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Mark Mobius Quits Retirement to Set Up New Firm
Turns out Mark Mobius isn’t one for retirement. Less than four months after leaving Franklin Templeton Investments, the 81-year-old has set up a new asset management firm to invest in emerging and frontier markets. Mobius Capital Partners LLP has yet to line up outside investors and wants to raise about $1 billion within two to […]
Doctor: Trump Dictated Letter Attesting To His ‘Extraordinary’ Health
In December 2015, Donald Trump’s personal physician released a letter describing his patient’s health in language that sounded more like it was written by the patient himself than the doctor — and it turns out that might be exactly what happened. “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever […]
Telemedicine is getting trendy, but doctors may not be keeping up
For years, doctors have been told to look at the patient — not the computer — when providing medical care. What we haven’t been told is what to do when there’s only a computer. Telemedicine is perhaps the most rapidly evolving area in health care. About 15 million Americans receive some form of remote medical […]
Philippines Orders Deportation Of Australian Activist Nun
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the expulsion of a 71-year-old Australian nun, giving her 30 days to leave the country after she reportedly joined protest rallies against his government. Sister Patricia Fox, who has lived in the Philippines for nearly three decades, has had her missionary visa revoked after apparently speaking out against Duterte […]
James Cameron Says Superhero Movies Are Played Out, Compares Avatar Sequels to The Godfather
James Cameron, hard at work on his series of sequels to 2009’s sci-fi blockbuster Avatar, says the era of superhero movies should be coming to an end. With Avengers: Infinity War opening in theaters later this week, heralding a paradigm shift for the studio that launched the modern superhero franchise, Cameron hopes Hollywood’s major studios […]
How Robert De Niro Helped Bradley Cooper Cope with the Death of His Father
Robert De Niro has been an anchor for Bradley Cooper in more ways than one. At the Tribeca Film Festival Saturday night, the actors sat down for a talk about their careers, with Cooper sharing a handful of precious stories about the ways De Niro impacted his career and personal life. The pair first worked […]
More older Americans are smoking marijuana
U.S. marijuana consumption is more prevalent today than during the conservative 1980s. Surges in drug use are often attributed to “kids these days,” but new research shows that the change has been driven not by stereotypical longhair youngsters but by the gray-haired and balding set. Read more at the Washington Post
The British women who secretly served in the Cold War
For more than 20 years, the green plains of Holderness, East Yorkshire, were the secret location of underground bunker RAF Holmpton, where radars watched the skies amid the threat of the Cold War. During the uncertain years of the Cold War, when nations prepared for the prospect of a devastating nuclear war, Britain created a […]
Gmail set for ‘entire rewrite’ in biggest overhaul for five years
Google is implementing the biggest overhaul of its popular Gmail webmail service in five years, bringing a new look, advanced AI-powered features and improved privacy. Two years in the making, the redesign is intended to help Google better compete with Microsoft’s Outlook on the business side and modernise consumer email by bringing features from its […]
Queen Elizabeth II Celebrates 92
Queen Elizabeth II marked her 92nd birthday on Saturday. The celebrations kicked off at Buckingham Palace during the changing of the guard where the Band of the Irish Guards played “Happy Birthday.” The customary gun salutes by the British Army took place midday — “a 41 gun salute in Hyde Park, a 21 gun salute […]
OK, robots have passed the Ikea test. Now let them clean our toilets
Listen, I’ve probably been a bit hard on this whole robot uprising thing. The idea of losing my job to something as coldly logical as an algorithm spooked me for a bit, plus I wasn’t exactly jazzed by the prospect of being rendered obsolete as a species by a platoon of super-intelligent militarised killing machines. […]
‘You were the reason’: Barbara and George Bush’s love story remembered at her funeral
Some 1,500 guests filled the pews of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston on Saturday, including former presidents and first ladies, and family and friends who gathered to celebrate Barbara Bush’s 92 extraordinary years of life. Seated front and center, confined to a wheelchair but sporting socks embroidered with books to celebrate his wife’s dedication to literacy, was Barbara’s husband […]
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Florence Knoll
First Lady of Modern Interior Design
By Don West
It is difficult to encapsulate in one phrase all the beauty and distinction that attend the name of Florence Knoll. She forged a place for herself among the greatest designers of the 20th century, and was noted for her association with so many who occupy that rank. Mies van der Rohe. Eero Saarinen. Charles Eames. Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. Hans Knoll, whose own name she added to hers by marriage at mid-century.
(She will be known forever to this writer for the desk at which he sits today, and for a chance meeting in a New York elevator when she turned to him with a smile and said: “I like that tie.”) read more