3 Ways to Unlock Your ‘Hidden Potential’: Takeaways From Adam Grant’s New Book
In his new book, the organizational psychologist Adam Grant shares counterintuitive strategies for higher achievement.
‘Hopeless Romantic Society’ Wants to Hear Your Low Points in Love
“What’s the craziest thing you ever did for love?” This is Jahad Chris Carter’s favorite question to ask strangers he meets, usually in Washington Square Park in Manhattan, or as he likes to call it, his office. As the creator and host of “Hopeless Romantic Society,” a man-on-the-street-style series on social media and YouTube, he’s…
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Couples Are Dealing With Tensions Over Cannabis
Like many spouses, Kindred Sparks has a list of marital grievances. But hers are not like everyone else’s. There was the time when her husband, Peter Pietrangeli, left an envelope with thousands of dollars in cash on the roof of his car and drove off. Or the time he left their son’s car seat on…
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Are ‘Secret Room’ Drawings by Michelangelo? Now, Visitors Can Judge for Themselves.
The narrow, arched room below the Medici Chapels Museum in Florence has some suspiciously virtuosic doodles on the walls. “The hand is very fast, showing great confidence, it makes you think,” Francesca De Luca, the museum’s director, said as she contemplated a muscular nude by the entrance. She pointed out the legs in another sketch…
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Get Married at the Stanley, a Spooky Hotel Inspired by ‘The Shining’
Couples who get married in October at the Stanley Hotel, situated at the doorstep of the Rocky Mountains in Estes Park, Colo., sometimes have a hard time getting their guests to R.S.V.P. Lauren Nichols and Jeffrey Sheffler, who will marry there Oct. 28, couldn’t convince a dozen of their out-of-town guests to stay on the…
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In Brooklyn, a Honduran-Inspired Backyard Dinner
On a warm evening, not long before her guests were set to arrive, Cathleen O’Neil, 30, was stocking the bar for a dinner party at her home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, while her co-host, the chef Feisal Lagos, 39, was hastily adding the finishing touches to his handwritten menu. “The point,” he said, “is for people…
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Is Social Media Addictive? Here’s What the Science Says.
A group of 41 states and the District of Columbia filed suit on Tuesday against Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, contending that the company knowingly used features on its platforms to cause children to use them compulsively, even as the company said that its social media sites were safe for…
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Easy Dinner Recipes for Roasted Fish, Carrot Soup and Orange Salad
A few things to consider when planning a November dinner party: It’s important to celebrate the newly arrived fall produce and the change in weather. It’s time for all manner of warming, homey fare. But also: The month signals the start of “the holiday season” and all its various temptations. My approach here emphasizes simplicity…
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The Marie Laurencin Exhibition Making the Case for Art Without Men
“One issue that Laurencin did have with being taken seriously by, say, feminist art historians in the ’90s is that she was so feminine,” she said. “They just couldn’t get it.” After Laurencin’s death, her work fell into an especially peculiar trap: It was dismissed for its femininity and criticized for its supposed lack of…
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