I’ve written a bit on this blog about my propensity for odd and eccentric Jews, and I’ve written about it elsewhere, too, basically anywhere I was given the opportunity, and I was paid. For this interview, which I conducted as part of the research for my book, I focused on two specific odd and eccentric …
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During the workweek, John Donohue is an editor at the “Goings On About Town” section of the New Yorker. But most weekends—and on the rare weeknight when he has time—you can find him in his kitchen, cooking for his wife and two young daughters. Fatherhood is still a role more associated with breadwinning than bread-baking, …
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Yep, it’s real. That was the first thing almost everyone wanted to know about the now-infamous “Baby Yoga with Lena Fokina” video. The swinging, flipping and lariat-like twirling of a tiny infant seemed so surreal—and the baby so unmoved by its plight—that many viewers decided it had to be a hoax. I had a hard …
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A UK report published last week offered details about how Dr. Andrew Wakefield falsified his 1998 report linking autism to certain childhood vaccines. The fraudulent study launched more than a decade of misinformation and anxiety surrounding routine vaccinations. Wakefield has been of particular interest to me ever since my daughter’s pediatrician in New York had …
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