Meet the 2 Australian chefs who walked away from top restaurants to serve up premium meals in nursing homes
Harry Shen (pictured) and David Martin are on a mission to change nursing home food. David Martin can still recall the conversation that changed his career path. He was 25 and had spent the past decade working in the restaurant and fine dining scene. The hours were brutal — up to 16 hours a day…
I didn’t want a big family. Realizing my kids will rely on each other when I’m gone made me have 3.
Nina Goodwin had a third child in her 40s so that her oldest would have the support of her siblings in the future. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nina Goodwin. It has been edited for length and clarity. I never initially planned to have a baby in my 40s. In fact,…
Ryan Reynolds says he doesn’t want to be an ‘absentee’ dad by working on ‘Deadpool’ franchise
Ryan Reynolds at the world premiere of “Deadpool vs Wolverine.” Ryan Reynolds is feeling the dad guilt. On today’s episode of Variety’s “Actors on Actors” with Andrew Garfield, the actor opened up about balancing work and parenting. When Garfield asked Reynolds what the future of “Deadpool” looks like, Reynolds said he didn’t know. “My feeling…
We compared satellite images of Russia’s naval base in Syria before and after Assad’s fall. The warships are missing.
On December 9, they’re gone again. Russia’s warships have been missing from its base in Syria in the days after rebel forces ousted the country’s longtime dictator, Bashar Assad, satellite imagery obtained by B-17 shows. In imagery captured by Planet Labs PBC earlier this month, warships can be seen docked at the Russian naval facility…
Russia’s access to key military bases in Syria hangs in the balance, threatening its role in the region
President Vladimir Putin’s strategic objectives in Syria are under threat. The fall of Bashar Assad has thrown Russia’s military presence in Syria into question. It also poses a threat to Russia’s ability to project power throughout the Middle East and beyond. On Sunday, Syrian rebels, led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, overthrew Syria’s…
Why investors need to watch Japan as a key source of market risk in 2025
The US stock market’s stability could hinge on developments in Japan’s bond market in 2025, BCA Research said in a recent research report. The firm said Japan is the main driver of global liquidity, meaning the biggest risk to US tech valuations does not come from a rise in US real bond yields, but from…
Icelandair CEO reveals why Airbus’ A321LR is the perfect 757 replacement — and why the airline isn’t ditching Boeing
Icelandair will launch its first A321LR on December 10 as it phases out the Boeing 757. Icelandair has received its first-ever Airbus aircraft, breaking from its all-Boeing fleet for the first time in its nearly 90-year history. The new A321neoLR planes, which can travel up to nine hours nonstop, were delivered in Reykjavik on December…
I’m a bisexual woman engaged to a man. I’m worried I missed the opportunity to explore my queerness fully.
The author (left) is a bisexual woman engaged to a man. When my boyfriend proposed, my younger sister was surprised; she was convinced that I hated men. This joke started in my teenage years because I was a naive but outspoken feminist, which caused some stir in my traditional Protestant family. My beliefs never really…
Google has unveiled a new quantum computer chip that cracks a ’30-year challenge in the field’
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the new chip had cracked “a 30-year challenge in the field.” Google unveiled a new chip that it says reduces errors and vastly outperforms standard benchmarks in quantum computing. The company said the new chip, called Willow, can perform a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes. The same task…
