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At Azara Ballet, dancers aren’t expected to make eye contact with the directors and choreographers. If company members need an impromptu break from the harsh stage lights during rehearsal, they take one. They also receive clear directions about hair and makeup well in advance of performances.The priority at Azara is dancers’ health. Founded in 2022 by the dancers Kate Flowers and Martin Roosaare, who are both autistic (and are a married couple), the company, which is based in Sarasota and Bradenton, Fla., is a haven for neurodivergent performers. (The company is made up of 10 dancers, not all of whom…

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Thanks to the work of an intrepid photographer in Southern Europe, we learned last week that Royal Enfield is well into development on a bike that fans of the brand have been demanding for years: a 650cc version of its wildly popular Himalayan.A series of good, clear spy photos were published at outlets like MCNews and 1000ps, showing exactly how Enfield’s popular 650cc engine platform will fit into an adventure tourer:What it looks likeThe forthcoming Himalayan 650 has a front end that looks similar to that of a Husqvarna Norden 901. This bike’s fairing is less angular, and the cowling…

“We will make Americans healthy again,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has declared. A political action committee that has promoted Mr. Kennedy, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for health and human services secretary, says his movement is “igniting a health revolution in America.”But the word “again” presumes a time in the country’s past when Americans were in better health. Was there ever really a time when America was healthier?For historians of medicine, there is a short answer.“No,” said Nancy Tomes, a historian at Stony Brook University.John Harley Warner, a historian at Yale, said, “It’s hard for me to think of a…

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Deep below the rugged landscape of central China lies an engineering marvel the size of a 60-story building, boring chunks of hard rock and soil, inch by inch, on a quest to bring water to millions of people. The Jianghan Ping’an Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) began operations earlier this month on January 5th, on what might not only be China’s most ambitious water infrastructure project ever but perhaps the entire world. The Jianghan Ping’an TBM isn’t the biggest TBM ever built and it doesn’t have the largest diameter like the Shanhe TMB, but what it lacks in the world-record-holding department,…

Most of us don’t think about pain until we have it. And when we do, it’s typically something we get over after a few days or weeks. That was my own experience, until the summer of 2023. One day I woke to find that my arms hurt. There was no obvious explanation, nothing I’d done. The pain was intense. I couldn’t do much of anything: drive, cook, type, even sleep. I’d always been a healthy person who did a lot of sports, and I figured this strange pain was just bad luck. But as weeks turned into months, and no…

A 1997 Honda NSR500V sold for $267,607 at Iconic Motorbike Auctions during the 2024 Christmas Rush, and no-one noticed. The $267,607 price surpasses the previous record for a Japanese motorcycle at auction (a Honda RC213V-S at $237,700), and the previous record (a Honda CB750 prototype at $221,600).The 1997 Honda NSR500V that set all the new auction records had been in storage for 20 years and was purchased direct from HRC, unstarted. where it had only ever been used as a stationary display at promotional events in period. Just a few weeks after this bike was uncrated, it became the most…

To overcome that, one main project funded by HEAL is focused on studying the nervous systems of people with chronic pain more directly, in part by recovering malfunctioning dorsal root ganglia and trigeminal nerves from patients undergoing surgery for chronic pain, as well as from cadaveric donors. Those samples are then cultured and examined using a bevy of new technologies — things like proteomics, spatial transcriptomics and metabolomics — to see how they differ from normal tissue. The goal, Gereau explained, is to identify what changes happen at a cellular level when pain becomes chronic, and to create an atlas…

Two months shy of the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, the US has recorded its first human death as a result of avian influenza H5N1 infection. The unidentified Louisiana man contracted the virus through contact with infected wild and domestic birds on his property in December and passed away on January 6.The man, confirmed to be over 65 years old and who had underlying health issues, battled severe respiratory symptoms before succumbing to the virus this week. Fortunately there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission yet, so the pandemic risk remains low – but experts are…