Look: Here Comes the Sunscreen

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The 6th Floor Blog: Temp Workers, Permanent Problems

I found my first job out of college through a temp agency, which sent me to a brand-name bank where I stood in a windowless closet in a polyester-blend suit and heinous square-toed shoes filing carbons of personal portfolio data for individual-wealth-management...

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The 6th Floor Blog: “After ‘Before Midnight’”: A Short Screenplay

This week's Riff examines how time exists onscreen — including in the recent film "Before Midnight." That movie is the third in a trilogy, each produced nine years apart and each following two characters, Jesse and Celine, as their lives overlap...

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Look: Here Comes the Sunscreen

Adults wear sunscreen to reduce the threat of sun damage, skin cancer, uneven tan lines and wrinkles. Children wear it because they have to. Inspired by seeing his niece resist his brother's attempts to apply sunscreen, the photographer Nolan Conway...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Temp Workers, Permanent Problems

I found my first job out of college through a temp agency, which sent me to a brand-name bank where I stood in a windowless closet in a polyester-blend suit and heinous square-toed shoes filing carbons of personal portfolio data for individual-wealth-management...

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The 6th Floor Blog: “After ‘Before Midnight’”: A Short Screenplay

This week's Riff examines how time exists onscreen — including in the recent film "Before Midnight." That movie is the third in a trilogy, each produced nine years apart and each following two characters, Jesse and Celine, as their lives overlap...

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Innovation: Who Made That Kickstand?

Jens Mortensen for The New York Times "Like many bike accessories, the kickstand was reinvented various times," says David V. Herlihy, author of "Bicycle: The History." Herlihy likes to point to what is surely the world's first blueprint for a kickstand,...

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Lives: The Terror and Humiliation of Learning to Ride a Bike at 33

When my boyfriend moved to Brooklyn from San Francisco last fall, he left behind a two-person tent, several skateboards, a racing bike, a city bike and a motorcycle. He is outdoorsy and I am not, and his first New York winter was wretched. In California,...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Gilbert and Sullivan on the Black Sea

Sometimes you come across a book with a typo or a mistake or a translation error that is so delicious, it endears you to the text instead of distracting you. It happened to me with "On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe," by Andrzej Stasiuk...

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Max Brooks Is Not Kidding About the Zombie Apocalypse

Dan Winters for The New York Times "I've never seen a zombie movie where someone drank from a puddle and died of explosive diarrhea." Jonathan Sheldon Max Brooks, age 15, with his very famous (and very protective) parents in East Berlin in...

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Eat: Too Hot to Grill? Try the Slow Cooker

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The 6th Floor Blog: Past Forward: Mary Bonauto, ‘Bricklayer’ in the Fight Against DOMA

In his write-up on Slate of today's landmark Supreme Court decisions, Justin Peters urged revelers to remember Mary Bonauto. "Tonight, as proponents of same-sex marriage celebrate the decision, they should be sure to raise a glass to an attorney and...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Office Romance: A Post-It Note Is a Post-It Note Is a Post-It Note

Common office supplies, while they can seem indispensable, don't remain the same forever. It would be no easy task to find a typewriter sitting on someone's desk today. I doubt there is one in The New York Times building. Telex machines are gone, as...

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Eureka: Want to Understand Mortality? Look to the Chimps.

Pansy was probably in her 50s when she died, which is pretty good for a chimpanzee. She passed in a way most of us would envy — peacefully, with her adult daughter, Rosie, and her best friend, Blossom, by her side. Thirty years earlier, Pansy and Blossom...

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How to Succeed in the (Legal) Pot Business

Cut paper by Bovey Lee/Tom Schierlitz for The New York Times Brendan Kennedy and Michael Blue, private-equity financiers, settled into a downtown Seattle conference room in March to meet with a start-up. Both wore charcoal blazers and polished loafers....

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Look: ‘Live, From The House of Souvlaki ...’

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The 6th Floor Blog: Kids Love the Darndest Things

The students in Cathy Gabel's fifth-grade class at Central School in Mamaroneck, N.Y., have become fans of the magazine's regular ''Who Made That?'' column, which explores the origin stories of everyday objects. Earlier this year, some of the students...

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The 6th Floor Blog: The Man Who Captured a Times Square That Is No More

This weekend's Look section features rare photographs of the early "Saturday Night Live" cast hanging out in New York City in the mid-'70s. The pictures are from a larger series taken in Times Square by a photographer named Kenneth Siegel, who died at...

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Look: ‘Live, From The House of Souvlaki ...’

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The 6th Floor Blog: Kids Love the Darndest Things

The students in Cathy Gabel's fifth-grade class at Central School in Mamaroneck, N.Y., have become fans of the magazine's regular ''Who Made That?'' column, which explores the origin stories of everyday objects. Earlier this year, some of the students...

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The 6th Floor Blog: The Man Who Captured a Times Square That Is No More

This weekend's Look section features rare photographs of the early "Saturday Night Live" cast hanging out in New York City in the mid-'70s. The pictures are from a larger series taken in Times Square by a photographer named Kenneth Siegel, who died at...

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Look: ‘Live, From The House of Souvlaki ...’

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The 6th Floor Blog: Kids Love the Darndest Things

The students in Cathy Gabel's fifth-grade class at Central School in Mamaroneck, N.Y., have become fans of the magazine's regular ''Who Made That?'' column, which explores the origin stories of everyday objects. Earlier this year, some of the students...

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The 6th Floor Blog: The Man Who Captured a Times Square That Is No More

This weekend's Look section features rare photographs of the early "Saturday Night Live" cast hanging out in New York City in the mid-'70s. The pictures are from a larger series taken in Times Square by a photographer named Kenneth Siegel, who died at...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Milk’s Crowning Moment

The artist Matthew Booth's new video (below), "Milk Drop Coronet," is a 3-D view of Harold Edgerton's famous 1936 photograph of the same name; it captures the moment when a drop of milk splashes into the shape of a crown."Milk Drop Coronet," video on...

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The Obama Campaign’s Digital Masterminds Cash In

Illustrations by Steve McNiven. Colors by Andy Cotnam and Simon West. Earlier this year, senior members of President Barack Obama's campaign team took a trip to Las Vegas. Nevada holds a special place in Obama-wonk lore as the place where his monthslong...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Three Venerable Names From the Art World: Chuck Close, James Turrell and Polaroid Film

In early April, Chuck Close photographed James Turrell, a contemporary of his, for the cover of last weekend's issue using a 20-by-24 Polaroid camera. You might wonder how he was able to do so, given that Polaroid declared bankruptcy in 2008 and no more...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Bioblitzing in Mozambique

Last summer, the magazine featured some mighty impressive bugs from Mozambique — the pictures could've been casting shots for a "Starship Troopers" sequel. This month's National Geographic includes new photos (creepy-crawlies and more!) from the same...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Milk’s Crowning Moment

The artist Matthew Booth's new video (below), "Milk Drop Coronet," is a 3-D view of Harold Edgerton's famous 1936 photograph of the same name; it captures the moment when a drop of milk splashes into the shape of a crown."Milk Drop Coronet," video on...

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The Obama Campaign’s Digital Masterminds Cash In

Illustrations by Steve McNiven. Colors by Andy Cotnam and Simon West. Earlier this year, senior members of President Barack Obama's campaign team took a trip to Las Vegas. Nevada holds a special place in Obama-wonk lore as the place where his monthslong...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Milk’s Crowning Moment

The artist Matthew Booth's new video (below), "Milk Drop Coronet," is a 3-D view of Harold Edgerton's famous 1936 photograph of the same name; it captures the moment when a drop of milk splashes into the shape of a crown.Trying to see the milk-drop crown...

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The Price of Loyalty in Syria

Jehad Nga for The New York Times Ibtisam Ali Aboud (with her son Jafar) says that her husband, a Syrian Alawite, was killed by his Sunni friend. The Damascus neighborhood known as Mezze 86 is a dense, dilapidated warren of narrow hillside streets...

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Eat: The Perfect Scallop, Raw or Cooked

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Look: They Grow Up So Fast

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The 6th Floor Blog: Sam Dolnick and the Sports Desk Say What’s Meh

The Meh List continued its newsroom tour with a list this past weekend from Sam Dolnick, The Times's deputy sports editor who raised eyebrows as a guest editor by declaring guest editors "meh." As he did in his coverage of abuses in New Jersey's privatized...

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It’s the Economy: What Paintbrush Makers Know About How to Beat China

Illustration by Jasper Rietman As I toured Israel Kirschner's Bronx paintbrush factory earlier this month, I couldn't stop feeling amazed that it was still in business. Many days, Kirschner feels the same way. The charming, energetic 69-year-old...

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