing Your Relationship with Food
Female Founders Sharon Leslie was taking a nap. It was 2013, and she had just finished college. She had a dream about a crystal-filled water bottle. As a kid, Leslie had felt inherently creative. She spent her childhood in New … Continue reading Which Milestones Define Success? | Goop
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers around the globe are racing to better understand and predict how the virus works, how it’s spreading, and how we can mount a response to best protect our communities. There’s new information … Continue reading What Scientists are Learning about COVID-19
Watchman Renato Haeusler rings the Clemence bell to signal an emergency, after announcing the time by yelling to the four points of the horizon between 10 pm and 2 am, a tradition which dates back to 1405, during the coronavirus … Continue reading Lausanne watchman rings cathedral bell anew to signal hope amid pandemic
(Reuters) – A tall, surgical mask-wearing young man stands at the entrance as customers line up outside. A sign at the door – illustrated with stick figures drawn by the co-owner’s 6-year-old daughter – warns clients they can only come … Continue reading ‘Crazy amounts of chicken’ and masks – a small Washington grocer’s typical day
As COVID-19 cases begin to flood hospitals, a severe shortage of personal protective equipment—including masks, gloves, and gowns—poses an enormous threat to the health of frontline health care workers and the patients they care for. We have a shortage of … Continue reading Who’s Helping Fill Medical Supply Shortages during COVID-19?
LAGOS (Reuters) – Sandra Dozie has a fluffy new friend to keep her company during the long tedious hours of a lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus – a four-month old rabbit called Coco. Sandra Dozie, 27, … Continue reading Nigerians turn to rabbits for consolation during coronavirus lockdown
The separated couple, the eighty-nine years old German Karsten Tuchsen Hansen from Suederluegum and his eighty-five years Danish girlfriend Inga Rasmussen from Gallehus meet daily at the Aventoft border crossing after the border has been closed, as the spread of … Continue reading Love in time of coronavirus: octogenarians picnic at Danish-German border
LONDON (Reuters) – Brits aren’t known for being the best cooks, but as the coronavirus lockdown continues, a baking frenzy has taken hold to such an extent that flour is running low in some places and recipe searches have hit … Continue reading Great British lockdown: bread-making frenzy sweeps the UK
Obstetrician-gynecologist Caitlin Fiss, MD, is grateful that the labor and delivery unit at her hospital is an island. In other areas of medicine, doctors are being deployed as intensive care specialists to work against COVID-19 in the ICU. But because … Continue reading How an Ob-Gyn Is Handling Pregnancy and Birth during COVID-19
