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Medically Reviewed More than 90 percent of COVID-19 patients lose their sense of taste and smell at least temporarily. iStock; Everyday Health Wedding cake designer Todd Kennedy had no idea what lay ahead when he came down with COVID-19 in March 2020. His symptoms were relatively mild soar throat, fatigue, a heavy feeling in his chest. Plus, to his dismay, he lost his ability to taste and smell. Almost a year later, his taste buds still aren’t functioning, he says, though his sense of smell is slowly coming back. “Everyone takes for granted things like taste and smell,” says Kennedy, 42, who runs the New York City–based Todd Kennedy Cakes. But in the aftermath of COVID-19, he adds, “the simple pleasures are gone.” ....
Bridget R. Cooks. (Photo by Evelina Pentchev.) This article is part of a series of conversations with scholars engaged with Black art for Black History Month. See also Folasade Ologundudu’s interviews with Richard J. Powell, Darby English, and Sarah Lewis.
In her much-discussed 2011 book, Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum, Cooks looked at the ways that museums have perpetuated racial inequity through the presentation and curation of African American and African diaspora artists. Her account started with the very first show in America featuring African American artists, at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1927, and continued into the 21st century with the reception of figures including the Gee’s Bend quilters. ....
United States 1864-S Seated Liberty Quarter San Francisco and along the West Coast were handling a rarity in the mid-1860s. As their counterparts in the east were vanishing from circulation during the Civil War, silver coins in San Francisco were circulating much more extensively – including the 1864-S Seated Liberty quarter, which turned out to be a major rarity. Consumers might have known that the freshly-struck quarters were prized in the east for their silver content but might not have suspected that, decades later, the coins would be sought-after by collectors interested in their scarcity, not their precious metal. The new branch mint began striking silver quarters and half dollars in 1855 ....
By Donald Jeffries One of the most surprising parts of the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief bill signed in late December 2020 was a decree giving U.S. intelligence agencies until June 25, 2021 to reveal all their information about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). The Office of Naval Intelligence’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and the FBI will be required to provide “a detailed analysis of UFO data and intelligence” and “identify any national security threats posed by UFOs.” The CIA, meanwhile, has released its “Black Vault” UFO documents online, on a website run by author and podcaster John Greenwald Jr. “Research by The Black Vault will continue to see if there are additional documents still uncovered within the CIA’s holdings,” Greenwald declared. Blasting the agency, Greenwald noted, “The CIA has made it incredibly difficult to use their records in a reasonable manner. In my opinion, this outdated format makes it very difficult for p ....