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‘Stranger Things 2’: Finished Watching? Let’s Talk

Watching is The New York Times’s TV and film recommendation newsletter and website. In the first episode of the new season of “Stranger Things,” we saw a mysterious, inflamed storm bearing down on Hawkins. By the end of the nine-episode run its identity had been revealed: Puberty. That strangest thing …

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‘So Long, Bobby’: New Exhibit Looks Back at Robert Kennedy’s Funeral Train

Photo Paul Fusco’s photographs from the train carrying the body of Robert F. Kennedy from New York City to Washington, D.C., where the former attorney general was interred in 1968. Credit Paul Fusco/Magnum Photos, via Danziger Gallery Museums often organize exhibitions celebrating the anniversary of the birth or death of …

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US moves to revoke claim that soy protein protects the heart

Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images A Monsanto soybean production facility in Manlius, Illinois. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed a rule revoking the right of companies to say soy protein protects the heart, while potentially allowing a more circumspect health claim. The agency, which to …

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Dance and Cultural Conventions, Ripe for Upending

The movement is occasionally representational — at one point the dancers mime playing sports — but more often it escapes such easy readings. In one striking passage, the four recline on the ground and merge into one amorphous being, crawling over one another, caught up in sticky entanglements. Continue reading …

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Quit bad habits with these 11 top tips

In physics, “momentum” refers to the quantity of motion that an object has, which depends on two variables: mass (how much is moving) and velocity (how fast it’s going). The formula is: Momentum (p) = mass (m) * velocity (v) This basic formula helped me maintain discipline as my income …

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In the Time of Trump, a Horror-Movie Maker Rules Hollywood

Mr. Blum, a 48-year-old Hollywood producer, takes this stand even though he thinks that goose bumps about Donald J. Trump have buoyed Blumhouse, his hit factory that has made “Get Out,” “Sinister,” “Insidious,” “The Purge,” “Paranormal Activity,” “Split,” “The Gift” and “The Visit.” Blumhouse also produced the Oscar-winning “Whiplash” and …

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Amazon could be responsible for about half of 2017 US e-commerce sales

Amazon held 38 percent market share, or $149 billion in sales, in 2016, and it remains the biggest e-commerce company. It is followed distantly by eBay, Apple and Walmart. Note that this data doesn’t include sales from private companies like Stitch Fix, the personal styling online retailer that filed to …

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Labor market divided with big ‘pool of struggling workers’

Despite a historic level of low unemployment, Goldman Sachs believes the labor market is divided, with a “pool of struggling workers” on the fringe. In a research note by chief economist Jan Hatzius, Goldman notes that while short-term unemployment has improved to historic lows, a higher rate of long-term unemployment …

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At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration

Starting in the early 1940s, Monk became a major architect of the style known as bebop — and, immediately, an iconoclast within it. He helped devise its language of thick harmonies, zipping melodies and steamed-up rhythm. But Monk maintained a rough piano style and wrote tunes to reflect it; his …

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Apple fires iPhone X engineer after daughter’s hands-on video goes viral

Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images People try out the new iPhone X during a media event at Apple’s new headquarters in Cupertino, California on September 12, 2017. Apple has reportedly dismissed an engineer after his daughter’s iPhone X hands-on video went viral on YouTube. Brooke Amelia Peterson published …

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