If you live in D.C., you’re this close to the return of in-person panda peeping at the National Zoo. The weather is getting warmer. More people are being vaccinated. And now, in the latest sign of cultural life returning to the country, the Smithsonian announced Friday that it will reopen eight of its Washington-area institutions,…
Hi, guys. Margaux Laskey here filling in again for Em. How’s your week been? Lovely, I hope. A few weeks ago, Jessica Grose, a columnist for NYT Parenting, asked newsletter readers about their best pandemic buys, and I’m curious: What have been your favorite cooking-related purchases in the past year? For me, it’s a tie…
Courtesy of Louis Vuitton Is Louis Vuitton recruiting BTS to its army or does it work in reverse? Announced today, the famed Parisian atelier named the South Korean pop group the newest house ambassadors, and Twitter came to a screeching halt. This marks the first time the entire band is signing on together for a…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent vaccine advisory panel is meeting Friday to review the latest findings about a potential rare side effect that led to a pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine. If the panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, decides that the vaccine’s benefits outweigh…
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.…