It’s known as fight or flight — the message the brain sends your body when it detects something frightening. Something like it happens to plants when they are under attack, too. And then there are fungi — perhaps the most mysterious kingdom of multicellular life. Fungi too can sense attackers and manufacture powerful weapons to…
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Most Important Photo Ever Neither of us wanted to be at our high school reunion. I was worried I would have to retell the story of my high school sweetheart’s death to pancreatic cancer over and over. He was recently separated after years of being in an unhappy marriage. We didn’t know each other in…
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If you’re going to celebrate cupid’s favorite holiday then you might as well lean into all the sacchrine sweet paraphernalia it has to offer. Because for some, «Pay my rent for Valentine’s Day» just doesn’t have off up the same whiff of romance. Here, 10 gifts that are doused in hearts, littered in roses, and…
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Headliner Empellón Al Pastor There is a taco turnaround in the Pod 39 Hotel. What was Salvation Taco is now under the management of Alex Stupak of Empellón, Taqueria and Al Pastor. (Mr. Stupak took over Salvation Taco last year after April Bloomfield and Ken Friedman, who ran the restaurant, left amid a sexual harassment…
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When he’s stumped or in a quandary, Humberto Leon often asks himself, “What would Wendy do?” It’s a question he has posed any number of times since founding Opening Ceremony, the outpost of alternative style that he runs with Carol Lim. Wendy, as it happens, is Wendy Leon, Mr. Leon’s mother — a dynamo, who,…
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The era of the lavish book party, like the golden age of glossy magazines, is mostly in the past. Like fading neutron stars, both collided last week at the Waverly Inn, the clubby restaurant in the West Village. Graydon Carter, an owner of the Waverly and the former editor of Vanity Fair, hosted a cocktail…
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Sphen and Magic, two male penguins at the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium, looked after an egg when a heterosexual penguin couple wasn’t up to the task. The 3-month-old chick will be called Sphengic until it gets a permanent name.
Most American New Year’s resolutions focus on how to eat less food. Mine are trained on ways to consume more. More dinner parties! More tackling of recipes that have been sitting in a manila folder since before my now college-age child was born! More late-to-the-party Instant Pot cooking! More fear-facing: I will master bone broth!…
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Image Most scientists agree that genetically modified organisms, or G.M.O.s, are safe to eat. But a new study suggests that the people who are most extremely opposed to them know the least about them. Researchers surveyed 501 randomly selected adults, testing their knowledge of G.M.O.s with a series of true/false questions — for example, the…
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Dated was the word one friend used after going to Benno, and if you’ve eaten there, too, you’ll know why. It’s as if the past 15 years in food never happened. The menu seems to be stuck in some time between 1994, when Thomas Keller bought the French Laundry, and 2004, when he opened Per…
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