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What goes into designing that popular teapot or water bottle? 2 top creators discuss the process
Ever wonder how some of the stuff we use every day came to be? I think about it sometimes when I’m at the stove with my favorite sauté pan, with its perfect trifecta of size, weight and performance. Or when I’m struggling with the badly designed zippers on my otherwise-swanky...
Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
NEW YORK (AP) — One by one, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pulled out their phones snap pictures of the rare blooming plant before leaning in to brave a whiff of its infamously putrid scent, which resembles that of rotting flesh. “It smells like feet, cheese and rotten...
The man pushed onto New York's subway tracks says he will ride again
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who survived being shoved onto subway tracks ahead of an oncoming train said that in spite of the physical and psychological trauma, he eventually plans to make his way back to the train. “This city is my home,” Joseph Lynskey told The New York Times in an...
Durant proud of what Nets were building, even though 'dysfunction' brought it quickly crashing down
NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Durant is proud of what he believed the Nets were building in Brooklyn before “dysfunction” brought it quickly crashing down. Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden played just 16 games together and their tenure became better known for the chaos off the...
