The signs inside Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport told the story on Wednesday morning: “Real ID, Enhanced, Passport” with an arrow pointing to the right, and “All Others” with an arrow pointing to the left. After years of warnings and postponements, “all others” are no longer enough to make it past airport security checkpoints. Travelers…
This article is part of our Design special section about how food inspires designers to make and do surprising things. In 2019, Jessy Slim, a Lebanese American designer, had just started a graduate architecture program at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., when protests erupted in her birthplace, Beirut. That October, thousands…
This article is part of our Design special section about how food inspires designers to make and do surprising things. Many people look at avocados and see guacamole. An agave plant is little more than a future shot of tequila, a corn stalk the raw material for a warm tortilla. But the Mexican designer Fernando…
A United Airlines Boeing 777 jet clipped the wingtip of another United plane while it was pushing back from the gate early Tuesday morning at San Francisco International Airport, prompting the cancellation of two trans-Pacific flights that had been carrying more than 500 passengers between them, officials said. No one was injured during the mishap,…
This article is part of our Design special section about how food inspires designers to make and do surprising things. The earliest dining appliance was a pair of cupped hands. Then came folded leaves; then vessels and utensils shaped from stone, earth and metal. Today, the style, substance and uses of tableware have proliferated beyond…
This article is part of our Design special section about how food inspires designers to make and do surprising things. In Venice, beauty and decay have always flowed side by side, borne on waters that are as treacherous as they are alluring. The lagoon makes itself felt as a living presence, through the briny smell…
This article is part of our Design special section about how food inspires designers to make and do surprising things. The monster was dirty. Some would call it ugly. Almost everyone said, “Make it go away.” But for Julie Buckner, it was love. Smack in the center of her kitchen was a built-in brick grill…
The green salad at Meetinghouse, a modern pub in Philadelphia, is something of an architectural marvel. Layer upon interlocking layer of gem romaine leaves slicked with spiky Dijon vinaigrette form a cylindrical tower, crowned by a tuft of watercress and minced chives. During a recent dinner service, it averaged about eight inches in height, but…
About two decades ago, a California research team observed a striking phenomenon: While a majority of older adults have at least two chronic diseases, some people reach their 80s without major illness. The researchers suspected the key to healthier aging was genetic. But after sequencing the genomes of 1,400 of these aging outliers — a…
Hawaii’s Oahu island is the kind of place where it seems you never meet a visitor who’s been there just once. People visit, then they visit again. Pretty soon Oahu has baked itself into your travel routines. In the process, those of us who end up loving it — a big number, considering total air…
