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Cooking Up a Cleaner, Safer Open-Fire Stove -... →
By Alice Rawsthorn May 20, 2012
When their prototype cooking stove passed its first trial with flying colors in Ghana, the American designers Jonathan Cedar and Alex Drummond expected it to be equally successful in the next round of tests in India. But then they discovered that very different types of food would be cooked on it.
“The staple dish in Ghana is banku, a starchy mass of corn...
May 2012
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At it amour and nails: polish naming and the fine... →
By Gillian Orr May 18, 2012
“It takes six people eight hours to name 12 shades,” says Suzi Weiss Fischmann, OPI’s creative director. “For this we sat in a room and ate German food to get inspired.” So, is punning a prerequisite skill for those interested in a career in polish naming? “Of course! And you have to be kind of crazy,” laughs Fischmann. Just...
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Watch‘Saturday Night Live’ Shows Its Heart On Kristen Wiig’s Last Night : Monkey See : NPR By Linda Holmes May 21, 2012
It was beautifully awkward at times — how she misses the kiss with Jay Pharoah because he’s bowing to her, how Bobby Moynihan ducks away in a hurry because he’s losing it, how seeing Bill Hader is the moment she starts to buckle and the first...
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Pantone color forecasts: Are they accurate? →
Color forecasting is almost as old as the fashion industry itself. In the late 19th century, color cards issued by French textile mills were snapped up by their American counterparts, eager for ideas and direction. As Regina Lee Blaszczyk, a historian and author of the forthcoming book The Color Revolution, notes, Margaret Hayden Rorke, an American actress, suffragist, and the country’s first...
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“I’m terrific at everything!”
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Just One More Game ... Angry Birds, Farmville and... →
By Sam Anderson April 4, 2012
Humans have always played stupid games. Dice are older than recorded history. Ancient Egyptians played a board game called Senet, which archaeologists believe was something like sacred backgammon. We have rock-paper-scissors, tick-tack-toe, checkers, dominoes and solitaire — small, abstract games in which sets of simple rules play out in increasingly complex...
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New Challenger Footage of the Day: The niece of a couple who retired to Florida primarily to attend space shuttle launches recently came across what could be called a national treasure — her father, Steven Virostek, captured the 1986 Challenger tragedy on home video.
The rare footage, made public this week, begins with Steven’s wife, Hope, caught up in the excitement of...
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New York Council Is Set to Encourage Greener... →
By Mireya Navarro April 26, 2012
The new regulations would encourage better insulation by allowing buildings to add up to eight inches of thickness to exterior walls without its being counted in the building’s maximum footprint. Other changes would relax height limits and facade restrictions to make room for equipment like solar panels, wind turbines, awnings, green roofs, recreational decks...