David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
This Startup Is Growing Sushi-Grade Salmon From Cells in a Lab
As the ills of factory farming become more pronounced, people are increasingly gravitating towards vegetarian or pescatarian diets. Besides producing a large percentage of our total greenhouse gas emissions, raising livestock uses up a third of the world’s arable land…
There’s no place like home for the holidays – and that’s what makes the pandemic’s winter surge particularly devastating
Frank T. McAndrew, Knox College While Christmas playlists often include cheesy favorites like “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” there are also a handful of wistful tracks that go a little bit deeper. Listen…
A Million Different Things Make One …And Night: Motivation Habits Meditation
And Night, Meditation #11 is from A Million Different Things: Meditations of The World’s Happiest Man, and is concerned with motivation, habits and meditation. By David Stone The picture… The picture is persistently reinforced within us that there is someone a…
Nurse in Queens is first New Yorker to receive coronavirus vaccine
(The Center Square) – A critical care registered nurse from a hospital in Queens became the first New Yorker – and possibly first American – to receive the COVID-19 vaccination Monday morning. Sandra Lindsay received the first dose of the…
From ‘arse-ropes’ to ‘flying venom’: A history of how we’ve come to talk about viruses and medicine
Symptom, virus, epidemic, quarantine. We’ve become used to these terms in 2020. But the “COVID-19 vocabulary” might have been very different had it not been for a few twists and turns in English history. If history had gone differently, for…
How men can ‘lean in’ on behalf of women
Opinion OPINION: Women have been pulled away from their jobs during the pandemic. Here’s what they need right now from male allies in the office. By W. Brad JohnsonBy David G. Smith 12.10.2020 Men who thought the Covid-19 “she-cession” was…
Cat in Times Square and his other fun adventures in the big city…
About the cat in Times Square… Traveling with George the Cat in Times Square and New York City By David Stone Of course, I was aware as you would be that a cat’s reaction would be different than mine. Until George…
I Found My Secret to Feeling Younger and Stronger. The Pandemic Stole It Away.
Back in early January, before COVID-19 was as familiar as the furniture, I went in for my annual physical. My doctor looked at my test results and shook his head. Virtually everything was perfect. My cholesterol was down. So was…
A RIOC COVID Testing Site for Roosevelt Island? Far Behind Schedule, Plagued By Mystery
“A new COVID-19 rapid testing location will be opening on Roosevelt Island in mid-December 2020! Testing will be located at 526 Main St., the former R.I. Branch Library location…” That was RIOC on November 30th. But now, it’s December 11th……
America’s hidden world of handmade pornography
Lisa Z. Sigel, DePaul University “To live among the handmade,” philosopher and antiques dealer Leon Rosenstein once said, “is to live among the human.” Well, there’s nothing more human than handmade pornography. When you hear “pornography,” you might think of…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor