Felt is back and has gone way beyond elementary school name-tags with “Fashioning Felt,” an illuminating exhibition of around 70 items — mostly furnishings and garments — at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Felt’s purely artistic possibilities are also being explored in scattered shows at New York galleries. The above photo is from “Bold as Love,” a show of the work of the young artist Adam Parker Smith that can be seen 24/7 at…

Remember the feeling of dizziness from spinning on tire swings? NPR recently reported on a condition called paroxysmal positional vertigo, or BPPV, where patients feel the tire-swing bouts of dizziness for long periods of time. Experts who treat dizziness estimate that about 20 percent of all dizziness is due to loose crystals — or ear rocks — in the inner ear. As the rocks roll around in the canal, the brain senses that the head…

     Felt is back and has gone way beyond elementary school name-tags with “Fashioning Felt,” an illuminating exhibition of around 70 items — mostly furnishings and garments — at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Felt’s purely artistic possibilities are also being explored in scattered shows at New York galleries. The above photo is from “Bold as Love,” a show of the work of the young artist Adam Parker Smith that can be seen 24/7 at…

Remember the feeling of dizziness from spinning on tire swings? NPR recently reported on a condition called paroxysmal positional vertigo, or BPPV, where patients feel the tire-swing bouts of dizziness for long periods of time. Experts who treat dizziness estimate that about 20 percent of all dizziness is due to loose crystals — or ear rocks — in the inner ear. As the rocks roll around in the canal, the brain senses that the head…