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 S48A Michelin-starred chef, Gucci table settings and donated food   It was just after 17:00 on a mid-September evening at the historical Emanuel AME Church in Harlem, New York City. But instead of parishioners seated in pews waiting for a sermon, members of the surrounding, mostly low-income Black neighbourhood were sat at dining tables on chairs upholstered in blue and red patterned Gucci fabric while artworks like Carlo Benvenuto's pane metafisico (metaphysical bread) adorned the walls. In front of them was a menu listing three courses: caramelised onion and Pecorino tart; roasted chicken with Brussel sprouts and butternut squash puree; and vegan chocolate cake.Each dish was prepared with "leftover" ingredients, offered free of charge and placed alongside a coordinating blue cloth napkin with a tag that read, "you are loved" in hand-written script.
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S35Daily range isn't a problem with the 2024 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV  What to make of Mitsubishi, now we're almost a quarter of the way into this century? For enthusiasts of a certain age, the brand is synonymous with rallying and fire-breathing all-wheel drive sedans with extremely short service intervals. To my old driving instructor, Mitsubishi was the Mercedes of Japan. And a Mitsubishi was even the first electric vehicle I reviewed for Ars, way back in 2012.
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S61Vivek Ramaswamy is the millionaire millennial running for US president. Is he running towards a career low?  “I am launching not only a political campaign but a cultural movement to create a new American Dream.” This was Vivek Ramaswamy’s rallying cry as he launched his bid for the Republican party’s presidential nomination.Ahead of the first US Republican primary in Iowa on January 15, Ramaswamy continues to pitch himself as a young radical who will abolish the FBI, the Department of Education, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Food and Nutrition Service.
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S63A brief history of time - as told by a watchmaker  I once restored a 1950s timepiece for a customer who waxed lyrical about the intricacies of my work – all the while refusing to pay. They baulked when I presented them with the bill we’d previously agreed. Then they garbled on about the philosophical nature of time, still resisting payment. It was during that wistful, skyward narrative that I saw the timepiece slip from their hand and hit the marble floor. The mineral glass shattered, sending the hands spiralling. Sunlight streamed in from the winter setting Sun – its sharp, angular rays reminding me of how our ancient ancestors marked the passing of time.
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S46 MIT SMR's 10 AI Must-Reads for 2023  The winter 2024 issue features a special report on sustainability, and provides insights on developing leadership skills, recognizing and addressing caste discrimination, and engaging in strategic planning and execution.The winter 2024 issue features a special report on sustainability, and provides insights on developing leadership skills, recognizing and addressing caste discrimination, and engaging in strategic planning and execution.No topic dominated the business world in 2023 like artificial intelligence. And no AI product has ever scaled like OpenAI's ChatGPT: After its November 2022 release, ChapGPT attracted an estimated 100 million monthly users inside of two months. In November 2023, the company declared that it had 100 million weekly active users, including developers at more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. You can learn what ChatGPT can and can't do with business strategy questions by reading our No. 1 article of the past year.
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S32Chinese smartphone company says it wants to build a Porsche challenger  Xiaomi, a Chinese maker of consumer electronics perhaps best known for taking plenty of inspiration from Apple, is getting into the automotive industry. Earlier today in Beijing, Xaiomi CEO Lei Jun debuted the Speed Ultra 7, a luxury electric vehicle that's squarely aimed at the spot in the market currently served by the Porsche Taycan and Tesla Model S sedans.
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S26What was it like when the cosmic dark ages ended?  Forming stars sounds like the easiest thing in the Universe to do, given enough time. However, making stars that are actually visible to an observer is, perhaps surprisingly, a lot more challenging. Once you get a sufficiently large amount of mass together, so long as you give it enough time to gravitate, you’ll be able to watch it collapse down into small, dense clumps. If enough mass comes together in those clumps under the right conditions, stars will no doubt ensue. This is how you form stars today, and it’s how we’ve formed stars all throughout our cosmic history, going back to the very first ones some 50-100 million years after the Big Bang.But even with the first stars burning, as they go about fusing hydrogen into heavier elements and converting that energy into a form that results in the emission of tremendous amounts of light, those stars aren’t necessarily visible to anyone around to observe them. The Universe is simply too good at absorbing and blocking that light. The reason? All of the atoms in the Universe, during the time that the first stars exist, are neutral, and there are simply too many of them for the starlight to penetrate. It took hundreds of millions of years for the Universe to allow that light to freely pass through it: a time known (from the perspective of light) as the cosmic dark ages, but known (from the perspective of atoms) as the epoch of reionization. It’s a vital part of the cosmic story of us whose importance is greatly underappreciated.
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S40America Should Be More Like Operation Warp Speed  The extraordinary success of the quest for the COVID-19 vaccine holds lessons for the rest of the government.The U.S. government can achieve great things quickly when it has to. In November 2020, the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency-use authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19. Seven days later, a competing vaccine from Moderna was approved. The rollout to the public began a few weeks later. The desperate search for a vaccine had been orchestrated by Operation Warp Speed, an initiative announced by the Trump administration that May. Developing, testing, manufacturing, and deploying a new vaccine typically takes a decade or more. OWS, which accomplished the feat in months, belongs in the pantheon of U.S. innovation triumphs, along with the Manhattan Project and the Apollo moon-landing program. It’s a case study in how the U.S. government can solve complex, urgent problems, and it challenges the narrative that public institutions have lost their ability to dream big and move fast.
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S58Black Panther, Wakanda Forever and the problem with Hollywood - an African perspective  Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever were global hits that played out in an imaginary African kingdom and feature a universe of black creative talent. What’s not to love about the franchise? Quite a lot, reckons cultural and literary studies scholar Jeanne-Marie Viljoen. We asked her to explain.Even though the Black Panther films didn’t represent Africans on their own complex terms, they’re still a major cultural phenomenon. They bring issues of racial representation into the spotlight for Hollywood’s still largely white audiences. They do so through the use of Black talent, both in front of and behind the camera.
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S34Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit  Google has indicated that it is ready to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 over its Chrome browser's Incognito mode. Arising in the Northern District of California, the lawsuit accused Google of continuing to "track, collect, and identify [users'] browsing data in real time" even when they had opened a new Incognito window.
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S30Researchers come up with better idea to prevent AirTag stalking  Apple's AirTags are meant to help you effortlessly find your keys or track your luggage. But the same features that make them easy to deploy and inconspicuous in your daily life have also allowed them to be abused as a sinister tracking tool that domestic abusers and criminals can use to stalk their targets.
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S37FDA would like to stop finding Viagra in supplements sold on Amazon  If you were to search for a product called “Mens Maximum Energy Supplement" on Amazon, you'd be bombarded with everything from caffeine pills to amino acid supplements to the latest herb craze. But at some point last year, the FDA had purchased a specific product by that name from Amazon and sent it off to one of its labs to find out if the self-proclaimed "dietary supplement" contained anything that would actually boost energy.
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S292023 was the year that GPUs stood still  In many ways, 2023 was a long-awaited return to normalcy for people who build their own gaming and/or workstation PCs. For the entire year, most mainstream components have been available at or a little under their official retail prices, making it possible to build all kinds of PCs at relatively reasonable prices without worrying about restocks or waiting for discounts. It was a welcome continuation of some GPU trends that started in 2022. Nvidia, AMD, and Intel could release a new GPU, and you could consistently buy that GPU for roughly what it was supposed to cost.
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S59They're serving what?! How the c-word went from camp to internet mainstream  If someone told you that you were “serving cunt”, would you be offended? Despite the inclusion of the c-word, this phrase isn’t meant as an insult or a misogynistic slur. In fact, it is quite the opposite – at least, among those in queer communities who have long used it.The phrase describes someone displaying characteristics such as being confident, sassy or fierce. It’s a state of mind – a stance anyone can embody, regardless of gender.
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S60The care home sector got  The Coronavirus public inquiry has made public all manner of decisions taken by the UK government, during the pandemic, that have shocked the nation.In particular, Jenny Harries, current head of the UK Health Security Agency, has been accused of failing to protect care home residents, when it emerged that, as England’s deputy chief medical officer, she suggested in March 2020 that COVID-infected patients be discharged from hospital to care homes if the NHS were to be overwhelmed.
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S42The Bizarre Tragedy of Children's Movies  Films such as The Lion King, Bambi, and Up all have upsetting moments. That doesn’t mean they’re bad for young viewers.A few weeks ago, I came across a GIF from the 1994 film The Lion King that made me weep. It shows the lion cub Simba moments after he discovers the lifeless body of his father, Mufasa; he nuzzles under Mufasa’s limp arm and then lies down beside him. I was immediately distraught at that scene, and my memories of the ones that follow: Simba pawing at his dead father’s face, Simba pleading with him to “get up.”
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S33S49Discover the five best ramen spots in Tokyo  Ramen might be Japan's best-adapted import. A version of Chinese wheat noodle soups said to have reached Japan via Yokohama's Chinatown in the late 1800s or early 1900s, it has become the ultimate Japanese comfort food.For some, the frenzied slurping of noodles from a piping-hot soup is the culinary hug that makes a bad morning in the office feel better. For others, it's a satisfying (and cheap) way to cap a day out with friends or recover from a night of drinking. Some will even wait in line for hours to try the noodles at a famous ramen joint.
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S50Prince Harry's Spare, Gwyneth's trial and Try That In a Small Town: 11 of the most controversial culture moments of 2023  Arts and culture may be a sanctum from the trials of daily life for many, but that is not to say they can't cause as much debate and consternation as they can provide comfort and joy. So here are 11 moments from within the cultural sphere that really created a commotion this year:He may have quit the British Royal Family and moved to California with his wife Meghan and their children, but the Duke of Sussex proved he was far from leaving the past behind him, when in January he released his autobiography Spare, and pulled no punches. Bearing the Prince's distinct tone of voice and turn of phrase, the book – though ghost-written by JR Moehringer – was as candid as they come, generating acres of headlines with its more sensational stories, revelations and claims. From detailing his alleged fisticuffs with the Prince of Wales to a case of frostbite on his genitalia during Prince William and Catherine's wedding, there was seemingly no filter applied. Perhaps as a result, according to Guinness World Records, Spare became "the fastest selling non-fiction book of all time" on the date of its release. But while Prince Harry will have been celebrating his literary success, his father King Charles III was reported to be "hurt and dismayed" by the publication. And the year was literally book-ended by scandalous royal tomes, when in December royal reporter Omid Scobie released his own book, Endgame. It again detailed alleged royal tensions, and caused particular controversy when a Dutch edition of the book was erroneously published naming King Charles and Catherine as the royals who allegedly discussed the potential skin colour of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's first child.
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S39Valentine  The deer in the snow turned away from my flashlight and kettle to let me fight with the ice alone. I was thinking of you then, of your sleeping head, of your maskless mouth. I used to think your heart was like an old waterway always locking and filling up, but it’s not just one thing —it could be this kettle. It could be the steam in the dark. The light bouncing around the branches at midnight. Mine might be an ancient furnace. The bunny tracks running up from the bramble to the catalpa. That tree will bloom in June. White clouds tacked on a knotty frame. Broad leaves with no teeth or lobes. I’ll remember then, the bunnies living in its roots, the furnace resting beyond the green crawl-space doors, and I’ll reach for your radiant hand before supper because that’s when we say grace.
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S25The Best Slow Cookers for People Who Don't Have Time To Cook  If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDSlow, low-heat cooking is perfect for delicious one-pot dishes and getting the best flavor from cheaper cuts of meat such as lamb shoulder or chicken thighs. With intuitive control panels, the best appliances allow you to throw all the ingredients into the pot, turn it on, and get on with your day while your food simmers along nicely. Prep your recipe in the morning and the keep-warm setting will ensure you have a home-cooked evening meal that’s piping hot and ready to serve come nightfall. Then all you need to do is dish up praise for your efforts from everyone at the dinner table.
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S45S3640% of US electricity is now emissions-free  Just before the holiday break, the US Energy Information Agency released data on the country's electrical generation. Because of delays in reporting, the monthly data runs through October, so it doesn't provide a complete picture of the changes we've seen in 2023. But some of the trends now seem locked in for the year: wind and solar are likely to be in a dead heat with coal, and all carbon-emissions-free sources combined will account for roughly 40 percent of US electricity production.
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S47Panic and possibility: What workers learned about AI in 2023  It has been just more than a year since OpenAI launched its chatbot, ChatGPT, yet the technology is already top of mind for most workers. In many cases, it's become a part of their daily routines.AI has gone from feeling like an abstract idea to a familiar tool that can streamline workflows and generate new ideas. But not everyone has welcomed the technology, and instead see it as a threat to their very careers. It's a push-and-pull that's defined this year.
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S4S57S19Our favorite Rest of World photos from 2023  Technology is reshaping the daily lives of the 4 billion people living outside the West. You can see it through the lenses of Rest of World’s photographers: From the quiet corners of coworking spaces in Colombia to talking card readers in India to large-scale water-guzzling EV factories and emoji-shaped pinãtas in Mexico.In 2023, we sent 39 photographers to 31 cities and 22 countries, from Uganda to Iraq. Our photographers went to India in search of scam call centers and met with a crypto pastor in an Argentine prison.
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S31Otherworldly mini-Yellowstone found in the deep sea  Spectacular scenery, from lush rainforests to towering mountain ranges, dots the surface of our planet. But some of Earth’s most iconic landmarks––ones that may harbor clues to the origin of life on Earth and possibly elsewhere––lay hidden at the bottom of the ocean. Scientists recently found one such treasure in Ecuadorian waters: a submerged mini Yellowstone called Sendero del Cangrejo.
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S56S69A Sense of Mystery and Wonder in a New "Color Purple"  The prime success of the new movie version of "The Color Purple" is its tone: it plays like legend, filtered through the pleasure and the pain of the telling. It's a musical, adapted from Alice Walker's novel and from Marsha Norman's book for the stage play (which is also a musical and provides the new movie with most of its songs). The interjections and interminglings of the musical sequences in the drama endow the story with narrative distance along with its emotional immediacy; this distance from within seemingly conveys the very notion of adaptation, the feeling of tales retold, reimagined, relived. The movie's director, Blitz Bazawuleâmaking only his second feature, following his ultra-low-budget dramatic fantasy "The Burial of Kojo," from 2018âcatches the sense of mysteries and wonders in his characters' lives, which are filled with extremes of sorrow and joy, with deep bonds of love, with enduring traditions, with collective memories spanning the land and baked into the bone.Bazawule starts the movie with a symbol clashâthe overhead view of a man on horseback, bearing a banjo, ambling slowly along a hard-baked dirt road, passing two girls in white dresses sitting in a tree and singing playfully, on Sunday morning, fretting about being late for churchâas, moments thereafter, a nearby group of women in backlight make their way down the road singing a rollicking gospel-inflected song. From the start, Bazawule suggests the conflicts between secular and religious Black American culture, between the spirit and the flesh, and between men's and women's worldsâand he does so by way of a crucial reference to one of the great works of art on these very themes, Julie Dash's 1991 film "Daughters of the Dust." Bazawule's adaptation of "The Color Purple" is set mainly in a small town on the Georgia coast; the story runs nearly forty years, from 1909 to 1947, and many of its images pay visual and tonal homage to Dash's movie (her sole Hollywood feature to date)âwomen on the beach, wearing white and light-colored lacy dresses, amid sere and stark trees, gathering spontaneously in formations of a hieratic splendor. (Even the image of the two girls that's part of the movie's extended and swooping first shot is a nod to a similar one from Dash's film.) With "Daughters," Dash places Black Americans' intimate dramas in a mighty historical arc with metaphysical dimensions; with his "Color Purple," Bazawule acknowledges Dash's work as a landmark in that history and a fundamental inspiration in his approach to historical drama.
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S54How to get the most out of a visit to an art gallery with kids  In our house we have a favourite story about the time our toddler was dragged from the National Portrait Gallery kicking and screaming “I want to see more paintings!!!” She needed lunch, we had to go, but she really loved the “Nick Cave Gallery”, as she called it, with his luminous portrait by Howard Arkley on display.
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S65Being an 'authentic' CEO is a job in itself for women  Late last year I ended an almost six-year stint as a public- and policy-facing CEO in London to move to the countryside and work part-time. Prior to that, I’d spent three decades rising up the ranks in the media and university leadership. It has taken a clean break from the boardroom to clear the mental clutter. One bizarre realisation that has bubbled up is that I haven’t seen my natural hair colour in 40 years.Like so many of my female contemporaries who began work in the 1970s and 80s, I found it necessary to conceal some personal characteristics and perform others to achieve seniority, then maintain it. This reminds me of a boss I once worked for and admired. On “dress down Fridays”, this powerful, experienced manager rocked up in an impeccable denim two-piece with shoulder pads and a silk business-dress shirt. In the same way, for decades I’ve masked parts of who I really am at work – how I look, sound and naturally act.
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S41Should You Teach Your Kid to Make a Schedule?  For the holidays, Radio Atlantic is sharing the first episode of the Atlantic podcast How to Keep Time. Co-hosts Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost, an Atlantic contributing writer, examine our relationship with time and what we can do to reclaim it.In its first episode, they explore the idea of “wasting” time. But first, Radio Atlantic host Hanna Rosin has a question: Is teaching scheduling to a child a bad idea?
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S51S44What Gen Z Is Finding at the Library  This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.In the smartphone era, libraries might seem less central. But it turns out that young people actually use them.
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S13S17Did Australia's boomerangs pave the way for flight?  The aircraft is one of the most significant developments of modern society, enabling people, goods and ideas to fly around the world far more efficiently than ever before. The first successful piloted flight took off in 1903 in North Carolina, but a 10,000-year-old hunting tool likely developed by Aboriginal Australians may have held the key to its lift-off. As early aviators discovered, the secret to flight is balancing the flow of air. Therefore, an aircraft's wings, tail or propeller blades are often shaped in a specially designed, curved manner called an aerofoil that lifts the plane up and allows it to drag or turn to the side as it moves through the air.
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S16Message sticks: Australia's ancient unwritten language  The continent of Australia is home to more than 250 spoken Indigenous languages and 800 dialects. Yet, one of its linguistic cornerstones wasn't spoken, but carved.Known as message sticks, these flat, rounded and oblong pieces of wood were etched with ornate images on both sides that conveyed important messages and held the stories of the continent's Aboriginal people – considered the world's oldest continuous living culture. Message sticks are believed to be thousands of years old and were typically carried by messengers over long distances to reinforce oral histories or deliver news between Aboriginal nations or language groups.
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S62How a French rabbi helped build a thriving Jewish community in medieval York -  On the last night of Hanukkah 2023, a service was held in York on the site of the 12th-13th century Jewbury cemetery. The event was led by Rabbi Elisheva Salamo, the first rabbi to live in York for over 700 years.Prayers were said and 150 candles lit for the people known to have died in the pogrom at Clifford’s Tower in 1190. In the history of England’s Jewish communities, York is forever linked with this period of murderous antisemitism.
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