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Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Is the Place to Go for Inventive Pastries and Fresh Bread

Baua Electric

Next month, Nick Ozemba and Felicia Hung, the co-founders of the Brooklyn-based design studio In Common With , plan to open Quarters, a shop housed in a 19th-century TriBeCa loft. Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s northernmost neighborhood, has long been a destination for bakeries in New York City.

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Exploring Ghana, With Contemporary Art as a Guide

Baua Electric

Some days we had wraps at Vida e caffe , an African chain; others, we went to the Purple Café in Osu, a hip neighborhood to the east of our hotel. Mr. Amara also took us to Erico Carpentry Shop to see the abeduu adekai, or proverb boxes, fantastical handmade coffins that are designed to reflect the interests of the deceased.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

Just two countries—Chile and Australia—account for over two-thirds of global lithium reserves, and South Africa, Brazil, Ukraine, and Australia have almost all the manganese reserves. The presence of cobalt mines in the DRC, for example, reduced water quality and expanded armed conflicts, child labor, respiratory disease, and birth defects.