Don't Bogart My Blog: Sunday Best: Looking for an escape from the Mueller report?

Sunday, April 21, 2019

Sunday Best: Looking for an escape from the Mueller report?

Visit a garden.

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Sunday, April 21, 2019

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Welcome to a break from reading hundreds of pages of the Mueller report. If you're still wrapping your head around why conspiracy is a criminal charge and collusion isn't, whether or not you should trust Attorney General William Barr or what's underneath those redactions, you can continue to dive into it all. For everyone else, enjoy this meditation from Oliver Sacks on why we need gardens. — Alexandra March

When Nature Is More Powerful Than Medication

The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden. Charlie Rubin for The New York Times

By OLIVER SACKS

In a posthumous essay, Oliver Sacks reflects on the healing power of gardens and describes "how nature exerts its calming and organizing effects on our brains."

Five Lies Our Culture Tells

Damon Winter/The New York Times

By DAVID BROOKS

Have you reached a career goal only to find that nothing has changed, and in fact, now you're hungry for more? You're not alone.

We Turned Public Cameras Into a Tracking System for Less Than $100

By SAHIL CHINOY

"If you're an adult in America, there's more than a 50 percent chance that you're already in a law enforcement facial recognition database."

The Future of Jack the Ripper

The last crime of Jack the Ripper, as depicted in a 1891 newspaper. Today, some are trying to reverse more than a century of treating his victims as anonymous footnotes. Guyot, via Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis — Getty Images

By ALICIA P.Q. WITTMEYER

You probably know more about the infamous serial killer than about the women he murdered, but in a post-#MeToo era, it might be time to shine a light on the women of Whitechapel.

The Upside to Cultural Appropriation

A fashion show in Lagos, Nigeria, last year. In the past decade, integrating traditional clothing into high fashion has become a source of pride in Nigeria. Pius Utomi Ekpei/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

By CONNIE WANG

Sticking a bindi on your forehead or braiding your hair into cornrows could be insulting, but when done correctly — and with nuance — donning another culture's attire could be used as a powerful message.

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