The Beauty of 78.5 Million Followers
How social media stars like Addison Rae gave the cosmetics industry a makeover.
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CreditPaola Kudacki for The New York Times A DNA Sequencing Revolution Helped Us Fight Covid. What Else Can It Do?
Ultrafast and ultracheap sequencing could reshape the future of health care.
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Justice for the Negro Leagues Will Mean More Than Just Stats
Major League Baseball now wants to welcome Negro-leagues statistics into its record books — but the numbers are just a small part of what needs to be remembered.
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I’m Realizing My Friends Are Racist. What Should I Do?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to respond when longstanding friends reveal their prejudices — and more.
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Covid Has Traumatized America. A Doctor Explains What We Need to Heal.
Dr. Diane E. Meier, a palliative-care pioneer, has unique insight into processing our great traumas.
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CreditMamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times TalkThe Joy of Cooking With a Donabe
The Japanese clay vessel is perfect for hot pots like this chicken-meatball nabe.
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CreditHeami Lee for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Rebecca Bartoshesky. EatIs Coffee Good for Us? Maybe Machine Learning Can Help Figure It Out.
The advice from research on coffee, and nutrition more generally, always seems to be changing. Processing vast amounts of data could help us pin it down.
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CreditIllustration by Ori Toor Studies ShowWhy Finance Gurus Switched Their Bait From Millions to Thousands of Dollars
Their YouTube videos went from promising proprietary secrets for achieving wealth to any little update on the stimulus. And the viewers came rolling in.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Ricardo Santos ScreenlandRiding through the empty city, I felt present in my body again, oriented amid the disorientation of pandemic life.
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CreditSteven John Irby for The New York Times Letter of Recommendation
To cut enough wood to keep a house warm for the winter, you’ll need to know your way around a chain saw.
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A friend still feels the sting of a no-show. How clear do we need to be when we cancel?
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CreditIllustration by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy Judge John HodgmanPoem: Note to Black Women in America
If you can’t see yourself in the conversation being had between these lines, the poem becomes a question: What have you chosen to ignore during your days?
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