If Romeo were around today, he would be heavily scarred on his back or chest. Juliet would wax poetic about these signs of his strength and bravery. Daredevil. Batman. Tarzan. “Outlander’s” Jamie. “Fifty Shades of Grey’s” Christian Grey. The romantic hero of our day is a man with physical scars. His scars don’t detract from […]

Or … a screened in amusement park for your cat What, cynics may ask, distinguishes a “catio” from a “screened-in porch”?They clearly haven’t seen the catwalks that wind around Dan Reeder’s Seattle house and yard like a super-sized Habitrail with, as he wrote on his blog, “everything a cat could want in that place, including a […]

Urbanist Richard Florida popularized the term “creative class,” describing the millions of workers in fields such as the arts, sciences and technology whose work largely involves coming up with new ideas and innovating on old ones. The creative class has, for better or worse, primarily been associated with big American cities along the coasts: out […]

The internet’s obsessed with new emoji: pitching them, petitioning for them, arguing about their exact designs and details. But regular users have rarely had a way to be part of the notoriously complicated emoji-proposal process – at least until now.Tuesday, the app maker EmojiXpress launched a website called EmojiRequest, which’ll serve as a sort of […]

Let us count the ways House numbers are an often-neglected detail of a house. They are the first impression people get of your home. They are crucial for first-time dinner guests, emergency vehicles or Uber drivers to be able to identify the right address. So go out to the street and look critically at your […]

Mario Oikonomides credits a massive heart attack when he was 38 with sparking his love of exercise, which he says helped keep him out of the hospital for decades after. While recovering, he did something that only a small percentage of patients do: He signed up for a medically supervised cardiac rehabilitation program, where he […]