Smith: Home in a ‘blue zone’ just one factor in living long, healthy life | Food and Cooking

Jenna Smith Have you ever heard of blue zones? Identified in 2000 by Dan Buettner, Gianni Pes and Michel Poulain, blue zones are regions of the earth that have a higher percentage of people living well into their 90’s and 100’s. In fact, the authors note that people living in these areas tend to have lower rates of age-related chronic …

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Does Tesla’s Centralized Computer Architecture Require Fewer Chips?

Tesla has navigated the global automotive chip shortage better than most. It also pioneered using a unified computer architecture. How are those things related? What are the broader lessons here? Originally posted on EVANNEX.By Charles Morris Of all the innovations Tesla has brought to the auto industry, not the least significant is the unified computer architecture used in its vehicles. This has …

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Artist Uses Thick Paint to Create Cityscapes, Bayou Scenes | Louisiana News

By EMILY ENFINGER, The Courier HOUMA, La. (AP) — Using paint and a palette knife, Houma artist Stacey Fabre sculpts New Orleans and bayou vistas on canvas for viewers to savor and mull. Fabre holds an art degree from Nicholls State University and creates her paintings at her home studio in Houma. Fabre grew up on the West Bank and …

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8 Top Bathroom Trends of 2022

Jane Beiles Your bathroom is meant to be a retreat, regardless of its size. For instance, you can lean into the charm of a small bathroom by outfitting it with bold wallpaper, or you can fill a spacious bathroom layout with a calming white color palette paired with wood accents, like a teak stool, and a fluffy bathmat for spa-like …

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One in Four Underestimate This Home Improvement Cost

Facing stiff competition from homebuyers eager to get into their first house, more homeowners are taking an interest in do-it-yourself projects to fix or upgrade their home instead of trying to find something new.  But home improvement projects take an input of time, money, and skills—things that not all buyers have handy before starting a home improvement project, no matter …

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From windows to jackets to furniture, solar power is being totally rev

In January 2021, five craftswomen from Mozambique and three designers from The Netherlands came together in Linga Linga–a tiny peninsula in Mozambique–for a three-week design residency. It resulted in two prototypes: a lampshade that lights up in the dark, and a small handbag that charges a phone. The workshop was a collaboration between several studios from Mozambique and The Netherlands, including …

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The Work in My Building Is Endless and Invasive. Can I Withhold Rent?

Q: We live in a penthouse apartment with a wraparound roof terrace in a large high-rise in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Two weeks ago, a maintenance crew arrived unannounced to erect an enormous gantry on the terrace in order to access windows below that need repairs. We were told the work would take a few days, but they’re nowhere near finished. Since …

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Cultivating calm: how gardening helps me find peace | Gardening advice

It was the runner beans that did it. My neighbour, who is in her 90s, dropped round an envelope filled with a small handful of dried beans, which looked as if they’d been dipped in pink and black paint. A few months later, I was eating the best runner beans I’ve ever tasted, and they kept coming, for weeks and …

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