WASHINGTON (AP) – “Exercise your brain,” experts advise people hoping to stave off dementia. But how? Stretching your brain might be the better description.Do a crossword puzzle a day and you may just get good at crosswords. Instead, research increasingly shows that a variety of habits and hobbies are like a cognitive workout.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Most of America “springs forward” Sunday for daylight saving time. Losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day; it also could harm your health.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Imagine dining on “edible plastic” made from algae and collagen from fish skins. While you ingest the dish, ocean-borne plastic pollution seemingly floats above you, projected across the restaurant’s huge domed ceiling. It’s an experience – and dish – inspired by large garbage patches found in our seas.
PARIS (AP) – Oprah Winfrey settled into the front row beside her longtime friend Gayle King at Thursday’s Paris Fashion Week Chloé show, as the VIP guests hobnobbed before phone cameras were raised and the room leaned in.
When I think of Hawaii, I think of coconut trees softly swaying above white beaches with big blue waves crashing against the shore, and I think of the many days I spent swimming and drying off in the sun while eating pineapple. I have tried to capture these feelings with this pie from my cookbook “50 Pies, 50 States.”
PARIS (AP) – Ten horses – five black, five white – entered the sand ring first. The models came second. That told you everything you needed to know about designer Stella McCartney ‘s priorities at Paris Fashion Week. The British-American designer staged her Winter 2026 show Wednesday inside a riding hall in the Bois de Boulogne.
AMSTERDAM (AP) – Megan Worthy still recalls singing in a choir in the Australian capital, Canberra, as she was growing up. Now, as a rare form of early-onset dementia chips away at her vision and other brain functions, the 58-year-old and her daughter, Bronte, sing together with other people with neurological conditions.
PARIS (AP) – The sun was out over the glass-walled runway at the famed Tuileries Garden in the French capital on Tuesday, flooding Jonathan Anderson ‘s fall-winter 2026 collection for Dior with a golden light that invoked Impressionist paintings.
NEW YORK (AP) – Apple CEO Tim Cook promised a “big week” of product announcements has seen the introduction of a new budget-friendly iPhone trim, an entry-level Macbook tier, updated iPad Air models, refreshed monitors and higher-end chipsets. All of which was on display at hands-on media events held Wednesday in New York, London and Shanghai.
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