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Jacques de Gheyn II, Vanitas Still Life (detail), 1603, oil on wood, 32 1/2 x 21 1/4″. With vanishing on my mind, I crossed Central Park to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a late autumn morning on a sober errand. Ginkgo leaves, freshly fallen, coated my path. My root-word…

Photo: kavalenkava/Shutterstock While nonessential travel has come to an abrupt stop around the world, Europe’s three Baltic countries will restart movement between their countries next week. Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia have been on the steady road to recovery, and their regional initiative is a start on the path to normalcy.…

There’s 15-year-old Precious from the Netherlands… And Bubble from Australia, age 4… Yeasty Beasty Methuselah, from Twin Falls, Idaho, is estimated to be around 50… Every sourdough starter is special to the ones who made or maintain it, but of the 1000s registered online with Quest for Sourdough, only 125 have earned a…

People wear face masks to protect against the new coronavirus as they sit on a carnival ride at a ... public park in Beijing, Saturday, May 2, 2020. Five months after the new SARS was discovered, China is still not back to normal. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) ASSOCIATED PRESS If you…

About | Analyzing Apple's next moves We’re all adjusting to a new normal, and Apple could make some adjustments for its devices to help. Apple Today's Best Tech Deals Picked by Macworld's Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect's Editors These last several weeks have meant a lot…

“There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy… the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul… the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos,” Paul Goodman wrote half a century ago in his taxonomy of the nine kinds of silence. Like silence, sadness too…

(CNN)Never before have so many people in the world lived in such tiny bubbles. With billions across the globe now under coronavirus-related restrictions, it has been weeks — or even months for some — since we socialized with anyone outside our homes.That's a lot of family time. Or time alone.But…

Getty The global onslaught of the Coronavirus has added much uncertainty to the outlook for the economy, and along with it, an abundance of market doomsayers. Keep in mind that while it is possible this is what does us in, as the saying goes, the world only ends once. Granted…

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Tribeca: Etyan Fox's understated gay drama finds two men from different generations and cultures briefly finding common ground. Israeli cinema has often wrestled with the complex nature of its youth culture, and while last year’s “Synonyms” set a high bar, Etyan Fox got there much earlier. The filmmaker’s 2002 “Yossi…