What is the difference between excess and waste? Approximately 204 million pounds of turkey were expected to be discarded this Thanksgiving, which could cost the country’s sanitation departments up to $293 million. It costs even more money to cultivate turkeys in the first place—the carbon equivalent of driving
So Long, Diners of New York New York has half as many old school diners today as it did 20 years ago—the kind with affordable menus and international staff, not a slew of early a.m. DJ’s featured in a restaurant called Diner in Manhattan’s Meatpacking district.
The typical American consumes more than 100,000 words a day and remembers none of them.
Indian culture is under siege by Westerners enamored with yoga, authenticity, and convenience. The dosa—a beloved, inconvenient tradition—could be next to fall.
A generation of women read the “Harry Potter” series as teens, “Twilight” in college, and “Fifty Shades of Grey” in their twenties. What is the cumulative effect?
Magazine publishing is a dark art. But the world of niche publishing—people who create magazines for necrophiliacs or donkey hobbyists, or for those of us who like to ride really small trains—features its own requirements.
