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The Best Organic Mattresses—All Certified, All Actually Tested
Organic bedding brand Coyuchi recently launched its own organic mattress, combining cotton, wool, and Dunlop latex atop individually wrapped coils. While Coyuchi’s linen sheets are excellent, I was a little nervous to try the company’s first mattress effort. Bedding is not a mattress, after all, and expertise does not always transfer across endeavors. In this read more
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The Marshall Heston 120 Soundbar Is Big and Beautiful, but Does It Rock?
Under the surface are 11 individually powered speakers, including two 5-inch woofers, two midrange drivers, two tweeters, and five “full-range” drivers. The collection includes both side-firing and up-firing drivers to bounce sound off your walls and ceiling for surround sound and 3D audio formats like Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. Around back, you’ll find solid connectivity, read more
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I Made My Kids Build Robots and Read Books to Test the Best Subscription Boxes for Kids
My kids’ appetite for stickers is endless. I find them constantly, on the mirrors in our house, on their school planners and water bottles, and occasionally stuck to the back of my chair or in the car. Stickers are also an accessible way of supporting independent artists. Maybe you can’t buy a painting or a read more
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How Genes Have Harnessed Physics to Grow Living Things
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sip a glass of wine, and you will notice liquid continuously weeping down the wetted side of the glass. In 1855, James Thomson, brother of Lord Kelvin, explained in the Philosophical Magazine that these wine “tears” or “legs” result from the difference in surface tension read more
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Use Google Gemini and ChatGPT to Organize Your Life With Scheduled Actions
The developers of the big generative AI chatbots are continuing to push out new features at a rapid rate, as they bid to make sure their bot is the one you turn to whenever you need some assistance from artificial intelligence. One of the latest updates to Google Gemini gives you the ability to set read more
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I Ditched the Cloud and Upgraded My Smart Home
Until recently, my smart home setup was in chaos. After years of testing, buying, and upgrading to the latest smart home gadgets in an attempt to make my life easier, it became a bloated mess that was actually making it more complicated. My Alexa, Google Home, and Apple Home apps were awash with dead devices, read more
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Wealth = health? Not necessarily, study finds
Policymakers should prioritise on prevention, sustainability and equitable access over simply increasing health budgets Ali Emrouznejad Professor Ali Emrouznejad, co-author of the study and Professor and Chair in Business Analytics at the University of Surrey, said: “Money isn’t everything when it comes to national health. It’s how effectively countries use their resources that matters. Nations read more
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These Are the Best TVs I’ve Seen This Year
Honorable Mentions There are so many good TVs available, we can’t add them all to our top list. Here are some great options that either missed the cut or got knocked off our top list by their replacements. Hisense U8QG: The U8QG is a great buy at its lowest price (around $1,000 for a 65-inch read more
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Shopping for a PC Gamer Doesn’t Have to Be So Hard. Try One of These Gifts
Shopping for a PC gamer is a perilous endeavor. What might look like a great sale on a GPU or gaming keyboard can turn out to be a bad deal because of some arcane spec that only the most die-hard forum-dwellers understand. If you’re shopping for the gamer in your life who lives that nerd read more
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I Tested 30+ Lip Balms and These Are the Top 5 I Swear By
Compare Top 5 Lip Balms Honorable Mentions Photograph: Boutayna Chokrane Eos 24H Moisture Super Balm for $6: I’ve been a fan of Eos’s egg-shaped balms since middle school. The 24H Moisture Super Balm feels like the grown-up version. There are some solid ingredients like shea butter, avocado oil, and castor seed oil. It’s also free read more
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Study explores potential of AI in transforming medical education
Serving as a digital co-tutor, AI enhances the learning experience through personalised feedback and realistic clinical simulations, helping to shape the next generation of healthcare professionals Jasmine Ong Dr Jasmine Ong from Duke-NUS AI + Medical Sciences Initiative and Principal Clinical Pharmacist at Singapore General Hospital, is a joint first author of the paper. She read more
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Lot Watch: The 16(ish) Top Works Hitting the Block at the November Marquee Sales
nnnnnnn ntPainted on Christmas Day in 1981, just after his 21st birthday,u00a0Crowns (Peso Neto)</em> was produced as Basquiat was vaulted from downtown prodigy to art-world phenomenon. This was the year Basquiat moved from the street into the studio, as well as the year critics and collectors began to grasp the range of his ambition. In read more
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‘They Want to Kill Art’: The French Art World Is Up In Arms Over a Proposal to Impose New Taxes on Art
In an attempt to increase revenue, two French parliamentarians are proposing that the government put in place a new tax regime on art in its 2026 budget. The French art world has risen up to oppose it, including issuing a lengthy statement with 27 signers, including leading fair company Art Basel, which just held the read more
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Sotheby’s CEO Says Supply Is ‘Catching Up With Demand’ as Fall Auctions Target $1.4 Billion
Sotheby’s CEO Charles Stewart said the art market has entered a new phase this fall, with supply finally “catching up with the demand” after months of strong bidder activity. The comment, made recently to CNBC, comes as New York’s marquee auction houses prepare for sales expected to totalmore than $1.4 billion, a jump of roughly50 read more
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University of Leicester Updates Its Trans-Inclusive Museum Guidelines, Despite Legal Threats
The University of Leicester in England made updates to its guidance on trans-inclusivity for museums and galleries last month. The university made the change, despite receiving litigation threats from the campaign group Freedom in the Arts (FITA). The 44-page document in questionwas “regularly reviewed and kept up to date”, the university told Arts Professional, following read more
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Lewis Chamberlain: From the Pocket of A Ghost – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“If I have to change my work halfway through, that causes huge issues. I like to know exactly what I’m doing and I like to plan ahead.” For “Woman Falling from an Airplane,” Chamberlain built the scene inside a dark cardboard box. That’s frequently how he works and he will shine bright lights on different read more
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Auction Houses Tapping into Jewelry Boom, Brooklyn Public Library Launches Art-Lending Program, Paris Photo Returns: Morning Links for November 14, 2025
The Headlines STAY CALM AND KARAT ON. As auction houses increasingly lean on the luxury market to offset sluggish art sales, Christie’s incoming global head of jewellery, Max Fawcett, is optimistic. The house kicks off its London Jewels sale on Friday, and he predicted it will be “one of the best London sales we’ve had read more
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Cousin of Suspected Robber in Louvre Museum Heist Speaks Out
A cousin of one of the suspected robbers in the Louvre heist recently spoke out in an interview with ABC News. A man identified as Mehdy, who claims to be the cousin of one of the suspected Louvre robbers, told ABC News‘ James Longman in an exclusive new interview for the television special “Impact x read more
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Artnet and Artsy Owner Andrew Wolff Forecasts the Future of Art Market Data and Decision-Making
After acquiring Artnet and taking it private and procuring a controlling stake in Artsy, Beowolff Capital CEO Andrew Wolff has set his sights on the digital future of the art market and the culture that surrounds it. On the occasion of his inclusion in the Observer’s “Art Power Index,” Wolff talked to the publication in read more
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Drag Wrestling Show Apologizes for ICE-Themed Skit at Brooklyn Art Center
Choke Hole, a drag wrestling show, apologized on Friday for a controversial ICE-themed portion of a performance staged at Pioneer Works, a Brooklyn art center. “We created a traumatic environment for many of our audience members and are deeply sorry for this,” Choke Hole wrote in a statement posted to Instagram. “Our attempt to engage read more
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