As to why they settled on a Birkin for their first entry into high fashion, aside from the obvious wordplay, Lukas Bentel, 28, one of MSCHF’s creative directors, explained: “Birkin bags are like a cultural meme, a symbol for a certain kind of wealth.” By “mashing it into a really accessible object,” they wanted to…
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Good morning. Can you spare me your lunch break? I’m asking because I think it’d be super if we could all make pizza dough today, let it proof in the refrigerator for a good long while, and then have a pizza party together later in the week. Say on Wednesday? Wouldn’t that be nice? To…
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Social media users have been captivated by the plight of a woman named Tessica Brown, her decision to use Gorilla Glue instead of hair spray and a harrowing, monthlong quest to undo a seemingly permanent hairstyle. It all started when Ms. Brown ran out of her usual hair spray, Got2b Glued. In a pinch, she…
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“That is a tragedy,” Dr. Nida Qadir, co-director of the medical intensive care unit at Ronald Reagan U.C.L.A. Medical Center, said of the M.L.K. statistic. Her hospital had mortality levels “a lot lower than that,” she said, though the hospital had not publicly released the figure. A new study of patients at 168 hospitals found…
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Growing up in the frigid confines of Endwell, N.Y., I tried to escape the endless winters and year-round rain by visiting my local library, where I sought out photography books with images of warmer places. I remember being thrilled by a picture book that traced the Mississippi River from its source in Minnesota to the…
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HAC, the Oklahoma company that owns Cash Saver and Homeland, is employee-owned. Its chief executive, Marc Jones, said the initial hero pay last year was “a reflection of the surge of people in our stores, and when that surge died down it seemed like the appropriate time to end it.” It was a huge expense…
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For a vast majority of Americans, a coronavirus vaccine is like sleep for a new parent: It’s all you can think about, even if you have no idea when you will get it. People are scrolling through perpetually crashing websites at 3 a.m., or driving 150 miles each way in the snow. Others are lining…
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When you need more light in a room but you don’t want to hire an electrician to install a hard-wired fixture and there’s no place to put a table lamp, there’s an easy fix: the clamp lamp. Clipped to the edge of a desk, bookshelf, wall shelf, headboard or just about any other hard surface,…
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If there is a silver lining to the devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, it likely lies in the glaring inadequacies and inefficiencies it exposed that are inherent in traditional American medicine. At the same time, it suggests ways to improve medical practice that can ultimately give us more bang for our health care buck.…
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Dr. Snyder’s research led him to co-found January. The company provides its customers with continuous glucose monitors and then uses artificial intelligence to help them make decisions about what to eat, including predictions about how they might react to different foods before they even eat them. The programs, which are not covered by insurance, are…
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