Víctor Manuel Ramos
@vmramos.bsky.social
Journalist and writer; arranger of words. Interested in the human story. Editing breaking news and features at The New York Times. Periodista y escritor; arreglador de palabras. Me interesa el relato humano. Neoyorquino.
Usually, spikes of excess deaths are recorded in the winter, when respiratory viruses circulate. But during the week of the June heat wave, there were more excess deaths than in any week last winter. @nytimes.com
In One Week During Europe’s Record Heat Wave, Deaths Increased by 16,000
Deaths spiked in northwest Europe in June, where countries were unprepared for extreme heat that hit much of the continent.
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The royal decree he approved in April provides temporary and renewable legal status to undocumented immigrants who have lived in Spain for the last five months and have no criminal record. @pbsnews.org
A look at Spain's plan to give undocumented migrants legal status
Spain is at the center of the global immigration debate. Left-wing Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has enacted a plan aimed at giving legal status to undocumented immigrants. But last month, tens of thou...
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“Sound helps us visualize something that is otherwise imperceptible.” @nytimes.com
It’s the Summer of Soundwalking. He Is Your Sherpa.
“We may be hearing but not listening,” Jacek Smolicki said, showing a reporter how sound travels through tree roots in Central Park and amplifying the scraping of aquatic snails.
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Don't allow anyone to tell you that a day spent exploring used bookstores, greenhouses, libraries, cafés, and bakeries "doesn't classify" as self-care.
They viciously snapped, not only at each other’s disembowelments, but like flexible bows, bent round, and bit their own
While Cubans are clearly suffering after the United States blocked the country's oil imports, they are also doing what perhaps they do best: adapting. @jacknicas.bsky.social in @nytimes.com
Cuba, Lacking Fuel, Relies on Ingenuity to Defy Trump’s Blockade
President Trump has tried to strangle Cuba by blocking its oil imports. But six months later, the island is finding ways to endure.
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It’s common for people in a vulnerable state after a breakup to find their social media feeds awash in such content. @nytimes.com
Why TikTok’s Algorithm Keeps You Trapped in a Breakup Loop
As social media companies face scrutiny over addictive design features, mental health experts cite a stream of breakup content as an example of the failure to protect users.
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But flukes! man, what makes thee want to go a whaling, eh?
"Now, the U.S. is on track to have the fewest inspections on record since 2011, except during the global pandemic."
ProPublica@propublica.org · 4w agoLast July, the Trump administration quietly scaled back the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, also known as FoodNet, shrinking the required surveillance to just two pathogens. One of the pathogens they made optional for states to report: the parasite Cyclospora. (Published Nov. 2025)
"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaians..." There's a lot of interest in “The Odyssey” because of the movie, but I am going back to "The Iliad," where Homer's epic started.
Although Homer’s tale was not inspired by a real Odysseus, historians say, it did immortalize a vanished era of gritty Bronze Age chieftains who raided overseas, ruled enormous stone citadels and controlled wide trade networks from 1700 to 1050 B.C. @nytimes.com
Odysseus Wasn’t Real. But He Had Real Worshipers in Ancient Ithaca.
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The sky becomes a background without features in this summer evening of smog over buildings in Queens, New York.
there is no earthly way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks like
“If I form an opinion, and there are books saying the opposite, I need to read them all, to know if I’m justified,” he continued. “If I’m not convinced, I should let my conviction go.” @nytimes.com
Too Many Books?
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A dangerous sign for me, outside a small bookstore at the Dallas Farmers Market. I almost walked away with a nicely bound edition of “Moby Dick,” even though I already have it.
A one minute exposure of clouds moving over Colpoy's Bay, Ontario at dawn for the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Wide #BrucePeninsula #BruceCounty #ECK #photography #TenMinutesFromHome #GettingBackToBasics #LongExposureProject #ManualFocus #ManualExposure #PhotoHour #StormHour
Immigrants in the United States: Melting pot, tapestry, mosaic, kaleidoscope, salad bowl. Every cliché is true. @nytimes.com
How a Nation of Immigrants Traces Its Roots
Melting pot, tapestry, mosaic, kaleidoscope, salad bowl. Every cliché is true.
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A map showing how people in the United States identify their ancestry or family origin. @nytimes.com
An American Mosaic
This map shows how people in the United States identify their ancestry or family origin. Explore the many ways we describe our heritage and ourselves.
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As night fell, the entire neighborhood of Corona would be transformed into an endless block party. @nytimes.com
Ecuador vs. Mexico Divided This Neighborhood. But Only for 90 Minutes.
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it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life
“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote. @nytimes.com
Live Updates: Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Effort to End Birthright Citizenship
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The adversity they faced didn’t keep them from living authentic lives — or from helping others to do so. @nytimes.com
L.G.B.T.Q. Figures Who Shaped History From the Margins
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“Part of it is knowing you can’t grab everything but doing the best you can,” said Mr. Alvarado, who was assigned to cover the Knicks’ championship parade in Lower Manhattan on Thursday. @nytimes.com #NY
A Photographer’s View From a Magical Basketball Ride in New York
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The research team found that the patterns of brain activity were roughly the same whether bilingual participants looked at Spanish or English words. @nytimes.com
How Does One Brain Speak Two Languages?
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“Reading is discovering one's own riches and one's own possibilities through the words of others.” (Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz) Art: Edward Hopper 1882-1967 American realism painter. “Reader on the Train,” 1965.
