Photo: Getty Images Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has had one heck of a season, but all he’s accomplished could be nothing but a memory if they stumble against the Houston Texans this week. Jackson was so good this year that he could become the first QB since Steve McNair in 2003 to win the…
A new study reported that adults 60 and older who took a daily multivitamin for two years scored higher on memory and cognitive tests than those who took a placebo — a rare example of a clinical trial finding that a nutritional supplement might actually benefit healthy people. “It suggests that multivitamins can be a…
Nancy E. Adler, a health psychologist whose work helped transform the public understanding of the relationship between socioeconomic status and physical health, died on Jan. 4 at her home in San Francisco. She was 77. The cause was pancreatic cancer, her husband, Arnold Milstein, said. Dr. Adler was instrumental in documenting the powerful role that…
The medieval tale of King Arthur hardly calls to mind watchmaking, which wasn’t developed until a couple of centuries later. But in contemporary watchmaking, King Arthur is synonymous with the Swiss watchmaker Roger Dubuis. The brand’s Knights of the Round Table collection, first introduced in 2013, featured watch dials with imaginative scenes from the legend,…
Winter is throwing quite a wrench in the professional sports calendar. Outside of rainouts in baseball, weather does not cause many game cancellations. The worst months of the year for weather in the United States are usually January-March. That is hockey and basketball season and those sports are played indoors. Conditions at outdoor football stadiums…
When the Moroccan financier Aziz Nahas decided to buy and regenerate a farm outside Marrakesh about two decades ago, he underestimated how much would grow there. Now, the 10-acre plot produces organic vegetables and fruits as well as hosting an artist residency program and a ceramic studio, all under the name Sanctuary Slimane. In 2021,…
Just as the worlds of architecture and industrial design have played with novel color combinations in recent years, so has the luxury watch sector, with brands including ArtyA, Chronoswiss, Oris and Zenith capitalizing on color as a way to stand out in the crowded Swiss watch field. By using cutting-edge techniques and processes such as…
On the volcanic slopes of Hawaii’s Big Island, hundreds of farmers in the Kona region produce one of the most expensive coffees in the world. Those farmers recently won a series of settlements — totaling more than $41 million — after a nearly five-year legal battle with distributors and retailers that were accused of using…
“It’s not what you say, but how you say it,” is a wise adage. But at ESPN, it’s always felt like who said it was more important than what was said. Aaron Rodgers and Pat McAfee haven’t been sticking to sports for a while now, which was, and still is, a privilege that former and…
In response to Nick Saban’s sudden retirement, the Crimson Tide hired Washington’s Kalen Deboer and averted the mistake that’s plagued program after program over the last half century. Bravo to Alabama for expanding beyond their horizons. What Jason Kelce’s retirement says about the Eagles future Serving as the CEO of a Fortune 500 football program…
