On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published a landmark paper in Nature, proposing the double helix as the long elusive structure of DNA, a discovery that a decade later earned the men the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In the final paragraph of the paper, they acknowledged that they had been…
SAN FRANCISCO — Early Sunday morning, Kevon Looney of the Golden State Warriors decamped to a quiet atrium on the fourth floor of Chase Center, where floor-to-ceiling windows offered an expansive view of San Francisco Bay. The sun was beginning to burn through a hazy sky as Looney propped his iPad against a small metal…
Some of the best food in New York City can be found along the No. 7 train line in Queens: crisp-edged samosas in Jackson Heights, tart aguachile in Elmhurst and rice rolls slicked with chile oil in Flushing. Now, directly below the 103rd Street-Corona Plaza station, you can find tripa mishqui from Ecuador, guisado from…
At Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles in mid-April, Lynda McGee, one of the school’s college counselors, checked her paper shredder. She needed to make sure it had the optimal effect: loud, obnoxious and finite. Soon, her high school seniors would parade into the room clutching rejection letters from colleges across the nation, and…
Functionality is important in a foyer or entry hall: You need somewhere to put down your packages and keys, take off your shoes and hang up your jacket. But there’s something else that matters just as much. Whether you have a proper foyer or not, the entry to your home is the first space you…
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Not long into the pandemic, Americans were eager to tip their front-line-working baristas and servers. But now that tip fatigue has set in — driven by the proliferation of payment tablets that suggest tipping for everything from a sandwich at a grab-and-go counter to an ultrasound — consumers are often bewildered by when and how…
Just 3 percent of all Covid-19 vaccine doses delivered in 2021 went to Africa, home to a fifth of the world’s population, according to the World Health Organization. In the vast debacle of global vaccine inequity, it was Africa that was left furthest behind as the pandemic raged, and that had the least leverage to…
Traditional and inventive dishes will be prepared by five Indigenous chefs for New York City Eatss, a benefit and tasting to support the American Indian College Fund, on May 2. The chefs are Ben Jacobs (Osage Nation), Andrea Murdoch (Andes region, from Venezuela), Bradley Dry (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), Sherry Pocknett (Mashpee Wampanoag Nation), and…
Zendaya, because she surprised everyone during Labrinth’s set on weekend two. And because of the way her lace-up over-the-knee black dominatrix boots put a spike in her sweet pink slip dress. This rose has thorns. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Coachella