There are few culinary joys equal to biting into the still-warm crust of a puff pastry tart. The way those crisp yet airy layers shatter into crumbs always makes me giddy with wonder: How can butter be so light and feathery? How can air be this rich and crunchy? If you have an exacting nature,…
With the New York charity circuit on hiatus, here is how some philanthropists and society figures are spending their time and resources during the pandemic. Nikki Haskell Age: 79 Occupation: talk show host, party planner, diet and fitness entrepreneur Favorite charities: Nancy Davis Race to Erase MS, Angel Ball, Carousel of Hope, Project Angel Food…
Without hospitals or medical specialists in space, NASA and other space agencies have always been concerned about astronauts falling sick during a mission. To minimize the chances of that, they typically spend the two weeks before launch in quarantine. A Covid-19 superspreader event at the space station would disrupt operations. The interior of the space…
The high end, however, also sees opportunities. Tiffany & Company, for example, has used parametric design and additive manufacturing to create prototypes at its three-year-old Jewelry Design and Innovation Workshop (J.D.I.W.), a 17,000-square-foot facility around the corner from the company’s corporate headquarters in Manhattan’s Flatiron district. “We have these brilliant designers and merchants who have…
One of the lesser-known facts about Robert Mapplethorpe is that, before gaining fame as a photographer, he experimented with jewelry. About a decade ago the jewelry designer Gaia Repossi learned about that connection after she bought a Mapplethorpe photograph of a palm tree, titled “Puerto Rico, 1981,” at a small show curated by the director…
With economics and industrial engineering degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford, and a decade working at Tesla, the electric-car company where her husband was a co-founder, Boryana Straubel had long set her sights on the technology revolutions spawned in and around Silicon Valley. Batteries and solar energy were firmly on her radar.…
And it pays off. “On average, people’s disability is cut in half,” Dr. Szanton said. “Their pain decreases. Their ability to bathe and dress improves. People stuck on the second floor of their houses for years can go on family trips.” CAPABLE reduced Medicaid spending and could create Medicare savings as well. Participants reported that…
In the United States, flights are filling up, hotels are getting booked, vacation rentals are selling out and car rental companies are facing a shortage because of spiking demand. But one sector remains stalled: the cruise industry. Cruise ships sailing out of United States ports have been docked for more than a year following a…
Lisa Vedernikova divides her personal history into two eras: “Before Harry” and “After Harry.” Before Harry, she kept her life mostly to herself, prioritizing her work, she said, often at the expense of her social life. After Harry, she began to find joy in everyday acts, like making dinner. Come evening, she might choose a…
In a pandemic landscape where big weddings still don’t make sense to many, the wedding that Angela Horan and Gary Bergstrom put on March 20 at their seven-acre property in Myakka, Fla., did to them, somehow. Though at the time, Floridians were being encouraged not to gather in groups of more than 10, Ms. Horan…