LAT health writer to NYT

Benedict Carey is leaving the L.A. Times to write about psychology and human behavior for the NYT's weekly Science Times section. He follows by a bit more than two months the former LAT features editor Rick Flaste, who returned to the New York Times as an associate editor over the science section. The move could affect the top editor lineup at another L.A. editorial operation: Carey's wife, Victoria von Biel, is the executive editor of Bon Appétit.