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Harry & Meghan’s ‘Near Catastrophic’ Car Chase

Harry & Meghan’s ‘Near Catastrophic’ Car Chase

The evening of May 16 had started so well. Meghan, 41, Duchess of Sussex, accompanied by her husband, Prince Harry, 38, and her mom, Doria Ragland, 66, took the podium at the Ms. Foundation’s Women of Vision Awards, where the duchess was honored for her advocacy to empower women and girls. “I can now connect the dots in a much better way to understand how I became a young feminist and evolved into a grown activist,” Meghan told the audience to applause. Afterward, at around 10 p.m., the couple and Ragland left the Ziegfeld Ballroom in Midtown Manhattan, hopped into their waiting black SUV and headed for a friend’s private residence, where they were staying. Then things changed. Photographers followed the trio on a circuitous route through the streets of Manhattan,…

How Rude Encounters Affect Decision-Making

How Rude Encounters Affect Decision-Making

Research has shown that experiencing rudeness can affect people’s performance on subsequent tasks. A new study finds that it also heightens susceptibility to cognitive biases, or systematic flaws in judgment. Across four experiments, participants who experienced or overheard a rude conversation were highly likely to fall prey to the so-called anchoring bias, whereby people rely too heavily on the first piece of information they receive about a topic, even when it’s irrelevant or wrong. In the first experiment, the researchers ran a simulation in which anesthesiology residents had to care for a surgical patient who became unstable. They had been given an intentionally misleading suggestion about what the problem might be. Half the group first heard a senior physician berate a colleague. Throughout the simulation all the residents had access to…

MAKE OVER YOUR WEIGHT LOSS STRATEGY

THERE’S A SAYING: “IF NOTHING CHANGES, NOTHING CHANGES.” That’s true when it comes to losing weight, of course—no pounds will be dropped if you don’t adjust your lifestyle—but it’s also true when it comes to how we approach weight loss in the first place. If you aren’t happy with your past experiences, thinking about it the same way you did before won’t get you to a new place. Considering what we eat is at the crux of slimming down, but it’s our feelings about food that really drive how we eat. “Food means so many different things to people,” says Anne Poirier, director of behavioral health at Hilton Head Health, an integrated wellness and weight-loss resort in South Carolina. “Food can be love, it can be family, it can be rebellion.” Her…

MAKE OVER YOUR WEIGHT LOSS STRATEGY
12 GADGETS TO IMPROVE YOUR TIME ON THE WATER

12 GADGETS TO IMPROVE YOUR TIME ON THE WATER

NOMADIX TOWELS Towels are essential on boats of any kind, but often they’re bulky and take up too much storage—and once those bulky ones are wet, good luck using them a second time. Nomadix towels are absorbent, quick-drying, odor-resistant, ultralight and easy to pack. A variety of sizes makes it easy to use some for drying off, others for cleanup, and hooded, poncho versions for changing clothes in privacy. $25 to $70; nomadix.co ACR BIVY STICK Extra safety is never a bad thing, especially when boating offshore and out of cellphone range. Combined with the Bivy app on your cellphone, the Bivy Stick allows connecting with a global satellite network so you communicate via two-way text messaging, SOS, location sharing, one-touch check-in, and detailed weather reports. $299.95 (not including data plan); acrartex.com WAKE FOAMIES MINI-MAL 5’4” WAKESURF…

Ghost writer in the machine

You may not have heard of chatbots before, but chances are you have read a recent news story about ChatGPT from OpenAI or rival Bing from Microsoft or Bard from Google. These artificial intelligence apps give apparently intelligent, if occasionally bizarre, responses to questions. They can write an essay on Keynesian economics, produce a Shakespearean sonnet about a nightingale or create computer code instantly to order. Will these digital Frankenstein monsters eclipse humanity, or is it just more hype from Big Tech? Older readers will remember stories or poems “written by a computer” from long ago and may be wary of the latest claims. Experiments with automated text generation were well-enough known in the 17th century for Jonathan Swift to parody them in Gulliver’s Travels. A mad scientist on the…

Ghost writer in the machine
The truth about training

The truth about training

1 'THE MORE YOU TRAIN, THE BETTER THE RESULTS' Yes, you need to train hard and regularly, but doing too much too often is going to be counterproductive. If you’re new to working out, start with three sessions a week, to give your muscles time to recover - and grow - before training them again. Too little rest between sessions can result in overtraining, when you feel tired, fatigued and demotivated. You’re also more likely to suffer from injury. 2 'YOU CAN TURN FAT INTO MUSCLE' Fat and muscle are two totally different types of tissue, so it’s impossible for one to turn into the other. Muscle is active tissue that burns calories, while fat tissues store excess energy. When you train hard, it’s possible to burn fat and build muscle at the…

CREATE HIGH-KEY AND LOW-KEY LIGHTING

The way you use a single studio light can completely change the mood and overall feel of your portrait, and mastering both high-key and low-key effects can really help your work have a professional, high-end feel. Creating a high-key or low-key portrait is a good way of ensuring that the focus is on the subject. A high-key image is generally dominated by highlights and sometimes errs on the side of overexposure, whereas a low-key image mainly consists of shadows and lowlights. Low-key images are usually highly dramatic and can be used to create a more mysterious or sensual image, whereas high-key shots are vibrant and engaging. The challenge with creating a high-key portrait with one light is that this style typically demands that there is lots of light. Two lights…

CREATE HIGH-KEY AND LOW-KEY LIGHTING
Foraging fungi 101

Foraging fungi 101

Fungi have come out from the gloom and starting to get the credit for the amazing life forms that they are. Part of this is an increased desire to forage and eat them. A noble goal. But imagine you went to someone’s garden in an environment you were unfamiliar with, and didn’t recognize the plants. Every time you saw a new one, you asked: “Is this edible?” It would soon tire the host. Well, there are likely more fungi species in New Zealand than plant species. Just as edible plants are a minority, so are edible fungi. The good news is that in urban or highly-modified environments there are likely more opportunities for foraging for the beginner than in indigenous forests. Identification is very important, but one can start with…

TOP TENS TVs

1 Philips 55OLED907 £2199 / go.stuff.tv/OLED907 It’s no one’s idea of a bargain, but nevertheless the 55OLED907 will be money well spent for even mild telly addicts. For once, here’s a TV with audio quality that truly matches its image quality – and be in no doubt, the image quality available here is very impressive indeed. The Ambilight illuminations are as slick as ever too. Resign yourself to a long stint sorting out the initial setup (as is always the way with Philips) and you’ll never look back. Stuff says A great OLED TV with impressive brightness and top-class audio NOW ADD THIS Apple TV 4K Fills the one hole in Android TV’s streaming lineup, and is a must if you’re all-in with Apple’s other tech. from £149 / apple.com 2 Sony…

TOP TENS TVs

PWC-SPECIFIC LIFE JACKETS

Wearing a life jacket is a smart choice for any boater but mandatory for all personal watercraft riders. Coast Guard-approved Type III models work best. The vest-style design is easy to take on and off, comfortable, and available in a wide variety of colors and graphic patterns. But while a basic Type III life jacket will always do the job, the latest crop of PWC-specific models do it better, tailoring design and features to the way individual riders use their craft. Here’s how they compare. RECREATIONAL The average recreational rider will be well-served by the classic ski vest, a sleeveless, front-entry design that closes with buckled straps or a straps-and-zipper combo. A nylon or neoprene exterior typically covers flotation foam for comfort and to protect the foam from wear and sun…

PWC-SPECIFIC LIFE JACKETS

TWO WEEKS IN THAILAND

Budget-friendly, beautiful and the land of smiles, Thailand tops the list as a holiday destination that blends beach time with ancient history and water blessings. Ancient Ayutthaya A UNESCO World Heritage site, Ayutthaya is about an hour and a half by train from Bangkok. It was the second capital of Siam and once home to 400 glittering temples. Its golden era ended when the Burmese sacked the city in 1767. Today you can visit the remaining ruins which can be found within the heart of the city and reimagine its former splendour. Entry to most wats (temples) is $2.50 and some are free. Top wats to visit: Wat Mahathat – Best-known for the head of a Buddha statue entwined in the roots of a tree, Wat Mahathat was built in…

TWO WEEKS IN THAILAND

On the Sunny Side of the Street

WHEN YOUR NEIGHBORS INCLUDE SAN Francisco’s famous Painted Ladies, known by millennials as the Full House houses, the siren call of bold color is impossible to ignore. In steering the refresh of a 1900 Victorian down the road, Kelly Finley, principal of Joy Street Design, heard it loud and clear. “Our motto is no white kitchens,” says the designer, who splits her time between Oakland, California, and Atlanta. “Color is joy! Color is life!” Originally, Finley’s team was only supposed to work on the home’s new addition. But an unusually strong storm blew the tarp off the structure mid-renovation, ruining many of the elements the young family of four had hoped to keep. It was undeniably a setback, but one that allowed Finley to go all-in on creating a unified home…

On the Sunny Side of the Street
How food retail can FLEX

How food retail can FLEX

The pandemic prompted major shifts across retail, serving as a crash course in designing for uncertain times. Perhaps one of the most notable changes has been the creation of flexible shop floors that can be rearranged or reinvented with relative ease and speed. While we’ve seen a move towards multifunctionality across a range of store concepts, supermarkets and food retailers are now trialling changeable spaces, too. This is in part because of the staggering growth of digital grocery – a market expected to reach a value of €223 billion by 2025 in the US alone, according to Insider Intelligence. As grocers grapple with the changing landscapes of commerce and consumer behaviour, remaining agile is allowing them to respond with new offerings and points of difference. STORES DESIGNED TO FLEX With their Flexstore model,…

SHOOT GOLDEN HOUR LANDSCAPES

SHOOT GOLDEN HOUR LANDSCAPES

DON’T MISS PART 2 Explore the second part of our Pro Masterclass in Issue 267, available 13th June Want to capture gorgeous landscape photos oozing with depth and atmosphere? While great landscapes can be captured at any time of the day, many photographers favour the golden hours – just before and after sunrise and sunset – when the light is warm and magical and the skies can be vibrant. Light found early and late in the day is both directional and soft – qualities that are hard to find together in any location with natural light at other times of the day. The sun’s low elevation casts long, inky shadows and contrast that shapes and defines the landscape, while skies tend to be at their most interesting and dramatic too.…

Slash Your Cancer Risk

Slash Your Cancer Risk

Cutting back on ultra-processed foods may help keep cancer at bay, per a study of nearly 200,000 adults. Every 10% increase in consumption of ultra-processed food was associated with a 2% greater chance of developing any of 34 cancers analyzed. Clues that a packaged product is ultra-processed: The nutrition label contains lots of hard-to-pronounce ingredients and things you wouldn’t use in a home kitchen, like high-fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils. You can also think about how far the food has come from its original form—for instance, corn is minimally processed, canned corn is processed, and corn chips are ultra-processed. You don’t have to give up your favorite chips and guac completely—just enjoy them in moderation.…

Top10 BEAUTY SPOTS

Top10 BEAUTY SPOTS

1 BAGNO VIGNONI HOT SPRINGS, VAL D’ORCIA While traditional towns may have a main town square in their centre, in Bagno Vignoni it is simply a huge thermal pool. Although this one can not be used, just steps away is the Parco dei Mulini for those who wish to take a dip in the thermal waters. Bagno Vignoni became a halting and refreshment point in Etruscan times for the numerous pilgrims on their way to Rome, when it was used both for personal hygiene and curing illnesses. A stunning beauty spot, the water is heated from underneath by the Earth’s crust. 2 MICHELANGELO’S DAVID, FLORENCE The most famous statue in the world, no trip to Florence would be complete without a visit to see this iconic figure. Standing at an…

Health Update: The Latest on Jamie Foxx’s Recovery

‘EVERYONE LOVES JAMIE AND IS HOPING FOR THE BEST. WE ARE ALL WORRIED ABOUT HIM’—A BACK IN ACTION SOURCE After being hospitalized in Atlanta on April 11 due to a medical situation, Jamie Foxx spoke out for the first time, sharing a message of hope. “Appreciate all the love!! Feeling blessed,” the actor and rapper, 55, posted on Instagram on May 3. Almost a month after his health crisis, the actor has yet to disclose any details about his condition, prompting well-wishes and worries among friends and fans. A source close to Foxx’s circle says the star “is stable and not in a life-threatening situation now.” But before the father of daughters Corinne, 29, and Anelise, 14, can be released, doctors “are doing more tests and want to be completely sure…

Health Update: The Latest on Jamie Foxx’s Recovery

Passion Project

Paoletti has been crafting unique guitars in Tuscany since 2005. Its founder, Fabrizio Paoletti, has a background in electrical engineering and automation, shares Filippo Martini, Paoletti’s managing director. “Guitar was a passion for him and still is today,” Filippo says. “That passion is also for the guitar as an instrument – its components, the way it plays, its sound; it fascinated him.” Fabrizio started small, but now Paoletti’s operations are housed in a sizable modern three-storey building. “Where we are now – in the middle of Tuscany, very close to Florence – isn’t where the company was established,” says Filippo. “This is the third headquarters of Paoletti Guitars. The first one was like a garage; the second one was three times a garage,” he laughs. “We moved here about a…

Passion Project

6 to apps to Change your life

Productive Free (IAPs) FROM apalon.com NEEDS iOS 13.5 or later One of the first steps for changing your life is to break the habits that no longer serve you and form positive new ones. For that, Productive can be a great help. It’s ideal for goals large and small helping you plan your day, giving you muchneeded motivation when you need it. There are habit-forming programmes to get you on track, and you can also pause and tweak goals. And if you want to know how you’re doing, there are also stats so you can check on your progress. Glassdoor Free FROM glassdoor.com FROM iOS 15 or later Want to switch employers? Glassdoor is the go-to app to help you find your dream job. Glassdoor combines detailed vacancy information –…

6 to apps to Change your life
US dances on the debt ceiling

US dances on the debt ceiling

What’s going on? As MoneyWeek went to press, the US federal government and Republicans in Congress remained locked in a stand-off over America’s self-imposed “debt ceiling” – the government’s borrowing limit (currently $31.4trn). The government actually hit the cap in January. Since then it has been using “extraordinary measures” to get round it (essentially fiscal accounting tools that curb certain government investments so that the bills continue to be paid). But now those measures have been exhausted and the point is close at which the US runs out of cash and can no longer issue new debt and pay its bills. The Biden administration wants the ceiling lifted; the Republicans (who have a majority in the House of Representatives) won’t agree unless they can extract political concessions and leverage over…

How the University of Oxford destroyed one of the world’s great cities

How the University of Oxford destroyed one of the world’s great cities

TO THE WEST OF OXFORD, NOT VERY FAR from the railway station and in the oddly-named Fridesewide Square, lies a fascinating building. Dating from the Edwardian era, its primary claim to fame is that it is where the peerless Frank Cooper’s Oxford marmalade was first produced. Subsequently, it has served as everything from an antiques market to its most recent incarnation as a bar, restaurant and arts space, bringing a touch of bohemian civilisation to a part of Oxford that often seems to have been neglected by the aesthetic. (Anyone who has shuddered and shivered through the station — a 1970s monstrosity that was revamped into a 1990s monstrosity that is now being rebuilt again — will know exactly what I mean.) The Jam Factory, as it was appropriately known,…

Hot Plots Preview!

Hot Plots Preview!

YOUNG AND RESTLESS Nate And Audra Conspire Nate arrives at Audra’s GCAC suite for another clandestine meeting, where he admits that he had a chat with Victor about Nate’s future at Newman Enterprises. “Audra assumes that a conversation like that with Victor couldn’t have gone well,” says Zuleyka Silver (Audra). “She hopes this doesn’t mean that Nate is on shaky ground now at Newman. She asks how bad was it.” On the contrary, Nate happily reports that the discussion was very positive. “Audra is surprised to hear that,” Silver admits. “Nate does say that Victor still grilled him about Victoria, but Nate feels he was able to come across as trustworthy and put some of Victor’s concerns at ease. Nate believes that it went well because he was very up front about his…

PIONEERING WOMEN

Hall of Fame ALL ABOUT THE GEORGIANS ELIZABETH RAFFALD 1733 -1781 Professional housekeeper, cook, confectioner, teacher, author; Elizabeth Raffald could be described by many job titles, but the most fitting is probably entrepreneur. Having spent some years working around Yorkshire, Raffald made her name in Manchester where she ran a shop and cookery school. She published her first cookbook in 1769, said to be a favourite of Queen Victoria's in later years. She went on to run an inn, carriage business, post office and started the local trade directory. Frances Burney 1752 - 1840 Before Jane Austen, there was Frances ‘Fanny’ Burney, the daughter of two musicians who used her experience growing up around the creative set of London to pen journals, letters and ultimately a novel dissecting life in London.…

PIONEERING WOMEN
Best of the Best

Best of the Best

We’ve all done it – bought a project that, in the pictures at least, looks to be a straightforward and quick build, but then turns into anything but. When chatting to Lee Masters, we both agreed it’s easy to look at pictures of a car advertised, and to build those images into something in our minds that isn’t really there. This pick-up is one of those stories, so let’s start at the beginning. Lee has been into VWs for a long time, but took a break for a few years to concentrate on other things, including his job as a commercial insurance broker. His clients include Andy ‘Spike’ Finch and John Brewster at JB’s Elite Fabrications. He also plays golf with Steve Thirkettle of 13 Stitches, so it was only…

AVOID COMMON MISTAKES

AVOID COMMON MISTAKES

“New photographers can get overwhelmed by all the new settings they have to employ to get a good exposure and get a little flustered and in some extreme cases, decide not to pick up a camera again.” Are you a new photographer? Have you just upgraded to a DSLR from your cameraphone and looking to take more inspired photos? We all have to start somewhere and chances are you’re not going to be creating sensational photographic works of art the moment you turn your new camera on. Despite professional photographers wanting us to believe it, they are not all born perfect master of their art. Mistakes happen, lessons have to be learned and experience has to be gained. It is also probably worth noting that you don’t have to be…

Queen Cleopatra: the casting is not the problem with Netflix’s docudrama

Netflix’s drama-documentary made headlines last month when the Egyptian government denounced it as a “historical fallacy”, because the show insists that Cleopatra was black, said Anita Singh in The Daily Telegraph. No one knows what colour Cleopatra’s skin was, but she is widely believed to have been of Greek-Macedonian descent. So what evidence has the series got to support its theory? Well, it mainly relies on the work of the American academic Shelley Haley who, in the first episode, recalls her grandmother telling her: “I don’t care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was black.” And that is that really. As for the rest of the series, it mixes talking heads with historical reconstruction, to explain why Cleopatra “was such a significant figure”. It does that well enough, but ultimately…

Queen Cleopatra: the casting is not the problem with Netflix’s docudrama

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CUSTOMISING YOUR HOME SCREEN

Who needs defaults? One of the best things about iOS is how much customisation it gives you over how your Home Screen and Lock Screen look and feel. Your iPhone’s built-in features go way beyond simply changing your wallpaper and calling it a day. Take a look under the hood and you’ll find that iOS lets you change far more than you thought was possible. For example, in iOS 16 you can place small widgets on your iPhone’s Lock Screen that show your activity rings, upcoming reminders, and much more. There are toggles to change Lock Screen fonts, wallpaper colours, gradients and effects, and even add wallpapers that sparkle with beautiful animated effects or show the weather in real time. That’s not all. You can also create custom Home Screens…

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CUSTOMISING YOUR HOME SCREEN

Don’t Say Gay

IN MISSOURI, THE STATE WHERE I GREW UP, lawmakers are debating a bill that would prevent any “nurse, counselor, teacher, principal, contracted personnel, or other administrative official at a public or charter school” from discussing “gender identity or sexual orientation” with a student unless they’re a licensed mental-health provider and they have the permission of the student’s parent or guardian. Missouri is one of 32 states to have introduced this kind of legislation, because I guess that’s how you fight inflation. I’m just going to say it, cancel me if you must: I am in full support of my home state’s Don’t Say Gay bill and the dozens of others like it. Don’t Say Gay? I say, “Yay.” Because I must assume these bills will increase penalties for kids who say “faggot”…

Don’t Say Gay

Wellbeing EMOTIONAL

Bianca has been helping people navigate change and transformation for over seven years. After a successful career helping design, deliver and implement large-scale organisational change and transformation, Bianca now coaches, trains and mentors women on how to create long-lasting change and transformation in their personal lives and careers. Specialising in self-discovery, personal development and wellbeing, Bianca is passionate about empowering women to successfully achieve their goals and aspirations. She provides a variety of online coaching and facilitation services to professional women, entrepreneurs and consultants, including personal and professional coaching, workshops, training and mentoring opportunities. Bianca’s approach to her practice is holistic in nature, looking beyond the surface to tap into your spiritual essence to unleash your untapped potential. As a result of her varied and wide-ranging skills, knowledge and experience,…

Wellbeing EMOTIONAL
CANARY WHARF, LONDON

CANARY WHARF, LONDON

The estates at Canary Wharf in London form the largest urban redevelopment project in Europe, with the revitalisation of millions of square feet of office, retail and living space. The creation of a 24/7 lifestyle led location is further boosted by the recent opening of the Elizabeth Line, so visitors are sure to flock there to experience the very best London has to offer. When Gillespies required a range of street furniture solutions over a strict schedule of lead times, Woodscapes considerable experience and dominant presence around many London developments, were evidence that we were well positioned to deliver on this project. The selection of street furniture is varied and impressive, from Parklets to Planters, Tables to Seat Toppers, the many combinations of powder-coated metalwork with the naturally very durable…

CASEY AND GRAY

finished size: 18” × 18” finished blocks: 2 (18”) BLOCKS My Goldendoodle Casey is the inspiration behind my dog and cat pillows. We don't have a cat, but I wanted to be sure cat lovers out there were represented as well. I designed these dog and cat blocks to be 15”, but I thought it might be fun to have an extra border to make them 18” square. The smallest piece in the blocks is 2”. Jen kid-friendly PROJECT Plan Cuddle up to these adorable pet pillows! If you're not a pillow person, skip the instructions for the pillow backs and turn them into petite wall hangings. Or combine several blocks to make a fun quilt. Jen has made her cat and dog designs so simple to assemble (with most units using the Stitch-and-Flip Corners technique found…

CASEY AND GRAY
CRISTIANO OF ARABIA

CRISTIANO OF ARABIA

More than 27,000 people were on their feet in Mecca, shouting “Siuuu!” at the top of their voices, as Cristiano Ronaldo celebrated his fourth goal of the game in trademark fashion. Al-Nassr were 4-0 up at relegation battlers Al-Wehda, but the home side’s fans didn’t seem all that bothered that they were on the receiving end of a tonking. CR7 was the unquestionable star. In their previous home match at the King Abdulaziz Sports City Stadium a fortnight earlier, Al-Wehda had lost 2-0 to Al-Fateh in front of a crowd of only 2,455. The holy city welcomes around a million visitors each year for Islam’s famous Hajj pilgrimage, but this time people had come to worship Ronaldo. In bagging the 61st hat-trick of his career to put Al-Nassr in total…

8 WEEKS TO SUMMER MUSCLE

DIRECTIONS: Do this workout 3 or 4 times a week, resting at least 1 day between sessions. On all other days, go for a 10-minute walk or run. WARMUP OVERHEAD DUMBBELL HIGH-KNEE MARCH Stand holding a dumbbell overhead in your left hand. Tighten your abs so you don’t arch your back. This is the start. March forward, making sure your knee goes higher than your hip on each step. Take 10 steps with each leg. Do 1 set per arm. TANK BY UNDER ARMOUR; SHORTS BY TEN THOUSAND; SNEAKERS BY PUMA. WORKOUT 1 LATERAL SHUFFLE TO SPRAWL Stand in an athletic stance, feet slightly wider than shoulder width, knees bent, abs tight. Shuffle 5 steps to the left, then immediately place your hands on the floor and lower your chest to the floor. Stand quickly, then shuffle…

8 WEEKS TO SUMMER MUSCLE

PICNIC PERFECT

SELF-DRAFT YOU WILL NEED ■ Main fabric: 60x115cm■ Lining fabric: 60x115cm■ Felt: 35cmx1m■ Cotton webbing: 1.60m■ Pre-made bias binding: 35cm■ D-rings: 3x 4cm■ Slider: 1x 4cm■ Magnetic clasp■ Matching thread■ Basic sewing kit NOTES ■ Seam allowance 1cm■ Measure the strap before cutting in order to adjust the size.■ Felt is used as a rigid wadding to give the bag some shape. You could use an alternative dense wadding for your backpack. RECOMMENDED FABRICS ■ Main fabric: Cotton, canvas, velvet■ Lining fabric: Cotton CUTTING OUT Step one From the main fabric cut: Front and Back Outer: two 35x35cmFront Pocket Outer: 35x24cm (WxH)Flap Outer: 26x20cm (WxH)Drawstring Channel: 34x6cm Step two From the lining fabric cut: Front and Back Lining: 35x35cm Front Pocket Lining: 35x24cm (WxH)Flap Lining: 26x20cm (WxH) Step three From…

PICNIC PERFECT
Should Your Start-up Be For-Profit or Nonprofit?

Should Your Start-up Be For-Profit or Nonprofit?

ABOUT THE ART The collage artist Mark Wagner uses deconstructed U.S. dollars to create intricate works of art. THERE ONCE WAS A time when “start-up” clearly referred to a new venture that sold a product, looked for investors, and aimed to turn a profit. A nonprofit was a completely different kind of enterprise—one that was funded through the largesse of donors, gave away its offerings, and had relatively few similarities to a traditional business. In recent decades those lines have blurred. Many nonprofits now provide products or services that compete with those of the best for-profit companies. Meanwhile, for-profit start-ups, often backed by “impact investors” who care about more than financial returns, can do as much good as traditional charities. As a result, when a socially minded entrepreneur starts an enterprise today,…

Model behaviour

KATE MOSS HAS BEEN THE FACE OF BRITISH beauty for more than 30 years. As a teen, she fronted Calvin Klein’s iconic Obsession campaign; by her early twenties, she had become our biggest modelling export; and for many years, her ‘London look’ was a powerful influence on a generation of young women’s make-up choices. She brought a cool insouciance to the glamorous gang of Nineties supermodels, becoming synonymous with festival chic and inspiring the ‘bed-head’ look that has arguably kept the dry-shampoo industry in business for decades. At every stage of her career, Moss has been the mistress of her own style. ‘The British beauty aesthetic and culture is all about celebrating and embracing your individuality – it’s what makes someone unique,’ says Moss, speaking to Bazaar from her Cotswolds home.…

Model behaviour
5 Easy Dinners

5 Easy Dinners

#1 / No-Bake Summer Veggie Lasagna ACTIVE TIME 25 MINUTES TOTAL TIME 25 MINUTES SERVES 4 ✓ Quick Cooking ✓ Vegetarian ✓ Family Friendly 6 7-by-3-in. lasagna noodlesCooking spray1 Tbsp. olive oil2 pints cherry tomatoes2 medium zucchini, chopped into ¼-in. pieces1 small yellow onion, finely chopped1 ½ tsp. kosher salt, divided, plus more for pasta water2 cloves garlic, finely chopped1 Tbsp. fresh oregano leaves, finely chopped, plus more for topping1 16-oz. container whole-milk ricotta cheese2 Tbsp. milkGrated pecorino Romano cheese, for serving COOK noodles in salted water according to package directions until just past al dente; drain. Place in a single layer on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray. MEANWHILE, heat oil in a large skillet over medium. Add tomatoes, zucchini, onion, and 1 teaspoon salt; cook, stirring occasionally, until tomatoes burst, 8 to…

The subway killing: a new front in the culture war

The subway killing: a new front in the culture war

It has been three years since a 17-year-old from Illinois shot dead two protesters during an anti-police riot in the Wisconsin town of Kenosha, said Jamelle Bouie in The New York Times. A court eventually decided that the gunman, Kyle Rittenhouse, had been acting in self-defence. But what troubled me at the time was the “jubilant reaction of conservative media” to the news that someone had taken the law into their own hands, and meted out “lethal violence against a perceived antagonist”. Now, we’re seeing that “bloodlust” all over again, in the case of Daniel Penny. A 24-year-old former US marine, Penny was on the New York subway earlier this month when a homeless man, Jordan Neely, began acting erratically. At some point, Penny placed Neely in a chokehold, which…

Opinion: Hey Siri, is Apple letting another AI opportunity pass by?

Opinion: Hey Siri, is Apple letting another AI opportunity pass by?

ChatGPT (fave.co/3AV5yUm) is all the tech world can talk about lately, and with good reason. The AI-powered tool is impressive, but there are plenty of worries too – copyright infringement, plagiarism, use in classrooms, even lost jobs, so it’s no wonder people who write for a living are stressing about AI that can seemingly write well. But there are also starry-eyed tech companies who see the future– the ability for computers to converse naturally and create content that businesses can actually use, at a scale, speed, and cost humans can’t possibly match. But ChatGPT, Google Bard (fave.co/3LEzVDC), and Microsoft’s Bing Chat (see page 34) are just one small part of the generative AI revolution. The art world has been buzzing about new generative AI art tools for the past year…

A VOLCANO MAY HAVE ERUPTED ON VENUS IN 1991

A VOLCANO MAY HAVE ERUPTED ON VENUS IN 1991

Venus’ landscape is littered with volcanoes that were clearly active in the past. But less clear is whether any are still erupting in the present. Many researchers have suspected this is the case, citing evidence of lava flows that appear relatively recent. But direct before-and-after evidence of an eruption had not emerged — until researchers found it while combing through archival data from NASA’s Magellan mission, which orbited the planet from Aug. 10, 1990, to Oct. 13, 1994. Robert Herrick, a planetary scientist at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks (UAF), reexamined the over 30-year-old data and presented the findings March 15 at the 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held in The Woodlands, Texas, and virtually. The results were published the same day in Science. Herrick compared February 1991 radar imagery…

HINGED RED CLAY BOX

You will need: ■ Paper or card to make templates ■ Pencil, ruler, craft knife ■ Clay of choice – we used red earthenware here for the contrast of colour when decorating ■ General tools and ribs ■ Ashort length of 2mm dowel DIFFICULTY RATING ★★★★★ 2 Prepare a block of clay large enough to accommodate all the parts of your box. Working on the plastic sheet, reduce the clay’s bulk by beating it with the side of the rolling pin. Work in measured, even strokes from one side of the clay to the other, to avoid making deep grooves in the surface. Roll out the clay between the 5mm-thick roller guides. You will find that periodically turning the slab will make rolling much easier and give you more…

HINGED RED CLAY BOX

Ultimate Secret Garden

Tendilla, Spain VERANDA World’s Most Beautiful GARDENS 2023 I FOUND SOMETHING AMAZING—you must come see,” Spanish interior designer Luis Puerta instructed his longtime collaborator landscape designer Álvaro Sampedro. As it turns out, recalls Sampedro, amazing was perhaps an understatement. Just 50 minutes outside of Madrid, Puerta had discovered a 17th-century palace in near ruin in a little village named Tendilla close to Guadalajara. Behind it, a “jungle, an incredible paradise,” notes Sampedro, in need of rescue. There were hints of an orchard, creeks, and a kitchen garden, he recalls, but whatever overarching design there may have once been had long succumbed to neglect. Near the outset of the six-year restoration project that followed, Sampedro made a serendipitous discovery of his own. “I uncovered old garden lines similar to the design of the chapel’s…

Ultimate Secret Garden

Go With Your Flow

Until recently, I’d been on some form of birth control since I was 13 (I’m 32 now). Now that I’ve stopped popping a little pill every day, I’m learning that while I may have skipped some of the not-so-fun aspects of a regular cycle (cramps and bloating, anyone?), I also didn’t get to experience the powerful parts, like bursts of energy and strength. I also never learned how to support my body through its various shifts. With periods making a consistent appearance again, I want to do all I can to have as pleasant an experience as possible. Enter: cycle syncing, a buzzy concept that has nothing to do with getting your period at the same time as a friend. Cycle syncing is the idea of matching how you eat, work, exercise,…

Go With Your Flow
Serbia acted after two mass shootings – yet the US still does nothing

Serbia acted after two mass shootings – yet the US still does nothing

Earlier this month, Serbia experienced two separate mass shootings that killed more than a dozen people, including children. Serbia, a nation tied for the third highest rate of gun ownership in the world, was shaken by this violence: mass shootings are not a daily occurrence. It did not take long for the president, Aleksandar Vučić, to take action, announcing several measures to prevent further tragedy. These include a ban on new gun permits, tougher penalties for illegal weapons possession, psychological checks of gun owners and an amnesty for the surrender of illegal weapons. It only took two days for Serbia to act. Why, after more than 200 mass shootings in 2023 alone, has the United States failed to take similar sweeping action? Day after day, the US experiences senseless gun violence and yet…

5. Everyone Suffers from Impostor Syndrome—Here’s How to Handle It

5. Everyone Suffers from Impostor Syndrome—Here’s How to Handle It

ONE OF THE greatest barriers to moving outside your comfort zone is the fear that you’re a poser, you’re not worthy, and you couldn’t possibly be qualified to do whatever you’re aiming to do. It’s a fear that strikes many of us: impostor syndrome. I know I’ve certainly had those thoughts while publishing pieces of writing, whether they are blogs or books. I’ve had them while teaching my first university classes and giving speeches to corporate audiences. I appear confident on the outside but feel deeply insecure on the inside, wondering who I am to be stepping up to this stage. What could I possibly have to say that anyone would want to hear? And I’m not alone. Actress (and Harvard alum) Natalie Portman described the self-doubt she experienced as a Harvard…

Jamie Foxx ‘Out of the Hospital’ and Playing Pickleball

One month after Jamie Foxx was hospitalized in Georgia for a “medical complication,” his daughter Corinne wrote on her Instagram Story May 12 that the Oscar winner, 55, has been “out of the hospital for weeks, recuperating.” While it remains unclear what caused Foxx’s health scare, Corinne added that he’s recovered enough to be playing pickleball. The day after she posted, Corinne, 29, along with Foxx’s younger daughter Annalise, 13, and Annalise’s mother, Kristin Grannis, were photographed in Chicago. The positive news continued on May 15 when the Fox network announced that the actor and Corinne will cohost the new game show We Are Family, which is set to debut in 2024. “He has a lot of projects going on,” says a source. “He gets things done.” CHRIS DELMAS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES; FOX…

Jamie Foxx ‘Out of the Hospital’ and Playing Pickleball

The secret power of ‘less is more’

As you unfurl your long to-do list, you instantly feel overwhelmed. And with all of your unanswered emails and endless responsibilities, you worry it would take weeks on a tropical island to ease your stress. While it’s easy to think “more is better” when it comes to relieving stress—that you need to devote ample time to anxiety-busting strategies—research suggests the brain can dial down tension and boost bliss in mere minutes. “Rather than making an unrealistic time commitment to stress relief, focusing on little adjustments throughout the day enhances our well-being the fastest, according to neuroscience,” confirms psychotherapist Heidi Schreiber-Pan, Ph.D., author of Breaking the Anxiety Cycle. Another perk of mini stressbusters is they reduce the hidden pressure women tend to put on themselves to relax in specific, culturally prescribed ways, adds…

The secret power of ‘less is more’

SILK ROAD DETOUR

At a site on the edge of southern Israel’s Arava Desert, archaeologists have unearthed a trash heap packed with an unprecedented quantity of discarded merchandise of the sort that was once traded along the medieval Silk Road. The site, called Nahal Omer, was a way station a day’s walk west of the city of Petra, in present-day Jordan. In two dig seasons there, University of Haifa archaeologist Guy Bar-Oz and his team have excavated cotton and silk fabric and other organic remains such as papyrus fragments and cotton ear swabs that came from India and China. To the team’s surprise, the textiles were radiocarbon dated to the seventh and eighth centuries A.D.—at least 300 years after the Roman-era route had largely fallen into disuse. This was a time of growing…

SILK ROAD DETOUR

IS THE METAVERSE SAFE FOR WOMEN?

There was snow all around her, and white caps topping the mountain peaks in the distance. The woman ascended to the top of a stone tower and looked out over the virtual world of QuiVr, a headset-based archery game. The game was vivid, enchanting. “Never had I experienced virtual reality that felt so real,” she wrote later, under the pseudonym Jordan Belamire. “I was smitten. I never wanted to leave this world.” From her perch atop the tower, she drew closer to the edge. “I took a single step off the ledge and…nothing happened. I didn’t fall, and I was walking on air. I was a god.” Soon, Belamire switched to a multiplayer version of the game. In QuiVr, player avatars at the time appeared as disembodied helmets, above floating hands…

IS THE METAVERSE SAFE FOR WOMEN?

3 WAYS WITH Pickles

Pickles are not just for garnishing burgers. Make the most of those jars in your cupboard with these clever recipes taken to the next level by using mouth-puckeringly tangy, briny pickles. 1 Cucumber, cornichon and pickled onion gazpacho We used a mixed jar of cornichons and mini pickled onions for this recipe, which often comes with mustard seeds in the brine, creating a pretty garnish for this refreshing chilled soup. SERVES 2 | PREP 15 MINS | COOK 5 MINS | EASY | V LC GF 250g cucumber, peeled50g avocado6 yellow tomatoes (we used Datterini)8 cornichons, 6 kept whole, 2 sliced, plus 2 tbsp of pickle brine 8 baby pickled onions, 6 kept whole, 2 quartered50ml olive oil, plus 1 tbsp large handful of basil, plus smaller leaves to garnish½…

3 WAYS WITH Pickles

THE CATSKILLS ARE CALLING

BEFORE MY VISIT to Wildflower Farms, a new resort in the Catskill Mountains, I had only ever seen one American kestrel. It was two years ago, while driving past an open field in upstate New York, and I had screeched to a halt to get a closer look—only for the bird to fly from its fence post in an instant. But on my first morning at Wildflower Farms, I spotted North America’s smallest raptor perched on a pole a mere 30 feet from the main building. It held still long enough for me to get a good look through my binoculars, as if it had been placed there by guest services. Later that day I would glimpse a bald eagle and one of its young swooping out of their nest…

THE CATSKILLS ARE CALLING
Romance Rules

Romance Rules

On May 4, Zendaya and Tom Holland kept it casual as they enjoyed a rare date night to watch an NBA playoff game in San Francisco. The secret to their success is keeping things low-key. “They’ve seen so many people in Hollywood not make it because of too much pressure and attention, and they want to avoid making that mistake,” a source tells Us of the actors, both 26, who’ve been linked since 2017. (They didn’t confirm their romance until 2021.) “After all this time, they still rarely walk the red carpet together. They also don’t share info about their [romance] on social media or talk about each other too much in interviews.” Adds the source, “The goal is to keep the spotlight off their relationship.”…

Explore the 10 nearest stars

Explore the 10 nearest stars

IF YOU WANT TO STUDY THE STARS, there’s no better place to start than close to home. After all, the nearest star is just 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away: the Sun. Its daily presence and predictable motions through the sky may make it seem like a boring, steady companion. But up close, it’s an incendiary tempest of roiling plasma, erupting with brilliant solar flares and mottled by darker sunspots — not to mention it’s the only star known (so far) to host a planetary system that includes an inhabited world. An estimated 200 billion trillion or so stars fill the known cosmos, but nearby stars attract a lot of attention from astronomers. “We are somehow attached naturally to things that are close by, to finding out what’s going on…

Bear attacks: the frightening side of rewilding

Bear attacks: the frightening side of rewilding

She was caught, “finally”, after they spotted paw prints in fresh snow, said Giampaolo Visetti in La Repubblica (Rome). Teams of forest rangers in the Alpine region of Italy had been hunting down a brown bear named JJ4 ever since she attacked and killed 26-year-old Andrea Papi as he jogged through the forest early last month. But her capture, on 18 April, marked the start of another saga, one that pits the provincial government against animal rights groups. The former issued a catch-and-kill order, but the latter have launched a court challenge against it. A final decision is expected on 11 May. The cruel irony of all this, said Tristan Kennedy in Wired, is that “were it not for a 25-year-old rewilding programme”, JJ4 would not have been in the Trentino…