Cari Shane

Frigid temps and frosty conditions don’t mean you have to let your two-wheeler hibernate until spring. Sarah Zoey Sturm, a professional off-road cyclist who lives in Durango and frequently trains during the mountain town’s snowiest season, says the tricks to riding during winter are tweaking your gear and staying alert on the road.
1. No matter the bike—mountain, gravel, road, or hybrid—u...

On a 95-degree day in one of Washington, D.C.’s poorest neighborhoods, Montia Austin makes her way into a wooded area near a busy intersection. Wearing work gloves and a yellow safety vest, she’s on the side of a six-lane road that feels like a highway as cars and trucks speed past her to catch a green light ahead.
She’s there to pick up strewn trash: glass and plastic bottles, some full, some empty; fast food containers; beer cans and candy wrappers; canisters filled with flammable liquids; ...

For the past six ski seasons, I’ve dog sat for a retired couple I met during an 11-minute gondola ride at Keystone Resort in Colorado. I had stopped for a few runs while on my way to catch a flight home after my first official dog sit near Beaver Creek Resort using the travel app TrustedHouse sitters.com (THS). Always one to chat on a ski lift, I told the couple about my dog sitting ways. Turns out, the Rubins’ son was getting married in Mexico and they were looking for a dog sitter for their...

The birth of a cloned black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann, and her two new sisters, has sparked a new pilot program to preserve the tissues of hundreds of endangered species “just in case”
Elizabeth Ann just became a triplet—at three years old.
This black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes)—the first endangered species in the U.S. to ever be successfully cloned—was joined late last year by her genetically identical baby sisters Antonia and Noreen, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser...

With skins on her Alpine Touring (AT) skis and about 35 pounds on her back, Ann Kampf of Silverthorne, Colorado, trekked away from the resorts in Summit County, Colorado. She was wearing a bespeckled tutu around her waist because, “why not! It’s fun and festive!” says Kampf.
The 73-year old was headed into the White River National Forest for a few nights in a hut with 16 others ranging in age from 55 to 78. The removable skins on her skis gripped the snow as she climbed up Bald Mountain on ma...

A new TikTok trend involves taking Pepcid AC to relieve symptoms of premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD.
PMDD can lead to extreme mental symptoms like lasting anger and sadness, as well as typical premenstrual symptoms like bloating and headaches.
While TikTokers say that Pepcid can alleviate these symptoms, experts said there's little research backing up this claim.
There’s an unexpected solution for severe premenstrual symptoms, according to some TikTok users: taking the common heartbu...

Benjamin Fernandes’ goal for the fintech startup he launched in 2018, NALA, was to speed up money transfers within his native Tanzania.
It now operates in nearly a dozen African countries, providing African ex-pats working in the US and 20 European countries with a more affordable way to send money home. Last year alone, those outside Africa spent $8 billion in transfer fees. Africa remains the most expensive continent in which to send money.
In July, despite a depressed fintech market, NALA’...

Food
But he’s most proud of how he runs his restuarant – with the mental health of his staff front and center
May 31, 2024
When Angel Barreto was 31 and working 16-hour days as an executive sous chef, he had a mental breakdown. At the time, he was at Wolfgang Puck’s now-shuttered DC restaurant, The Source. Each night, Barreto would arrive home from the restaurant at 2 am only to turn around and be back at 9:30 the following morning. He said his burnout was less about the hours and more “a res...

In regulation heels and a skirt, O’Connell helped pave the way for the modern era of policing.

Last week in Washington, D.C., cybersecurity experts and executives from the worlds of energy, telecommunications and finance gathered in a workspace overlooking the White House to fight off a real-time cyberattack. Fingers flew over keyboards as experts rushed to stop an attack that threatened to crash multiple networks at the same time.

Their pulses were pounding, but never fear — this time the attack was just an exercise. In fact, the attack was being launched by security experts from thos...

Alyssa Katz started doing stand-up comedy three years ago at the age 60. “It’s never too late,” says the retired lawyer who passed the California bar in 1987, the Quebec bar in ‘95, and the New York bar this April. “I liked studying for the bar, I like law, but I like this a lot,” she says of her comedy work. “Most of my comedy comes from processing the world at my age,” she says. “I think everyone should incorporate joy and laughter in their life.”
After age 50, it may sometimes feel we are ...

Jessica got an alarming call from a friend this past April. Jessica, whose name has been changed to protect her and her friend’s privacy, hadn’t seen or talked to him in a few years. He was audibly drunk, says the 29-year-old who lives in New York City; he told her he was going to kill himself. She called 988 three different times in two hours, and each time a different person told her to hang up and call 911.
Sixty-year-old Scott says that during the wee hours of the night, when he is suicid...

For more than 35 years, unidentified anomalous phenomena have been part of Lisa Tsering’s life. While the more familiar term is UFO (unidentified flying object), UAP started making its way into our vernacular a few decades ago. First defined as “unidentified aerial phenomena,” about two years ago it was changed to “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” a shift that allowed for the inclusion of a larger swath of undefinable sightings, including those underwater.
“It sounds weird but I don’t care ...

Janet Humphrey and Scott Dazey were on their way from Leavenworth, Washington, to their home in Bend, Oregon, when they decided that rather than arriving in the wee hours of the morning, the smart choice would be to stop for the night. With Dazey behind the wheel, Humphrey grabbed her phone and reserved a parking spot for their 24-foot RV at a winery 20 minutes away from where they were, in Washington’s Yakima Valley. Within minutes of pulling into Severino Cellars, Humphrey, 78, says the own...

Katie Aldworth grabs an empty wine bottle, puts it into a glass crusher, and then walks through her Maryland pottery studio with the end product: glass sand. After measuring out 275 grams, she pours the pulverized glass into a mold and bakes it in her kiln.
It sounds simple, but it’s taken her nearly three months to figure out how to turn used wine bottles into glass plates. When Aldworth pulls one from the kiln, a little light pops through. The color, she says, is “seaweed. It couldn’t be mo...