In this series for T, Emily Spivack, the author of “Worn Stories,” interviews creative types about their most prized possessions. Here, the founder of Chez Panisse, pioneer of the slow-food movement and prolific author Alice Waters explains what has prompted her to collect café au lait bowls for nearly 50 years. Waters will be at…
In a laboratory at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the mice are seeing things. And it’s not because they’ve been given drugs. With new laser technology, scientists have triggered specific hallucinations in mice by switching on a few neurons with beams of light. The researchers reported the results on Thursday in the journal Science.…
Rick Owens. Valentino. Marc Jacobs. Some of fashion’s biggest names have collaborated with Birkenstock of late. And the latest linkup comes not from a designer, but from a fashion insider: Marie-Louise Sciò, the hotelier behind Il Pellicano. You might have glimpsed its signature yellow-and-white-striped towels on Instagram, but the property predates the era of the…
Lodestone, a naturally-occurring iron oxide, was the first persistently magnetic material known to humans. The Han Chinese used it for divining boards 2,200 years ago; ancient Greeks puzzled over why iron was attracted to it; and, Arab merchants placed it in bowls of water to watch the magnet point the way to Mecca. In modern…
What causes uterine fibroids, and why do they (sometimes) cause unusually heavy bleeding? — Kristin Estabrook from Boston [Have a question about women’s health? Ask Dr. Gunter yourself.] Short Take Uterine fibroids, known medically as leiomyomas, are benign growths of uterine muscle. Genetics, race, hormones and previous pregnancies can all have a role in creating…
The summer day camp at our local Y.M.C.A. is in session. Recently, I saw a teenage counselor lead a line of preschool boys into the locker room to change for their swim lesson. They were like an adorable row of ducklings! Then I saw an older man — a friendly looking, grandfatherly type — take…
In Peru, a warique is a humble, steadfastly unsleek restaurant, where you might eat crouched on a plastic chair at a shared table, without formality or comfort, and be glad. Warique, in Jackson Heights, Queens, is more handsome and polished, with mirrors in sunburst frames and a long banquette amenable to lingering. But to Jimmy…
Sicily, like the rest of Italy, has long been known as red wine territory. Yet slowly, the whites of Sicily, particularly those grown in the foothills of Mount Etna, have been earning attention as among the most distinctive and unusual white wines in Italy, if not the world. What makes them so different? These are…
The way Noam Grossman sees it, he’s not just another guy selling just another New York slice. “At the end of the day, yes, it’s still a slice of pizza,” said Mr. Grossman, 28, speaking like someone who knows he’s onto something good yet doesn’t want to boast. “But out of all the slices of…
Between Amazon Prime Day and Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale, no one’s credit cards are safe from the influx of sales this week. But I regret (not really) to inform you and your wallet that there’s one more sale to add to the list—and it’s a BIG one. Rent the Runway’s seasonal online sample sale starts today…