So you think that war has evolved in dizzying, dismaying ways, do you? That drones fire missiles, nukes proliferate, nonstate players and rogue states share unholy alliances, bomb-laden terrorists seek martyrdom, the Russians and Chinese connive and oil politics looms over all while the United States is caught like a geopolitical deer in the headlights? [...]

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Knit Noro Accessories is a new book from the editors of Vogue Knitting and Sixth Spring Books. Noro is legendary  yarn from Japan. Most of the Noro yarn I’ve seen is silk. It’s made by Eisaku Noro, dyed by hand into self-striping masterpieces of color. You can buy it in fine yarn shops, and it’s [...]

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Say there was a practice, something you could do every day, that would help you be more awake, more aware of what is going on in your life, less distracted — but didn’t require any additional time. You could do it while you went about your day doing the other things you need or want [...]

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When ABC Sports guru Roone Arledge was suggesting Howard Cosell for “Monday Night Football,” NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle replied: “Cosell? Why don’t you just dig up Attila the Hun?” Such was the reaction generated by modern broadcasting’s first Category 5 hurricane: How-wuuuud Co-sellll. If the very memory of his nasal delivery is a form of [...]

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If you’ve heard that there’s a “garbage patch” twice the size of Texas floating around in the Pacific Ocean, it’s because Capt. Charles Moore has been working very hard to make sure that you do. Moore charts his journey from concerned mariner to active citizen scientist in Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery [...]

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