As a new coronavirus wave accelerated by the Delta variant spreads across the United States, many Republican governors have taken sweeping action to combat what they see as an even more urgent danger posed by the pandemic: the threat to personal freedom. In Florida, Ron DeSantis has prevented local governments and school districts from enacting…
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“Lettuce is not typically found in a salade niçoise — it’s sacrilege,” says the writer and art critic Fanny Singer. “But I’ll sneak lettuce into every meal.” It’s a fitting act of rebellion for the daughter of the chef and restaurateur Alice Waters, the owner of Berkeley’s legendary temple to local produce, Chez Panisse. Meanwhile,…
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“Hi. I’m Fanny Singer. And today, I’m cooking an herby grilled tuna salad. It’s called a deconstructed salad nicoise. The majority of the ingredients for the salad are from the farmer’s market. And I always like to go to the farmer’s market and see what they have and then sort of adapt accordingly. This is…
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Eso nos deja solo las técnicas invasivas, como las punciones lumbares, o las que son costosas, como las tomografías PET. No es posible usar estos métodos para estudiar a grupos de muchas personas. “No están disponibles en todas partes”, explicó Bayat. “No están muy accesibles ni son muy adaptables”. Sin embargo, un dispositivo GPS en…
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On Monday, the European Union removed the United States from its “safe list” of countries whose residents can travel to its 27 member states without requirements such as quarantine and testing. This generated confusion, with some people writing on social media that Americans have been banned from visiting Europe. That’s not actually what the recommendation…
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From biodegradable jeans to recycled gold jewelry, to a new luxury vision of upcycling from LVMH and a new take on fashion philanthropy from Chloé, fall 2021 holds some exciting new innovations for our wardrobes. Backpacks That Give Back Gabriela Hearst could hardly have picked a more glamorous venue for her Chloé debut than Paris…
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Archive PhotosGetty Images Every ’90s kid with even a passing interest in fashion remembers where they were when Cher’s digital closet in Clueless made its onscreen cameo. Like a hoverboard for the Nordstrom Brass Plum set, this technological leap implanted fever dreams in all of us—of an ever-rotating, constantly trackable wardrobe, something a number of…
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On a hot tennis court one afternoon in Houston, former magazine editor Francine Ballard found herself the center of her friends’ attention, though not for her racket skills. In her hand was a Lucite cube containing a QR code, which itself contained an original work of digital art that corresponded to a gold ring of…
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Colin Anderson Productions pty ltdGetty Images If you described your car as a smart device, everyone but Elon Musk might look at you askance. But the modern car really is one, points out Ivan Poupyrev: “It has internet, a map, artificial intelligence, and people you can talk to.” Poupyrev, Google’s director of Engineering, Advanced Technology…
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