As New York City prepares for another week of temperatures in the mid-90s, New Yorkers have something else they can look forward to: the …
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Why Mechanics Are Finding Themselves on Rat Patrol
Good morning. It’s Thursday. We’ll look at yet another place where rats are turning up as the city emerges from the pandemic. We’ll also take a …
Continue readingFive Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present
Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present “Blade Runner,” “E.T.,” “Tron,” “The Wrath of Khan” and “The Thing” all arrived …
Continue readingIt Came From the ’80s
If you were a moviegoer in the 1980s, you were constantly presented with imaginative questions that seemed cosmic and existential. Would humanity …
Continue readingIf These Beautiful Ornaments Could Speak
“The Clamor of Ornament,” a dazzling new exhibition at the Drawing Center, gathers nearly 200 drawings, etchings, photographs, tunics and …
Continue readingA Stranger Filmed Her on the Train. TikTok Users Decided She Had Monkeypox.
Lilly Simon, a 33-year-old in Brooklyn, does not have monkeypox. She does have neurofibromatosis type 1, a genetic condition that causes tumors …
Continue readingThe Bride Wore … Cargo Pants?
Rosie Assoulin never intended to do bridal wear. But as the fashion designer tells it, after debuting her namesake ready-to-wear label in 2013 …
Continue readingIrish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer
BELMULLET, Ireland — The call of the corncrake — a small, shy bird related to the coot — is harsh and monotonous, yet for older generations it …
Continue readingGermany’s conservative leaders push for nuclear power to stay on as the country breaks from Russian fuels.
BERLIN — Germany’s leading conservative politicians will visit one of the country’s last remaining nuclear plants on Thursday as part of a push …
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