Marion Renault

2 weeks ago | theopennotebook.com | Marion Renault

Read in EnglishEste artículo fue traducido por Inés Gutiérrez Jaber y editado por Rodrigo Pérez Ortega. Idealmente, Emily Ong querría ser entrevistada en su cocina. Es allí donde se siente más cómoda, donde interactúa con el aroma y la textura, el peso del cuchillo en su palma, el brillo del aceite caliente, el ritmo que tiene cortar, remover, degustar.

2 weeks ago | theopennotebook.com | Marion Renault

Léelo en EspañolIdeally, Emily Ong would be interviewed in her kitchen. This is where she feels most comfortable, where she engages with scent and texture, the weight of a knife in her palm, the shimmer of hot oil, the rhythm of slicing, stirring, tasting. A dementia advocate who lives in Singapore, Ong was diagnosed with young-onset Alzheimer’s in 2017 (she was later reassessed as having mild cognitive impairment, which raises the risk of dementia).

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Marion Renault

It took 14 men to restrain José Arcadio Buendía at the height of his delirium, and 20 more to drag and tie him to a chestnut tree. The patriarch of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude would remain tethered there until his death, “discolored by sun and rain” as he sank into an “abyss of unawareness.”Decades after the publication of the classic Colombian novel, Francisco Piedrahita came across similar scenes while growing up in the country’s mountainous Antioquia region.

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Marion Renault |Cheney Orr

In Starr County, Texas, near the state’s southern tip along the U.S.-Mexico border, escaping dementia can feel impossible. The condition affects about one in five adults on Medicare—more than double the national rate. “Everybody has somebody in their family” with dementia, Gladys Maestre, a neuroepidemiologist who studies aging at the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley, told me. For Jessica Cantú, it was her father, Tomas. He asked her, his eldest daughter, never to put him in a nursing home.

Sep 26, 2024 | popsci.com | Marion Renault

There can be such thing as too much weed.