Abiquiú, New Mexico Photography by Justin Kaneps At the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, a remote abbey beside the Chama River in northern New Mexico, some two dozen Benedictine monks begin their days in darkness. At 3:30 a.m. one Sunday this past winter, a bell summoned the monks to vigils, the night prayer. Under…
Ms. Khemsurov (a contributing editor to T: The New York Times Style Magazine) and Ms. Singer, who stumbled into design as journalists, met while working as editors at I.D., a trade magazine for the industrial design profession that folded in 2010. They began Sight Unseen as a two-person blog, writing and shooting their own material.…
A single subvariant is not gaining all of the new mutations, however. Ben Murrell, a computational biologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and his colleagues are tracking more than 180 Omicron subvariants that have independently gained mutations causing them to grow faster than BA.5. These subvariants are going through a process that Charles Darwin…
Listen. I can be laid back when I have to be. I have been known to wait five or six hours before answering the occasional email. I have at times neglected to shake a towel vigorously before using it, risking unknown vermin latching onto my vulnerable, naked body. So when my husband and I decide…