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Fine-Tooning Retirement with Emily Flake: John [Sponsor Content]
Watch as cartoonist Emily Flake captures a New York lawyer’s life-after-work plans in pen and ink.
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Fine-Tooning Retirement with Emily Flake: Robert & Charlotte [Sponsor Content]
Watch as cartoonist Emily Flake captures a New York couple's life-after-work plans in pen and ink.
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Fine-Tooning Retirement with Emily Flake: Erica [Sponsor Content]
Watch as cartoonist Emily Flake captures a New York chef’s life-after-work plans in pen and ink.
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Stories of the InterContinental Life, Episode 1: Fascination [SPONSORED]
Produced for The New Yorker by InterContinental Hotels & Resorts. To live the InterContinental life means to have a passion for travel and a fascination for discovering new places. Our first episode is about fascination’s allure. In each of the storylines, we discover something new: a hidden story from the past, a different way of experiencing the present, and an idea of how fascination is formed in the first place.
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The Battle for New York City’s Trash
A new law threatens the livelihoods of those who scavenge scrap metal on the street.
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Atul Gawande: Was Your Operation Necessary?
Atul Gawande is a staff writer for The New Yorker, a surgeon, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and the author of four best-selling books, including “Complications,” “Better,” and “Being Mortal.” In this lecture, he discusses America’s health-care system.
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Thank You for Vaping
In 1963, a patent was filed for a “smokeless non-tobacco cigarette,” but the invention did not take off. Fifty years later, in 2013, electronic cigarettes had suddenly mushroomed into a billion-dollar industry.
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The Holographer
In an unassuming storefront on Twenty-sixth Street, down the road from Bellevue Hospital, Jason Sapan’s Holographic Studios has stuck around for decades.
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The Diamond Cutter
As the diamond industry moves abroad for lower-cost labor, master diamond cutter Max Fuchs looks back.
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The Frame Maker
The frames that surround works of art are often overshadowed by the paintings within them. For Marcelo Bavaro, a fourth-generation frame maker in Brooklyn, the frames themselves are a kind of art.
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New Bread, Ancient Grains
Chad Robertson, of San Francisco’s Tartine Bakery, talks bread, natural fermentation, and ancient grains.
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Hamdi Ulukaya's Favorite Flavors
Hamdi Ulukayami, the founder of Chobani, talks about his earliest memories of eating and making yogurt.
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The Pumpkin Carvers
How do you make a profit from carving pumpkins when even the most elaborate designs are destined for the dumpster?
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Still Asking Betty Halbreich
Betty Halbreich is Bergdorf Goodman's first personal shopper, and one of its oldest employees.