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Four Reasons You Should Embrace Being an Introvert

Four Reasons You Should Embrace Being an Introvert

TONIC — In an extroverted society that feeds off outspoken, attention-seeking personalities who argue about pretty much everything, introverts have a tendency to get lost in the noise. The extroversion-introversion dichotomy seeks to explain differences in personality in a linear way: Traditional extroversion is typically characterized by outgoing, energetic behavior, while traditional introversion tends to learn more toward reserved, solitary behavior.
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Blood and Guts Aren't the Hardest Part of Cleaning a Crime Scene

Blood and Guts Aren't the Hardest Part of Cleaning a Crime Scene

TONIC — A parade of men in hazmat suits gather outside a quaint suburban home tangled in withered vines. The front door opens and the smell of death bleeds into the uncontaminated December air.
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What It's Like to Get Certified to Treat Opioid Overdoses

What It's Like to Get Certified to Treat Opioid Overdoses

TONIC — Every seven hours, a New Yorker dies from a drug overdose. The number of overdose deaths in New York City exceeds that from car accidents, suicides, and homicides combined.
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6 best juicers

6 best juicers

The Independent — Juicers are like cousins-there are lots of them and you're not quite sure who's who. Before investing in a juicer, it is crucial to distinguish between the two types of juicers on the market-centrifugal and masticating. Centrifugal juicers are the most popular (and cheapest) option, perfect for beginners.
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Celebrating the Year of the Dog

Celebrating the Year of the Dog

Our Town (New York City, NY) — Cymbals clashed, drums boomed, and dogs barked as dragons of green, red, and gold paraded up and down Madison Avenue on Saturday to celebrate Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year.
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Downward dog for expecting moms

Downward dog for expecting moms

Our Town (New York City, NY) — In a dimly lit room, six pregnant women folded themselves into a downward-facing dog pose. With hands and feet planted on the purple yoga mat, the women formed bridges with their bodies, hips rose upward and swollen bellies hung below.
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Chair yoga for seniors

Chair yoga for seniors

Our Town (New York City, NY) — The newest population of yogis on the Upper West Side? 70- and 80-year olds.
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Inside an urban salt cave

Inside an urban salt cave

Chelsea Clinton News — Entering the room is like putting on a pair of rose-tinted glasses. Hundreds of illuminated Himalayan salt blocks line the walls, as the pink granulated carpet of loose salt crunches beneath your bare feet. For thirty minutes, you breathe in the warm, briny air while the blush-colored surroundings lull you to sleep.
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Forks and fashion

Forks and fashion

Our Town (New York City, NY) — Using 382 forks, 59 spoons and two ladles, design student Filipa Mota designed the perfect, 1920's-inspired cocktail dress.
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Birdman of the West Village

Birdman of the West Village

Our Town Downtown — Taking a break from transforming a vacant storefront into a waxing and color room for the neighboring salon, the birdman of the West Village is absolutely covered in white paint, stray strokes smeared upon his neck, jeans, and Timberlands.
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Working With Dead People Has Its Own Special Kind of Job Stress

Working With Dead People Has Its Own Special Kind of Job Stress

Vice — Standing before a corpse, Laura Hardin, 29, began the embalming procedure as she had done hundreds of times over the past six years. One: Wash the body in disinfectant. Two: Create an incision in the artery. Three: Replace blood with chemicals. Four: Drain the organs.
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A séance at Houdini's home

A séance at Houdini's home

Our Town (New York City, NY) — On the ground floor of Harry Houdini's childhood home on the Upper East Side, magicians and magic fans gathered around a table crowded with the legendary escape artist's memorabilia.
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Restoring Ruppert Park

Restoring Ruppert Park

Our Town (New York City, NY) — Just three years ago, Ruppert Park was better known as the Upper East Side's "Rat Park," an uninviting one-acre park on Second Avenue between 90th and 91st Streets, plagued by hundreds of rat colonies.
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Fashion forward at the Met

Fashion forward at the Met

Our Town (New York City, NY) — What are those women painted on Grecian vases wearing? Who styled the hair of Imperial Rome's "it" girls? Who designed the gold ear spools of Pre-Columbian America? Professor Andrew Lear treats New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art like an awards show red carpet.
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Hooking up, for nearly 75 years

Hooking up, for nearly 75 years

Our Town (New York City, NY) — Viola Goodman can guess a woman's bra size with a quick glance.
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Exploring the unexpected

Exploring the unexpected

Our Town (New York City, NY) — In Mexico circa 1987, photographer Flor Garduño stumbled onto a mysterious scene. A man holds a bull by a rope. On that bull stands a small goat as if someone had purposely stacked the two creatures like toys. It was a scene she didn't compose.
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Airbnb's Next Big Thing

Airbnb's Next Big Thing

Marie Claire — Belinda Johnson's team helped launch Airbnb's new Experience platform, which allows hosts to lead activities in their home cities for a flat fee. Meet three women using the service to share a little local flavor with tourists.
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A boost for women in politics?

A boost for women in politics?

Our Town (New York City, NY) — Parents interested in participating in local government might soon receive free child care provided by the city under proposed legislation by Council Member Ben Kallos.
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Dishing it out at the Vendys

Dishing it out at the Vendys

Our Town (New York City, NY) — Two years ago, Godshelter Oluwalogbon was dishing out traditional Nigerian fare out of the back of his car. This weekend, the 41-year-old carted home the Vendy Cup, the top honor in the annual street food competition put on by the Street Vendor Project.
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Flaunting the curve

Flaunting the curve

Our Town (New York City, NY) — The popular plus-size label, Torrid, made headlines this week as the first plus-size women's fashion brand to present at NYFW: The Shows.
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Safety improvements planned for Park Row

Safety improvements planned for Park Row

Our Town (New York City, NY) — The more than 1,600 bicyclists who ride in and around lower Manhattan's Park Row can look forward to much-needed relief from extreme congestion along a half-mile stretch by spring.
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KFC Plans to Test Out Vegetarian Fried Chicken in the U.K.

KFC Plans to Test Out Vegetarian Fried Chicken in the U.K.

Fortune — The fried-chicken fast food chain hopes to launch the meat-free option in 2019.
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This Is How Hungry Becomes Hangry

This Is How Hungry Becomes Hangry

TONIC — Earlier this year, the Oxford English Dictionary finally added the word hangry, which many of us use to describe that oh-so-lovely belligerence that overcomes us when we desperately need some calories.
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