Good morning. “Roti is one of the world’s most ubiquitous and shape-shifting foods,” Priya Krishna writes in The New York Times this week, “a round, unleavened bread of uncertain origin that has spread around the world, changing every time it reaches a new country, region or even household.” Priya charted the “the simple wheat-flour-and-water versions…
Marva and Myriam Babel spent much of the past few years thinking about the concept of a space, especially how to sustain one in a gentrifying borough. Now that they have a new one, a membership club in Brooklyn called Babel Loft, they have been mulling over how to fill it. The main area, a…
The News An Oxford University researcher and her team showed that digital wearable devices can track the progression of Parkinson’s disease in an individual more effectively than human clinical observation can, according to a newly published paper. By tracking more than 100 metrics picked up by the devices, researchers were able to discern subtle changes…
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Netflix has a new most popular show. “Beckham,” which was released Oct. 4, is a splashy four-part documentary series about one of the most famous footballers of all time. In the series, David Beckham now 48, charts his journey from working-class obscurity in south London to a young star at Manchester United, captain of the…
When they look at Hunter Biden, many Americans don’t like what they see — and not just because of the images of the president’s 53-year-old son in the midst of wild-eyed benders, which were leaked from his laptop and published online, first piecemeal and then in a massive batch in June. Mr. Biden was indicted…