Last Friday evening, as drizzle fell on the tarmac, 10 passengers boarded a Gulfstream G4 headed from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Farnborough Airport, just southwest of London. They didn’t seem to notice the plush leather seats or the treats nestled in champagne flutes in the armrests. They also hadn’t particularly enjoyed clambering up…
Highly processed foods have been linked to depression, anxiety and cognitive decline, among other things. Test your knowledge of how to spot them.
By Kyle Beechey For the past six years, the cannabis company Rose has been serving Californians THC in the form of Turkish delight-like edibles in flavors such as Apple Ume Ginger and Rose Hibiscus, partnering with local farms and chefs to release new concoctions on a regular basis. Now that New York has legalized marijuana…
The story, as often happens in science, sounded so appealing. Cells have a molecular clock that determines how long they live. If you can just stop the clock, cells can live indefinitely. And the same should go for people, who are, after all, made from cells. Stop the cell clocks and you can remain youthful.…
This article is part of our Design special section about making the environment a creative partner in the design of beautiful homes. When representatives of Grupo Habita asked the architect Alberto Kalach to design an earth-friendly, energy-efficient hotel along the jungle coast of Oaxaca, he knew he would need a few things in return. The…
THE CHEF MOST often credited with inventing the croquembouche, the French-born confection that towers haughtily over any table it graces, was, unsurprisingly, an architecture enthusiast. Toward the end of the French Revolution, years before he baked the cake for Napoleon Bonaparte’s (second) wedding, Marie-Antoine Carême began an apprenticeship at a patisserie near the Palais Royal.…
This article is part of our Design special section about making the environment a creative partner in the design of beautiful homes. Eleven years ago, Sally Liu, a water-resources engineer, and her husband Bay Chang, then a senior research scientist for Google, bought a 0.84-acre lot for $2.675 million in suburban Hillsborough, Calif. Avid environmentalists…
This article is part of our Design special section about making the environment a creative partner in the design of beautiful homes. Interior design, an art form vulnerable to owners’ changing tastes and the frailties of fabrics and wallpapers, is often appreciated only fleetingly, or in retrospect. Several recent books capture this evanescence in the…
Eating packaged foods like cereal and frozen meals has been associated with anxiety, depression and cognitive decline. Scientists are still piecing together why.
Untangling the problem of duplication in the fashion industry is like trying to rewrap skeins of yarn. Designer houses spend billions fighting dupes, but even real Prada Cleos and Dior Book Totes are made with machines and templates — raising the question of what, exactly, is unique to an authentic bag. Is it simply a…