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Ashley Graham is proud to have been the first pregnant model to walk in a Tommy Hilfiger runway show.

Via the New York Times:
The future of a tuberculosis vaccine and research into other neglected diseases is in limbo after a Seattle institute abruptly laid off about one-third of its researchers, citing a financial crisis. The sudden staff cutbacks late last month at the Infectious Disease Research Institute have baffled many of the scientists — who were also working on a vaccine for leprosy and research into tropical diseases. The layoffs on the day before Thanksgiving also put in jeopardy federal grants for the scientists’ work. Читать дальше...

The power of nature keeps amazing us with thunderstorms and lightning usually producing gusty winds, heavy rain and sometimes even hail.

The Morrison government has abandoned a key part of its budget strategy to give itself more financial firepower to deal with shocks.

While fairness and accessibility are important, they shouldn't come at the expense of creativity and critical thinking.

If you need any better proof that code is art, look no further than how the programmers view their mistakes. Just as the world is filled with wildly divergent opinions about painters, architects, writers, and poets, the realm of programmers can’t agree upon much beyond the requirement that the code doesn’t crash. Even this is a stretch. Some are fine with failing code as long as it recovers gracefully before the user notices.

REST is an acronym for Representational State Transfer, an architectural style that has become extremely popular over the past few years. A RESTful API is one that it is built in accordance with the principles and guidelines of REST. RESTful APIs usually return plain text, JSON, or XML as a response.

Working at a research facility affiliated with a U.S. government hospital, this pilot fish becomes acquainted with ICD-9 codes for the statistical classification of diseases.

Closed-door proceedings may be just what the country needs.

During our travels to towns around the U.S., Jim Fallows and I have come across several artist-in-residence programs, for example…

Four theories to explain the phenomenon

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Dictators tend to share the same ugly manner because all seek the same effect—not charm but intimidation, Adam Gopnik writes.

Fiction by Camille Bordas: “I thought Audrey was faking it. How could you make it to twenty-six and not notice that you were color-blind?”

“The Ambassadors,” “The Crying Book,” “The Story of a Goat,” and “Exquisite Mariposa.”

The author Camille Bordas discusses “Only Orange,” her story from the December 23, 2019, issue of The New Yorker.

Alexandra Schwartz reviews “Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven,” Guirgis’s rough-cut gem of a new play, which is rich with revelation and barbed empathy.

The New Yorker’s 2019 Christmas Poem, by Ian Frazier: “Another lost one in the books, / Still fiddling while the planet cooks.”

Tyler Foggatt on the ballet dancer, who is making her movie début in Tom Hooper’s version of “Cats.”

Letters respond to Jennifer Gonnerman’s report on parole preparation, James Wood’s piece on Margaret Thatcher, and Brian Barth’s story about Roger McNamee.

Sarah Larson writes that, by “leaning into Christmas”—and claiming to avoid politics—the greeting-card company has come to dominate screens across America.

Jia Tolentino on the musical “Cats” and how Andrew Lloyd Webber turned a strange book by T. S. Eliot into a baffling cultural phenomenon, including a history-making Broadway show and new computer-generated movie.

Adam Entous on how the efforts of Yuriy Lutsenko and Rudy Giuliani to smear Joe Biden led to a Presidential crisis.

Poetry by Christian Wiman: “Three kinds of hair in the brush one love / has left on the kitchen counter.”

New cartoons from the magazine.