Through videos on YouTube and TikTok that feature their lives, fashions and routines, many Koreans are challenging the idea that such media are a young person’s game.SEOUL — In 2017 Kim Yura shot a video during a vacation she took to the Australian city of Cairns and later ...
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Start-ups are using technology to take a robotic approach to manicures, offering a simple way to provide foolproof nail polish.This article is part of our new series, Currents, which examines how rapid advances in technology are transforming our lives.Omri Moran was on time for a first date, but ...
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Through videos on YouTube and TikTok that feature their lives, fashions and routines, many Koreans are challenging the idea that such media are a young person’s game.SEOUL — In 2017 Kim Yura shot a video during a vacation she took to the Australian city of Cairns and later ...
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Philly’s a tough town.If there’s a quintessential story about the City of Brotherly Love, it’s this one: In 2015, when Canadian researchers developed a child-sized hitchhiking robot with a big smile and yellow wellies, the hitchbot made it across Europe and halfway down the East Coast, offering friendly ...
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As an old outdoor hobby draws new followers, metal detectors are sweeping the country.People have been metal detecting since 1881, when Alexander Graham Bell invented a device to find the bullet lodged in President James Garfield.But it took several more decades for recreational metal detectors — devices that ...
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Loud was part of “An American Family” in 1973, but his wild band, Mumps, never signed a record deal. Now their songs are being released on the 20th anniversary of his death.On February 20, 1973, Lance Loud earned a place in musical history that, at the time, nearly ...
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“We were scared, but the people and the love from the public was our gasoline to go up there and confront the police,” said one.For weeks, thousands of people have crowded the streets of Colombia, protesting inequality, rising poverty and police violence. President Iván Duque has deployed the ...
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In-person events are returning. You can attend a rodeo, watch the Perseid meteor shower or immerse yourself in the art of Vincent van Gogh. Here are suggestions for three months of fun.Here is a sampling of events from now through Labor Day and how to attend or tune ...
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Ahead of Memorial Day, and the unofficial start of summer, we asked readers to share what they are looking forward to most in the coming months. More than 100 people wrote in from across the United States with their post-pandemic plans. Here are a select few, edited and ...
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As the pandemic and lockdowns dragged on and on over the past year, many people longed only for the day when the world would return to the time before Covid-19 entered our vocabulary. For others, though, the months of seclusion led them to search for ways they might ...
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Don’t worry: No final exams, or hefty student loans are involved. All you need are a few simple items, and an abiding interest in the wonders of nature.If you like looking at trees, and bark, and the pattern of veins in leaves; if you are fascinated by clouds ...
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Ragers on the beach. Art galleries on Main Street. Reservations disappearing. Who remembers the pandemic?It was 4 p.m. last Friday and a 30-something New Yorker who’d just flown into the East Hampton airport was seated on a bench outside the terminal, typing into his laptop, a pair of ...
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Cities and states are spending millions to promote tourism as they reopen, but the marketing campaigns aren’t always the catchiest.They are the opening lines of a reopening: entreaties by cities, states and nations seeking to draw a wary public by evoking a sense of togetherness, normalcy and — ...
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Benito Skinner was born and raised in Boise, Idaho, but has long felt destined for Hollywood, by way of a stint in New York City.“There’s space, and I just needed to fit more of my wigs and costumes in my apartment,” he said of his new West Hollywood ...
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