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Apple’s New CEO John Ternus Faces Test Leading Former Rivals and Senior Peers
John Ternus (left) and Tim Cook at Apple Park in Cupertino, Calif. Apple After years of speculation and quiet succession planning, Apple announced yesterday (April 20) that Tim Cook will step down as CEO in September and be replaced by John Ternus, Apple’s current head of hardware engineering. Cook will transition into the role of…
Read Moremiart’s Three-Tier Experiment Reflects a Changing Milan
A reconfigured fair and improving market conditions point to Milan’s growing cultural confidence. Federico Gherardi In the run-up to the chaos that is Salone del Mobile and Milan’s design week—as attested by the many construction sites throughout the city—miart opened with its own offering, vying for a place in the Italian art scene. The fair,…
Read MoreCharles Chemin Has Been Training to Lead Watermill His Whole Life
Charles Chemin succeeds the legendary Robert Wilson. Photo: Tudor Cucu Last month, the Watermill Center in Water Mill, New York, announced that Charles Chemin would serve as its new artistic director. The announcement follows the death of Watermill’s legendary founder Robert Wilson last summer, and it was difficult to picture what the institution would look…
Read MoreConnie Ballmer Gives Record $80M to NPR as Public Media Faces Cuts
Connie and Steve Ballmer have doled out billions in philanthropic donations. Photo by Eric Feferberg/AFP via Getty Images Philanthropist Connie Ballmer, the wife of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, is making a major bet on the future of public media as federal funding cuts squeeze broadcasters nationwide. She has donated $80 million to National Public…
Read MoreAuthor Tolani Akinola’s 10 Best Books About Dysfunctional Families
It was actually by accident that I wrote a novel about family. When I sat down to type out the first few pages of my novel, Leave Your Mess at Home, which published on April 14, I’d been intending to write a kind of anti-romance novel, something like a great unrequited love story that would…
Read MoreAncient Humans Mastered Fire. Now, Burning Fossil Fuels and Blazing Landscapes Threaten to ‘Undo the World’
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Intensifying wildfires across the continent are spewing air pollution, putting human health at risk, particularly Americans living with chronic illnesses Source link
Read MoreCritic Megan O’Grady On Art and Feeling Alive
After making space for herself in art, O’Grady wants to make space for the rest of us. Courtesy Megan O’Grady “What drew me to criticism, before I knew to call it criticism, was its assertion that ideas were central to life, which hadn’t, in my experience, always been a given,” Megan O’Grady writes in her…
Read MoreThe Hell Creek Formation Is North America's Legendary Boneyard. See the Top Five Discoveries Found in the Iconic Fossil Bed
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From preserved plants to T. rex, the material found in these Late Cretaceous rocks has resulted in countless breakthroughs for paleontologists Source link
Read MoreJames Taylor-Foster On Curatorial Fluidity and Para Site’s Next Chapter
James Taylor-Foster was recently appointed executive director of Para Site © 2026 by Ray Leung. CC BY-ND 4.0 Last month, Hong Kong’s most historic independent arts organization, Para Site, named its new executive director: James Taylor-Foster, who will lead its next chapter as the non-profit enters its 30th anniversary. He belongs to a generation of…
Read MoreWhat Lies Beyond Artemis 2? These Other Missions Are Setting Their Sights on the Moon This Year—and on a Future With Humans in Space
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As the historic lunar flyby comes to a close, space companies and nations around the world are also shooting for the moon. Upcoming landings aim to change the landscape of space exploration Source link
Read MoreHear From a Wildlife Photographer's Dramatic Glimpse Into the Dwindling World of the Cascade Red Fox
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Gretchen Kay Stuart has chronicled the work of a small team of biologists who are trying to keep a little known and breathtakingly beautiful endangered species from disappearing Source link
Read MoreEarth's Smells Are Disappearing Because of Climate Change, and It's a Vast Cultural Loss
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A triple threat of pollution, extinction and warming temperatures is altering the way the planet smells. Scientists are only beginning to understand the stakes for humans Source link
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