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☆ A Q&A With Elon Musk’s Biographer
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Andrew Ross Sorkin | More About Andrew Ross Sorkin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Do you think that he senses the enormity of the power and, therefore, the responsibility? I don’t think he understands it when it comes to X. He’s impulsive and sometimes contradictory in how he deals with the moderation issues. There’s times when he sees himself in epic terms, and there’s times when he says, “All right, I have to be more careful.”Given how much time you’ve spent with him, do you think you now understand what drives him? We all have some demons in our heads from childhood, and he’s got two orders of magnitude more than most of us. I don’t think he would have let me ride by his side for two years if he didn’t crave to have the story of his life — warts and all — out there.

Persons: Elon Musk, you’ve, he’s, He’s, I’ve, can’t, crave Organizations: PayPal

☆ Ben Shelton vs. Frances Tiafoe: 2 Black men will face off in a US Open quarterfinal for the first time
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Chandelis Duster | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —No matter who wins Tuesday’s US Open quarterfinals match between Frances Tiafoe and Ben Shelton, history will be made: For the first time, two Black men will face off in the match. It’s also the first time since 2008 that two Black men play each other at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Tiafoe, 25, and Shelton, 20, will face each other at a stadium christened after the Black tennis legend who broke barriers in the game. He was also the first Black American to play on the United States Davis Cup team. Earlier this year, Shelton’s father resigned from coaching at the University of Florida to coach his son in professional tennis.

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☆ Grilled Peaches With Dukkah to Savor the Last of Summer
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Kim Severson | More About Kim Severson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Hello from Atlanta, where school started a month ago and we are deep into packing lunches, working hard and trying to ignore the recent courthouse shenanigans that seem to keep Georgia on everybody’s mind. By some estimates, nearly 95 percent of the crop was lost largely because of a hard and untimely freeze. But we Georgians have 40 commercial varieties, all of them ripening to a deep sugary tang under the hot Southern sun. I cherished the few peaches I did get, even though they were crazy expensive and weren’t as sweet or as ripe as usual. The brilliant Ligaya Mishan, a columnist for The New York Times Magazine, came to my rescue with a recipe to grill them (above).

Organizations: The New York Times Magazine Locations: Atlanta, Georgia, New Jersey, California, Colorado

☆ The End (of Summer) Is Nigh. Let’s Enjoy It!
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Joshua Needelman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Here’s the bad news: On Aug. 11, the sun in New York City set at 8 p.m. It will not set that late again until 2024. That doesn’t mean that it’s time to bring out the seasonal affective disorder lamps: summer doesn’t end until Sept. 23. But take the approaching end of the season as extra motivation to savor these last few weeks before temperatures dip and sunlight is at a premium. As the New York Yankee great Yogi Berra once said, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” See family and friends during the Labor Day weekend, and then squeeze everything you can out of these final weeks.

Persons: Yogi Berra Organizations: New York Yankee, Labor Locations: New York City

☆ So You’re Done With ‘Suits’ …
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Margaret Lyons | More About Margaret Lyons | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For reasons no one can quite decipher, the legal soap “Suits,” which aired on USA from 2011-2019, has become the show of the summer. While it was popular enough when it aired, I’ve read more “Suits” articles in the last few weeks than during the show’s entire run. The show is a hit on Netflix, but if you are on your “Suits” journey right now, note that the ninth and final season is in fact not on Netflix — though it is on Peacock and Amazon. Perhaps you’re thinking, “Wow, if only there were a spinoff to ‘Suits,’ surely everyone would want in on that.” Well, there is a spinoff to “Suits,” called “Pearson,” which follows Gina Torres’s character, Jessica Pearson, on her next legal endeavor. But in a perfect snapshot of the inane and hostile world of streaming, “Pearson” is not streaming on any platform.

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☆ A waffle you can drink: Eggo releases sippable version of popular breakfast dish
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Ashley R. Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Kellogg’s Eggo and Sugarlands Distilling Company partnered to launch a sippable boozy waffle beverage called Eggo Brunch in a Jar Sippin’ Cream, according to a news release Tuesday. This Eggo beverage isn’t for the kiddos, but parents are welcome to indulge. “Eggo Brunch in a Jar makes it easy for parents to kick back when they’re not caring for their little ones,” Beauprez said. The alcoholic brunchtime drink isn’t the first collaboration between Eggo and Sugarlands. The brands collaborated last year to create Eggo Nog, according to Sugarlands’ master distiller, Greg Eidam.

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☆ Did Gérard Grisey’s Music Predict His Own Death?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Jeffrey Arlo Brown | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

And in the final two movements, the singer, inhabiting the character of Gilgamesh, describes the myth’s apocalyptic flood and its aftermath. In the fifth and final piece, not a complete song but a short “Lullaby,” a crystalline, pulsing texture is there one second and gone the next. On the early morning of Nov. 10, 1998, Grisey returned from Milan to the Paris apartment he shared with his partner, the mezzo-soprano Mireille Deguy. Deguy returned to their apartment in the evening. Deguy remembers that Grisey removed his watch and asked her to do the same before he collapsed from a brain aneurysm.

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“I’ve always treated football refereeing in my games as if I were coming in to referee a World Cup final,” she says. Claudia Vasconcelos refereeing during the 1991 third-place playoff. Ingrid Jonsson, a lineswoman in the 1991 World Cup final, was the first female official chosen to referee a final. By 1999, all the officials chosen for the World Cup in the USA were women. Claudia Vasconcelos refereeing Flamengo vs. Vasco in the 1994 junior Campeonato Carioca.

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☆ I’m a Ukrainian Soldier Who Spent Five Days in a Trench Waiting for Death - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Artem Chekh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I was writing a novel. But Russia, not content with destroying the statehood of Ukraine once before, had other plans. Did I really want to die at the end of the world, from which not everyone returns? Probably every Ukrainian soldier asks these questions that don’t have answers. The Russians captured the rest of the city and most of the Ukrainian units left.

Persons: I’ve, — Organizations: Royal Locations: Russia, Ukraine, America, Virginia, Missouri, United States, Russian, Va, Ozark, Mo

☆ Best Gifts for the Tea Lovers in Your Life
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Sarah Rose | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +8 min

For masterful measuringOMABETA Portable Kitchen Tea Scale $16 at AmazonAs with baking, you will get best results when measuring tea leaves by weight rather than the spoonful. “Some teas are tightly rolled while others are fluffy and light,” explains Ben Marcus-Willers, of Red Blossom Tea Company, a San Francisco-based tea company that sells to consumers as well as Michelin three-star chefs. Desains suggests a porcelain tea pot clad in stainless steel to keep a quality tea warm for hours. Alternately, make a tea concentrate by doubling the amount of tea leaves in hot tea, then pouring it over ice. Tea will always taste best fresh and warm, and its taste will change—“often for the worse,” Kroesen notes—as it cools.

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☆ Scientists decode an ancient curry recipe
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The sandstone slab, buried 2 meters (6.5 feet) below the surface, was dug up in 2018 at the Oc Eo archaeological complex in southern Vietnam. The site was once an overseas trading hub of an ancient Southeast Asian kingdom known as Funan, according to a new study of the substances found on the slab. The findings offer clues to how curry — and the people who made it — migrated to Southeast Asia. “Nowadays, preparing curry in Vietnam has become much simpler for most families due to the widespread availability of curry powder in supermarkets. Nguyen added that the team planned to recreate the 2,000-year-old curry based on the ingredients found at the site.

Persons: ”, . Hsiao, chun Hung, ” Hung, Hung, Khanh Trung Kien, Khanh Trung Kien Nguyen, Nguyen Organizations: CNN, Australian National University, Center for Archaeology, Southern Institute of Social Sciences, Oc Eo, Eo Locations: Vietnam, Canberra, India, Southeast Asia, Ho Chi Minh City, South, Cambodia, South Asia

☆ The Art of Being a Flâneur
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Stephanie Rosenbloom | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

I followed the river toward the Uffizi Gallery where I stopped, enchanted by the scene below. It’s “a search for the delectable, delicious, almost gustatory delights of the moment,” as they put it. Other times, an object or architectural detail that piques your interest — a gate, a gargoyle — provides a portal to another time. Stories of vanished ages can be triggered by a single stone, then explored back home through books and websites. Being in a big city among so many strangers can be at turns exhilarating and disturbing.

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If your credit history is limited, the Capital One SavorOne Cash Rewards for Good Credit is worth a close look. How to use rewards from the SavorOne for Good Credit cardThe Capital One SavorOne Cash Rewards for Good Credit comes with a straightforward reward redemption: Cash back in the form of a statement credit or a check. There's another redemption option if you also have a Capital One credit card that earns miles, like the aCapital One Venture Rewards Credit Card or Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card. SavorOne for Good Credit benefits and featuresThe Capital One SavorOne Cash Rewards for Good Credit is fairly low-frills in terms of extra benefits. If you wouldn't otherwise be approved for the regular Capital One Savor Cash Rewards Credit Card or Capital One SavorOne Cash Rewards Credit Card because your credit is on the lower side of good, the Capital One SavorOne Cash Rewards for Good Credit is worth considering.

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☆ Bruce Willis: Daughter Tallulah opens up about father's dementia diagnosis
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Bruce Willis’ daughter, Tallulah, has revealed her difficulties coming to terms with her father’s frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis and shared details about its impact on her family’s life. “I keep flipping between the present and the past when I talk about Bruce: he is, he was, he is, he was. She recalled the first signs of her father’s illness, which the family initially announced was aphasia, a condition that can hinder communication. He had had two babies with my stepmother, Emma Heming Willis, and I thought he’d lost interest in me. Though this couldn’t have been further from the truth, my adolescent brain tortured itself with some faulty math: I’m not beautiful enough for my mother, I’m not interesting enough for my father.”Tallulah Willis is the youngest daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.

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☆ ‘Ted Lasso’ Finale Recap: Family
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Christopher Orr | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There are TV finales that go out with a shock or on a sad note or with a healthy dose of ambivalence. But that was not how “Ted Lasso” was ever going to end. Were you one of those who fell for the Rebecca–Ted fake out at the breakfast island that opened the episode? By which I mean, one of the (sane) viewers who was horrified at such a terrible idea or one of the (I’m sure very nice, though highly misguided) viewers who felt vindicated? It was a sneaky move, but with time running out I’m not sure how else we were ever going to see Beard in a banana hammock.

Persons: Ted Lasso ”, Rebecca – Ted, I’m, Beard

☆ Want a Truly Classic Summer Vacation? Head to This Quiet Corner of Maine
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Lisa Wells | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

HIGH & MIGHTY: A trail runner stops to admire the view of Great Pond atop Mount Phillip, a popular hiking destination, in the Belgrade Lakes watershed. Photo: 7 Lakes AllianceBELGRADE LAKES is an area of central Maine that doesn’t often get attention, and locals and longtime summer residents are just fine with the anonymity. The state’s capital, Augusta (population 19,066), is near here, but no one feels slighted that the city isn’t afforded the cachet of Kennebunkport, or that tourist maps show routes up the East Coast that abruptly veer off to Bar Harbor and stop, ignoring the interior. Locals savor the long hot days lakeside, hiking, golfing or swimming at beloved nearby spots untrammeled by summer visitors.

☆ Sign Up for Well’s 5-Week Walking Series
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Jancee Dunn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I stroll to straighten up my back when I’ve been hunched over a computer for too long. I walk with my teen to prompt her to open up to me. So we’re dedicating the entire month of June to exploring the joy of walking — and I hope you’ll come along with us. And, for an activity that’s so casual, the physical and mental benefits are tremendous — better sleep, reducing joint pain and lowering anxiety. But, if you need a little more motivation, the Well Newsletter will include walking inspiration this June.

Once a wellness haven for American elites in search of mountain air, Asheville, N.C., has reinvented itself many times over the last century. In recent years, the city, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, has become a culinary hot spot, with multiple award-winning restaurants, and an inordinate number of breweries. Art lovers will find much to savor in the River Arts District, and bikers and hikers will have miles of trails in and around the city to explore. In the downtown area and beyond, Black residents are embracing their “Affrilachian” heritage through tours and art collectives, and creative spaces featuring the work of Indigenous artists acknowledge the region’s ties to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, on whose ancestral land the city sits.

☆ I drove the $62,000 Kia EV6 GT — a genius electric SUV with supercar speed. Here are 8 things it taught me.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Alanis King | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

I heard a lot of great things about the Kia EV6 GT before driving one myself. The Kia EV6 GT is geniusThe EV6 is Kia's new electric crossover, and it starts at $48,700. The 2023 Kia EV6 GT. The 2023 Kia EV6 GT. The 2023 Kia EV6 GT.

[1/5] Cast member Chris Pratt attends the premiere of 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Pratt had seen one or two short unfinished sequences of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3," but at the premiere he took the time to savor the entirety of the swan song in Marvel’s “Guardians” trilogy. “I wanted to be swept away on the journey alongside my friends, my family, all of the fans in the audience, the cast and crew. While that wasn’t the actual moment that Pratt and Gunn had, the two recalled feeling the emotional weight of saying goodbye to the “Guardians” movies together.

☆ A 'Diet Coke break' is the latest example of Gen Zs and Millennials insisting on work-life balance
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Grace Mayer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The idea of "sharing a Coke," or taking a Diet Coke break, is also prominent in the soda brand's advertising history. Seninger says she's always been a "Diet Coke break girl" — even before she started posting about it on TikTok last year. A Diet Coke break helps me to romanticize that part of my day and take a break," Seninger said. In another TikTok, a creator captioned her Diet Coke break video: "Studies show Diet Coke breaks significantly improve one's mental health." In the past, he's said he drinks a minimum of five cans of Diet Coke or Cherry Coke a day.

☆ Why I signed up to live on a cruise ship for three years
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —When Sharon Lane heard about a cruise company offering a three-year-long voyage around the world, she immediately started fantasizing about life on board. While it’s long been Lane’s dream to live on a cruise ship full time, the steep cost has always been a barrier. I don’t know, the sky’s the limit.”Preparing for a new lifeSharon Lane will spend three years living on the MV Gemini cruise ship, pictured here. The 130-square-feet cabin has no window, but guests have been promised a screen that will broadcast live footage from outside the ship. Lane won’t disembark the ship in certain destinations, like Antarctica, where the cold air might aggravate her lungs.

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▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Joseph Hostetler | Credit Cards Reporter | Read More | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

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☆ If you have just about any cash back or miles-earning Capital One credit card, you can now book and earn bonus rewards through Capital One Travel
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Jasmin Baron | Sarah Silbert | Read More | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

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