This is Choire Sicha’s final column as your Work Friend. You’ll have a new friend next week. Isn’t that just like you. Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to his successor workfriend@nytimes.com. Include your name and location, even if you want them withheld. Letters may be edited. Drunk at Work I…
Naomi Mishkin Age: 30 Hometowns: Manhattan and Tenafly, N.J. Now lives: In a garden apartment on a brownstone-lined block in Harlem. Claim to fame: Naomi Mishkin is an artist and budding fashion designer, whose work frequently takes everyday objects and subverts them with a clever, feminist-skewed twist. In a 2017 piece called “Pedestal (Dress Form),”…
New research on nanoparticles in food has yielded fresh insights about their impact on gut bacteria. Nanoparticles may influence gut bacteria (which are shown here under the electron microscope). Researchers from the University Medical Center of Mainz in Germany and colleagues from other centers in Germany, Austria, and the United States have discovered that the…
I collect chile condiments the way my grandmother collected miniature porcelain baskets of flowers, all lined up in perpetual bloom on every flat surface of her living room. Open my fridge, and you’ll see a similar display: this one, of jars and bottles vying to be smeared over avocado toast, roast chicken or buttered, jammy…
The New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams kick off Super Bowl LIII on Sunday at 6:30 p.m., Eastern time. Whatever jersey you’re wearing, you’re going to need food to sustain you through the thrilling triumph or the agonizing defeat. And for those of you just showing up for the snacks, we’ve got you…
Image Wendy MacNaughton is a graphic journalist based in San Francisco. You can find her via website and Instagram. More ‘Meanwhile’ Wendy MacNaughton’s illustrated column about the big implications of seemingly small things. How Californians Are Breathing in the ‘New Abnormal’ of Epic Fires An illustrated look at the face masks that are now everywhere…
Global cruise lines are rolling out new technology to help servers deliver cocktails to passengers who have wandered off, address travelers by name on ships carrying thousands of passengers and shrink the boarding process to 10 minutes from one hour. The companies say they are using technology to reduce the most common passenger complaints and…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. “NO CRIMINAL CHARGES TO BE FILED IN DEATH OF WORK RELEASE INMATE” It was the headline of a news release issued by the prosecutor’s office in Elkhart County, Ind., on an October morning last year.…
Courtesy of Savage X Fenty Rihanna is getting in the subscription box game. On Thursday night she took to Instagram to announce the launch of Savage X Fenty‘s new XTRA VIP box with an adorable video of her dressed in head-to-toe Savage X Fenty and a face full of Fenty Beauty goodies. I’m sure she…
Katherine Leon was 38 and living in Alexandria, Va., when she gave birth to her second son in 2003. She was discharged from the hospital, but instead of getting better, she recalls, she kept feeling “worse and worse and worse.” Five weeks after she had her child, Ms. Leon’s husband came back early from work…