The New York Sumo Club has grown steadily since its inception, even accounting for hiccups, Mr. Dolan said. The club has about 100 wrestlers, with around 20 regulars. When it first started, members met and grappled on the meadow in Prospect Park

The community built by the club is an inclusive one, where “all body types, all gender expressions” are welcome, said Daniel Robert Douglas, the club’s vice president

At the Gecko Gallery NYC there are New Caledonian giant geckos, psychedelic rock geckos, monkey-tailed skinks, giant leaf-tailed geckos, peacock day geckos, and even a tiny juvenile (although almost fully grown) carpet chameleon that can easily curl up on your fingertip — just to name a few

Geckos are diverse, funny little creatures. They’re also very old. One expert told me they’ve been around since before dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

Traditional Chinese medicine boomed over the last two decades. Most shops and practitioners are small, operating on slim margins. Trump’s tariffs threaten both that growth and consumers’ access to this type of health care

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Baby’s first bread 🍞

The agnosticism leaving my body when my mom tells me not to worry because my grandma is in god’s hands and those of her doctors

My 91-year-old grandma has covid. This woman is my soul, my whole heart. The rage I feel at every public health decision that failed her is indescribable

Retrieving a code to log back into whatever account for the millionth time