In a normal October, the Radisson BLU Saga Hotel in Reykjavik would be buzzing with tourists hoping for a glimpse of the Northern Lights, business travelers in town for trade fairs, honeymooners gearing up for a tour of Iceland’s waterfalls and geothermal spas. This year, of course, things are very different. “It’s surreal,” said Ingibjorg…
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Jeremy MoellerGetty Images Prime Day officially kicked off this morning and the deals are vast. It’s good news for fashion people, because Shopbop (a member of the Amazon family—specifically, the cousin who has never looks disheveled a day in her life) has thousands of items on sale. Brace yourselves, we’re not exaggerating. We realize that…
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RYE, N.Y.—“Marc is going to be another 40 minutes,” said Nick Newbold, popping his shaggy, baseball-capped head into the kitchen of a rental house in this leafy, yuppie haven in Westchester County on a Sunday afternoon in late September. Marc is Marc Jacobs, who was hidden away in one of the home’s four bedrooms putting…
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SEATTLE — Tom Douglas still marvels at how quickly everything went south. “We were having a really good start of February,” said the veteran Seattle chef and restaurateur. He was set to sign a lease on a new space late in the month, which would have been his 14th restaurant overall. Mr. Douglas and his…
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It’s been somewhat of a running joke in a profoundly unfunny time: endless laments about the “quarantine 15” or “Covid 19,” referring to the number of pounds gained during lockdown. According to a June survey of 2,000 American adults by the weight loss program Nutrisystem, 76 percent of respondents gained weight, up to 16 pounds,…
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It was a gray early spring day just west of Cleveland, where my husband and I had driven from New York City to say goodbye to his dying aunt. My sister-in-law and our niece and nephew joined us at the hospice facility where Aunt Linda was already being administered palliative care. Aunt Linda was mostly…
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It’s finally Prime Day, which means for the next 48 hours (or until October 14 12am PST), everything from AirPods to dutch ovens to fashion and far, far beyond is on sale. If you’re not sure where to start, there’s one deal in particular that anyone who’s been living in leggings these last few months…
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Optical spectrometers are instruments with a wide variety of uses. By measuring the intensity of light across different wavelengths, they can be used to image tissues or measure the chemical composition of everything from a distant galaxy to a leaf. Now researchers at the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering have come up a with…
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URBANA, Ill. – What exactly is the relationship between soil nitrogen, corn yield, and nitrogen loss? Most farmers would be forgiven for assuming a straightforward linear relationship: more nitrogen, more grain yield, and maybe, more loss. That’s the assumption many nitrogen management models are based on, but it turns out there’s very little published science…
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Differences in the microstructure of the nucleus accumbens (NAcc), a region in the brain that plays an important role in processing food and other reward stimuli, predict increases in indicators of obesity in children, according to a study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and nine other institutes, all part of the…
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