Easy Kale Pasta Recipe – The New York Times

If you were ever put off by particularly old, fibrous kale leaves in a salad — the eternal chewing, the unpleasant dank green flavor — it’s hard to imagine that boiling the leaves and blitzing them with fried garlic, olive oil and Parmesan completely transforms them into a silky, luxurious sauce. OK, I’m sort of…

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Ralph Lauren Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

On Saturday, the United States of America’s clothier in chief met its commander in chief, as Ralph Lauren became the first fashion designer to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Dressed in a tweed blazer, a knit necktie and squishy dark sneakers, Mr. Lauren, 85, was described in an introduction as “classic yet creative, timeless…

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Can BAM Be a Trailblazer Again Through A. I.?

“A journalist finds himself in the woods.” Marc Da Costa, a digital artist with a Ph.D. in anthropology, was speaking from the controls of an artificial intelligence-driven video installation at the Onassis Foundation’s ONX Studio, a high-tech media lab in the Olympic Tower in Midtown Manhattan. He was talking to the computer that runs this…

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Telemedicine for Seniors Gets a Last-Minute Reprieve

Since his cancer diagnosis last year, Kent Manuel has regularly seen an oncologist near his home in Indianapolis. It’s been a tough time: After spinal surgery for paralysis caused by his cancer, he is regaining the use of his legs with physical therapy but still uses a wheelchair. Now, Mr. Manuel said, “I’m dealing with…

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Poke Bowl, Quick Kimchi and More Recipes

Hello, and happy Saturday! Is everyone feeling bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, having fully shaken off the cobwebs of the last year, and eager to take on the adventures that await in 2025? Yeah, me neither. I can’t say that I’m feeling ready for a new year. (There are still folded stacks of 2024 laundry that need…

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