NY Times: For Founders of Small Businesses, the Personal Story Matters - A business owner’s personal story can bolster trust in a brand, experts say. But what happens when they share hardships like homelessness, addiction or incarceration in company marketing? - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/business/small-business-owners-champion-pizza-rethink-ice-cream.html -

NY Times: Once an Evangelist for Airbnbs, She Now Crusades for Affordable Housing - Precious Price ditched her profitable business of renting home stays to tourists to combat the mounting housing crisis. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/business/airbnb-short-term-rental-discrimination-housing.html -

NY Times: How a Dollar General Employee Went Viral on TikTok - Mary Gundel loved managing a store in Tampa, Fla. But when she detailed its challenges on social media, the company — and fellow employees — took notice. - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/business/dollar-general-tiktok.html -

NY Times: An Optimist at the Helm of IBM - Arvind Krishna is trying to stay in touch with the company’s roots as he confronts today’s challenges. - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/arvind-krishna-ibm-corner-office.html -

NY Times: At the Sierra Club, a Focus on Race, Gender and the Environment, Too - A debate about John Muir and racism thrust Ramón Cruz into a new leadership role. - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/business/sierra-club-ramon-cruz-corner-office.html -

NY Times: With Layoffs, Retailers Aim to Be Safe Rather Than Sorry (Again) - Companies that ramped up hiring in areas like technology over the past few years are cutting back as customers slow their spending. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/business/retail-jobs-layoffs.html -

NY Times: It’s Never Too Late to Become a Nurse - During the pandemic, Joanna Patchett spent 18 harrowing months in the intensive care unit. She discovered that medicine isn’t just about science — it’s also about heart. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/health/nursing-school-program.html -

NY Times: Is Albariño the Next Great White Wine? It Depends. - For so long it’s been regarded as a simple, fruity wine to drink young and forget. But some producers in Rías Baixas are finding great potential. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/dining/drinks/rias-baixas-albarino-white-wine.html -

NY Times: Edinburgh Festival Review: ‘Food’ Is an Acquired Taste - At the Edinburgh Festival, Geoff Sobelle presents a dinner party as a theatrical spectacle, in which silliness is the end in itself. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/theater/food-edinburgh-festival.html -

NY Times: Exploring Maremma, a Quiet Corner of Italy - Whether on horseback, by bike or on foot, the least populated part of Tuscany offers a pastoral escape, where your days follow the cycles of the weather, animals and plants. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/travel/maremma-italy.html -

NY Times: Russia’s Luna-25 Mission Launches to the Moon - The Luna-25 mission, years in the making, will try to put a robotic lander near the moon’s south pole. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/science/russia-moon-launch.html -

NY Times: A Chimp Sanctuary With a New Urgency to Give Shelter - Emily Anthes, a science reporter, visited a chimpanzee sanctuary in Louisiana to observe how it prepares the animals for extreme weather. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/insider/a-chimp-sanctuary-with-a-new-urgency-to-give-shelter.html -

NY Times: How and When to Watch the Perseids Meteor Shower Peak - The event is formed from debris left by the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, and the summer weather could make it a very good show. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/science/perseids-meteor-shower.html -

NY Times: How Old Is That Polar Bear? The Answer Is in Its Blood. - So-called “epigenetic clocks” are helping wildlife biologists estimate the ages of animals far more easily than in the past. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/science/wildlife-aging-epigenetic-clocks.html -

NY Times: Is Social Justice for the Birds? Audubon Attempts an Answer. - A battle over the group namesake’s ties to slavery grew into a conflict over diversity, highlighting complications that have arisen in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/us/audubon-society-birding-racism.html -

NY Times: You Hear a Baby Crying, a Crocodile May Be Hearing Lunch - The semiaquatic reptiles seemed to be roused to action in a study when they heard recordings of crying human and ape infants. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/science/crocodiles-crying-babies.html -

NY Times: Under Hydrothermal Vents, Animal Life Is Discovered for First Time - For the first time, scientists observed tubeworms and other complex ocean creatures dwelling beneath hydrothermal vents. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/science/hydrothermal-vent-animals.html -

NY Times: The Loss of Space Command Headquarters Brings an Alabama City Down to Earth - Huntsville, a city with a proud history of aerospace innovation, was set to welcome Space Command, until a distant force beyond its control intervened: politics. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/politics/huntsville-space-command-colorado-springs.html -

NY Times: W. Jason Morgan, Who Developed Theory of Plate Tectonics, Dies at 87 - His framework offered a new way to think about continental drift and revolutionized the study of earthquakes, volcanoes and evolution. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/science/jason-morgan-dead.html -

NY Times: Shark Bites Woman at NYC’s Rockaway Beach, a First in Recent Years - Officials said there had been no reports of shark bites at Rockaway Beach “in recent memory” before Monday’s incident. The woman was in serious but stable condition. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/nyregion/rockaway-beach-closed-shark-attack.html -