The True Cost of Upgrading Your Phone
Buying a $1,000 iPhone can be equivalent to giving up $17,000 in retirement savings or 2,500 cups of coffee.
Ancient-DNA Researchers Set Ethics Guidelines for Their Work
The authors of the new paper intentionally chose to invite only active practitioners of ancient DNA research, according to Kendra Sirak, a paleogeneticist at Harvard Medical School and one of the authors. They also emphasize that these guidelines come from a particular group of scholars in the ancient DNA community. “We realized that what’s lacking…
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How Chemours and DuPont Avoid Paying for PFAS Pollution
A Blame-Shifting Exercise The transactions that created Chemours and reinvented DuPont laid the groundwork for a blame-shifting exercise that has made it difficult for regulators and others to hold anyone accountable for decades of contamination in North Carolina and elsewhere. State attorneys general in Ohio, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York each sued…
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Nadia Chaudhri, Scientist With an End-of-Life Mission, Dies at 43
Nadia Chaudhri, a neuroscientist with terminal ovarian cancer who used her final months to raise money for graduate students of diverse backgrounds and to educate the public about her disease through a widely followed social media chronicle, died on Oct. 5 at a hospital in Montreal. She was 43. Her husband, Moni Orife, confirmed her…
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Does Estrogen Impact Exercise? What Scientists Are Learning
These results highlight the “complexity of physical activity behavior,” Dr. Ingraham said, and how the willingness to spontaneously move — or not — for any animal likely involves an intricate interplay between genetics, endocrinology and neurology, along with conscious deliberation. The study also raises the intriguing possibility that the “timing of exercise, to have its…
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Blacktag, a New Streaming Service, Has Big Plans
When Ousman Sahko Sow and Akin Adebowale founded Blacktag in 2019, they sought to answer two questions: What would a streaming platform for a digitally savvy Black audience look like? And how could it become a destination for Black talent? It turns out both answers have a lot to do with pay. “What we’re building…
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Easy Dessert Recipes That Don’t Require a Mixer
There’s no doubt that mixers — standing and hand-held — have made baking so much easier. But there’s an enticing ease to whipping up a dessert without having to get one out, and without having to wash it afterward. New York Times Cooking has plenty of desserts that require nothing more than a few bowls…
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Stir-Frying Without a Wok
Good morning. I loved this column Genevieve Ko wrote for the newspaper that we sent to the plant yesterday, printed overnight, stuffed into blue bags and hurled in the direction of our home-delivery subscribers’ front doors this morning. It’s about how she’s keeping the culinary traditions of her immigrant parents alive, adapting Western kitchen equipment…
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House Hunting in France: In Brittany, a Medieval Makeover for $1.2 Million
Market Overview Brittany, a peninsular region in western France with dramatic coastlines and ancient megaliths, has remained popular with foreign home buyers and is now seeing an influx of French buyers from larger cities, said Gilles Durin, the regional commercial director in Brittany for Patrice Besse. “The interest in Brittany has not changed for foreign…
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How to Talk to the World Through Free Translation Apps
Need to have a conversation in a language you don’t know, make sense of a printed sign or quickly translate a message? With Google and Apple revving their machine-learning engines in their Google Translate and Apple’s Translate apps, there’s a whole new world of communication possibilities right in your pocket. Keep in mind that computer…
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