When the sociologist Diane Vaughan came up with the term “the normalization of deviance,” she was referring to NASA administrators’ disregard of the flaw that caused the Challenger space shuttle to explode, in 1986.
With pho, Spam, and Hoppin' John, pandemic baking joins a tradition. These days, pho is everywhere. The steaming bowl of rice noodles in broth is a mainstay on Vietnamese restaurant menus worldwide — comfort food served at corner shops, food trucks, and fancy fusion restaurants.
Justin Zhu, chief executive officer of digital marketing startup Iterable Inc., was walking down Broadway in San Francisco on April 26 when he was summoned to a surprise conference call and abruptly fired.
To be a working mother during a global pandemic is to be constantly torn between your kids and your clients. At times in the past year, Amy Conway-Hatcher, a lawyer at a big firm in Washington, D.C.
What Did I Do? It would be silly (and physically dangerous) to do intense workouts seven days a week, so I planned out a variety of high- and low-impact forms of exercise to cycle through.
It was the reply-all no one wanted, and it came on a Friday in October just after lunch, when the students at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry were in clinical rotations with patients or had checked out for the weekend.
And should colonists on Mars be allowed to eat each other?
Deep in southwest Arkansas is a state park that charges visitors $10 to search for gems that can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Asian American women played a critical part in America’s war effort during World War II. Coming from diverse backgrounds—including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Filipino—they served in important roles ranging from pilots and translators to factory workers and guerrilla fighters.
What do you get the woman who has everything? Queen Elizabeth II certainly doesn’t need any more dolphins—or swans.
With the caye split into two and corals smashed into rubble, the underwater world at Laughing Bird Caye National Park off the coast of Belize looked nothing like the vibrant and colourful place that had thrived with life before Hurricane Iris swept across it in 2001.
As we get older, our bodies benefit from different types of exercise. Here’s a guide for all ages.
On platforms like Substack and Patreon, subscriptions can be emotional purchases. But others, like Amazon Prime, feel more like utilities. The first service Everdeen Mason recalls subscribing to is Netflix, sometime in the early 2010s.
Ms. Sale is the host of the podcast “Death, Sex & Money” and the author of the forthcoming book, “Let’s Talk About Hard Things,” from which this essay is adapted. We’ve forgotten how to talk to people.
Embrace your inner teen and memorize some of her excellent quippage to use at your earliest convenience.
In podcasting, the title “producer” is a catchall. In many cases, this person has a hand in every facet of a podcast’s creation, from pitch to publication to promotion.
On April 15, Gargi Shindé, a 43-year-old nonprofit executive, logged onto Zoom at 5 a.m. From her home in Charlotte, North Carolina, she watched her relatives huddle around a bright-yellow body bag at a crematorium in Pune, India.
A report that a fish can pass the “mirror test” for self-awareness reignites debates about how to define and measure that elusive quality.
A few pantry staples are all you need for this creamy, comforting soup.
For years, three old friends from California had been making an annual pilgrimage to fish Alaska’s wild and pristine waterways. But in 2018, only two came home.