@nytimes writer mike.ives@nytimes.com
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"Unless you’re there, unless you capture it, no one would believe — could not even possibly imagine — what you’re witnessing," one photographer told me nytimes.com/2022/04/11/scien…
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With so much going wrong in the world, should we now also worry about a nine-tailed fox demoness that may be loose in a forest in Japan? nytimes.com/2022/03/18/world…
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We explain how “Lunana” was made in a remote part of Bhutan, and later nominated for an Oscar. The director Ang Lee says the film is “very simple but very touching.” @nytimesworld @TheAcademy nytimes.com/2022/02/12/world…
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I wrote about a Galápagos volcano that produced a lava trail so long and bright it was visible from space. The eruption "was very, very difficult to miss," a videographer told me from Ecuador. @nytimesworld @NYTScience nytimes.com/2022/02/09/scien…
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Eastern Massachusetts will likely be the “bull's-eye” of the snowstorm sweeping up the East Coast this morning, the National Weather Service told me. @nytimes will have live coverage. nytimes.com/live/2022/01/29/…
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Mike Ives retweeted
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We lost our great editor, Carlos Tejada, suddenly yesterday. We’re all devastated — this life thing is so fragile, so unpredictable.
But this is how we like to remember him: this laughter tells you how he embraced life and all of us who were lucky to work with him on daily basis
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Zara Rutherford, 19, is flying around the world in a tiny plane. “She does have a bit of experience, but what she’s doing is really, really, really brave,” a pilot said.
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I wrote about a mission to find a sunken B-52 at the bottom of the South China Sea, with help from robots
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Reports of a sapphire discovery in Sri Lanka were packed with gleaming details. Some proved too good to be true, we discovered.
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“I feel kind of sorry for them about their fate," says the mascot expert @mondomascots nytimes.com/2021/07/27/world…
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.@hikarimaehida and I explain why the reaction to Tokyo's Olympic mascots has been rather meh. “They seem to be functional. They seem to be doing a good job,” an expert on Japanese mascots told me. “But there doesn’t seem to be a lot of passion for them.”
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It's really, really hot in a lot of places, so I took a closer look at how temperature records are formally vetted. Hundreds from the U.S. alone "would not survive a re-analysis,” @DrJeffMasters told me nytimes.com/2021/07/22/clima…
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Ever wondered where your weed came from ... in an archaeobotanical sense? I wrote about a new study that suggests all existing strains of cannabis come from an “ancestral gene pool” in East Asia.
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We're covering a blast in northern Pakistan today that officials say killed at least nine Chinese nationals. At least some were engineers working at a hydroelectric project. Story will be updated. nytimes.com/2021/07/14/world…
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.@HikariHidaka and I wrote about a digital cat on a Tokyo billboard that has sparked joy on social media. It behaves a bit like an actual cat, in that it does whatever it pleases. nytimes.com/2021/07/08/world…
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Police officials in Karachi, Pakistan, say that a brigade of officers who patrol on inline skates has been a success. Critics call it a publicity stunt. nyti.ms/3qh3uQi
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The Maldives was short on nurses during a Covid surge so it sent volunteers to care for patients who couldn't receive visitors. "We were their family, and I saw them that way, too," one volunteer told @MaahilMohamed nytimes.com/2021/06/18/world… @nytimesworld
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The judge granted a 30-day stay of the ruling at @AGRobBonta's request. Here's our @nytimes story
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"The themes, if you ask me, speak to everyone," says an English teacher from Turkey who uses the sitcom in her classes @nytimes nytimes.com/2021/05/29/arts/…
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