The newly discovered millipede Eumillepes Persephone actually has more than 1,000 legs. But a mille crèpes cake? Not so many layers. The cake is the signature of Lady M, a confectioner with boutiques in New York and other cities in the United States and China; this year they’re making one covered and layered with red…
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A new double-sided mixing spoon expands the definition of all-purpose by having a handle that widens into a convenient tasting spoon. Made from a solid piece of sustainable teak, it’s one of a new wardrobe of tools sold by Sur La Table: a cook’s spoon, a larger shallow spoon and a strainer spoon, each $19.…
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With a supply of frozen Chinese dumplings on hand you’re armed for last-minute hors d’oeuvres with a drink, appetizers for dinner and fortification for a big bowl of soup to satisfy a craving. Fly by Jing now offers two kinds of half-moon dumplings, made in California, that can be steamed or pan-fried straight from the…
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Ilex Studio, in London, is best known for creating glass containers designed to encourage avocado pits and acorns to sprout. Now, for the winter table, the studio has introduced handmade beeswax candles cast from leafless tree branches. They come in nine woodsy colors, four of which are now sold in the United States at Paper…
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Don’t count Explorer Cold Brew from Brooklyn as just one more in a long list of companies with ready-made cold brew concentrates for iced or hot drinks. It offers a compelling, uncommon feature with its coffees: choice of caffeine content. No-caf, low-caf, regular caf and extra caf are the options, with the milligrams of caffeine…
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Back in Liverpool, she checked herself into a mental hospital, where she begged the doctors to “make me more manly,” she wrote in a first-person account for News of the World in 1961. They treated her with drugs and electroshock therapy. “It lasted a year,” she recalled, “and at the end of the day they…
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It was the night before a new moon, and a rotating palette of color, reflecting off the buildings, floated like a halo in the mist. Silhouettes of cows dotted my periphery, accompanied by the gentle rustle of their grazing on the riverbank. As I approached the center of the complex, the crowds pressed closer together,…
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It all starts in the brain’s fear center, the amygdala, which reacts to stress by activating the so-called fight-or-flight response, triggering the release of hormones that over time can increase levels of body fat, blood pressure and insulin resistance. Furthermore, as the team explained, the cascade of reactions to stress causes inflammation in the arteries,…
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Nadia Popovici kept shifting her eyes from the hockey game to the back of Brian Hamilton’s neck. Mr. Hamilton, an assistant equipment manager for the Vancouver Canucks, had a small mole there. It measured about two centimeters and was irregularly shaped and red-brown in color — possible characteristics of a cancerous mole, signs that Ms.…
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I’m sorry you’ve had such a rough go of it and hope your situation improves, and quickly. We are in a pandemic. Nothing is normal, and employers have to recognize that their employees are human beings in human bodies. Keeping Up Appearances The proliferation of Zoom since the start of the pandemic seems to have…
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