MINNEAPOLIS — When Raghavan Iyer was a young graduate with a chemistry degree trying to decide what to do with his life, he went to the United States Consulate in his native Mumbai and flipped through college catalogs. It was one of those moments in life when one decision changes everything. He picked a small…
Paul Berg, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who ushered in the era of genetic engineering in 1971 by successfully combining DNA from two different organisms, died on Wednesday at his home on the Stanford University campus in California. He was 96. His death was announced by the Stanford School of Medicine. After his breakthrough with DNA,…
When Celeste Polanco amassed 100,000 followers on TikTok, she started thinking about money. “I knew I was in the position to get brand deals,” said Ms. Polanco, a lifestyle content creator in Brooklyn. “I just didn’t know anything about the business side of things.” So Ms. Polanco, 30, was intrigued when a representative of the…
The Joan Mitchell Foundation sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Paris headquarters of Louis Vuitton on Tuesday, alleging the fashion brand had used the artist’s paintings in handbag advertisements after her nonprofit organization repeatedly declined to give its approval. Mitchell, who died in 1992, is considered one of the great abstract artists of the postwar…
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Moncler closed out London Fashion Week with a bang—specifically, “The Art of Genius,” a groundbreaking, immersive, experience-driven event incorporating Pharrell Williams, Salehe Bembury, Rick Owens, Mercedes-Benz, Palm Angels, FRGMT, Adidas Originals, and Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, plus a headline performance from Grammy-winning artist Alicia Keys. The 10,000-guest, public-facing show took over London’s Kensington Olympia stadium, which,…
For Peter and Christy Tiboris, like so many others, the pandemic provided the push they needed to do something they’d long contemplated: leave Manhattan for the suburbs. Since marrying in 2013, the couple had bounced around various New York City rentals, taking on more space each time they had a child. By 2020, they had…
Dear Tripped Up, Last May, my wife and I were headed from New York to Valencia, Spain, via Munich, when the first leg of our Lufthansa flight was delayed, causing us to miss our connection. The Munich airport was a chaotic scene of passengers trying to rebook, but we eventually got a flight to Palma…
LONDON — The air in the big black tent in the middle of Kennington Park, South London, was thick with expectations. They oozed around the benches, covered in plaid blankets, that snaked through the space; bathed the guests in a nervous glow as they clutched the hot water bottles left on each seat. Even the…
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — On a quiet street corner, a sign marks the birthplace of a beverage behemoth: Here, in 1954, the Tri-City Beverage Corporation bottled its first case of Mountain Dew. The soda was originally uncolored and lemon-lime flavored, and its inventors used it as a mixer with bourbon. “Mountain dew” is also a…