Eat: New York Dals

Sam Kaplan for The New York Times. Food stylist: Brett Kurzweil. Prop stylist: Randi Brookman Harris. It is not that I've never cooked dal, the family of Indian legume dishes that is a staple for the hundreds of millions of vegetarians of India,...

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Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?

Takashi Murai The "immortal jellyfish" can transform itself back into a polyp and begin life anew. After more than 4,000 years — almost since the dawn of recorded time, when Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh that the secret to immortality lay in a coral...

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The Autism Advantage

Joachim Ladefoged/VII, for The New York Times Thorkil Sonne and his son Lars, who has autism, at home in Ringsted, Denmark. When Thorkil Sonne and his wife, Annette, learned that their 3-year-old son, Lars, had autism, they did what any parent...

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The 6th Floor Blog: From Print to Music Making

Last night, Dan Kaufman, a research editor here and the author of an article in May about Wisconsin politics, performed at Le Poisson Rouge with his band, Barbez. Gabrielle Plucknette, a member of the photo department, was there to document the occasion.Dan...

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Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again

Richard Burbridge for The New York Times "Come on, that's such a canard, you know that," Oliver Stone said. " 'The Greatest Generation?' That was the biggest publishing hoax of all. It's to sell books." This seemingly sacrosanct term was coined...

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Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?

Takashi Murai The "immortal jellyfish" can transform itself back into a polyp and begin life anew. After more than 4,000 years — almost since the dawn of recorded time, when Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh that the secret to immortality lay in a coral...

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The 6th Floor Blog: How to Read Like a Monkey Man

Jon Mooallem is a contributing writer for the magazine. His last article was about an escaped macaque in Tampa Bay, who has since been caught. Book I'm reading now: "The Silent History," by Eli Horowitz, Russell Quinn, Matthew Derby and Kevin Moffett....

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The One-Page Magazine: Obama’s Ticking Clock

THE BIG PROFILE: CHRIS CORNELL By Dave Itzkoff Over the years, Chris Cornell has learned to keep his growly, grungy singing voice in top condition. "Obviously, don't do anything stupid that's destructive," says the frontman of Soundgarden, which...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Matt Damon and Gus Van Sant. Tonight. Right Here. On the Blog.

Hugo Lindgren, the editor of the magazine, is interviewing the director Gus Van Sant and the actor Matt Damon (you can tell he is an actor by the way that he is acting in the magazine's "14 Actors Acting" package) about their third film together, "Promised...

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Design: Who Made That Emoticon?

  "The first line of my obituary is going to mention the smiley face," says Scott Fahlman, who would rather be remembered for his research into artificial intelligence. But like it or not, Fahlman has become famous for three keystrokes. In 1982,...

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The Hard Life of an N.F.L. Long Shot

Christaan Felber for The New York Times Pat Schiller Click the links in this article to launch multimedia extras including game highlights, video interviews and additional photographs. Christaan Felber for The New York Times Pat Schiller,...

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Eureka: The Wild Life of American Cities

Illustration by Sara Cwynar One of America's hottest cities and one of its coldest may have more in common than you would guess. In places like Phoenix and Minneapolis, scientists think that cities are starting to look alike in ways that have nothing...

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The One-Page Magazine: Obama’s Ticking Clock

THE BIG PROFILE: CHRIS CORNELL By Dave Itzkoff Over the years, Chris Cornell has learned to keep his growly, grungy singing voice in top condition. "Obviously, don't do anything stupid that's destructive," says the frontman of Soundgarden, which...

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Alexis Rockman’s Visual Inspiration for ‘Life of Pi’

Gabrielle Plucknette/The New York Times Artwork by Alexis Rockman For nearly three decades, Alexis Rockman has been painting what he calls "natural-history psychedelia" — dinosaurlike descendants of rabbits and roosters; a chimera of an alligator,...

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The Subway Beauty Salon

In taking photographs of subway riders, Jeff Mermelstein opted against furtiveness. "I felt like if I got caught in the confines of a subway car, I can get in more trouble than I'm wanting to deal with at this age," he says. But many of his subjects...

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Reply All | Letters: The 11.11.12 Issue

As a native of Oklahoma City, I appreciated the way that you wrote about our city. We often feel we are unrecognized as a modern American place, with all the contradictions, sophistication, red, blue, etc., that characterize any city of 1.3 million people....

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The One-Page Magazine: Obama’s Ticking Clock

THE BIG PROFILE: CHRIS CORNELL By Dave Itzkoff Over the years, Chris Cornell has learned to keep his growly, grungy singing voice in top condition. "Obviously, don't do anything stupid that's destructive," says the frontman of Soundgarden, which...

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Alexis Rockman’s Visual Inspiration for ‘Life of Pi’

Gabrielle Plucknette/The New York Times Artwork by Alexis Rockman For nearly three decades, Alexis Rockman has been painting what he calls "natural-history psychedelia" — dinosaurlike descendants of rabbits and roosters; a chimera of an alligator,...

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Psychotherapy’s Image Problem Pushes Some Therapists to Become ‘Brands’

Illustration by Matt Dorfman. Photograph by Jens Mortensen for The New York Times. In the summer of 2011, after I completed six years of graduate school and internship training and was about to start my psychotherapy practice, I sat down with my...

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On the Couch in the Capital

Washington has the deserved reputation of being a hard-working, early-rising town, and among the earliest risers are some of the approximately 1,200 psychiatrists in the metropolitan area who minister to the powerful and famous before their official...

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Design: Who Made That Emoticon?

  "The first line of my obituary is going to mention the smiley face," says Scott Fahlman, who would rather be remembered for his research into artificial intelligence. But like it or not, Fahlman has become famous for three keystrokes. In 1982,...

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