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Gilt Groupe launched an online culinary magazine to public beta Wednesday — a brand new venture for the invite-only sales company. Gilt has recently added new sales categories, including travel and home decor , but online content represents a radical departure. Gilt Taste mimics both the content and aesthetics of a leading food magazine — which is hardly a coincidence, given that former Gourmet editor in chief Ruth Reichl is serving as editorial advisor to the operation. It includes exhaustively tested recipes, beautiful photography and articles about the sourcing, politics and creation of food. But the resemblance to a magazine ends there. For one thing, there are no ads. The content on the site is built around a catalog of products, from rare kinds of meat and seafood to specialized produce and equipment, which Gilt plans to sell to an affluent readership. Those readers will have access to an ongoing selection of foods, as well as flash sales of limited-quantity products. … [Read more...] about Gilt Groupe Launches Online Culinary Magazine With No Ads

With more than 500 sperm banks in the United States and tens of thousands of donors, it was bound to happen.  As reported Friday in the Journal of Pediatrics, a sperm donor from Michigan passed on a rare and potentially deadly genetic disorder to five children.The disorder, called severe congenital neutropenia, affects only one in five million newborns.  Those with the disorder lack a certain type of white blood cell, and this leaves them vulnerable to a host of infections and also leukemia.  Fortunately medication, albeit at $200 a day, can keep white blood cell counts high.Doctors thought it was more than a coincidence when five kids born to four couples in the Detroit area were discovered with congenital neutropenia.  They traced it back to one sperm bank and one man.For now this seems to be an honest mistake.  The donor, known but unnamed in the report, could have been an asymptomatic carrier of the disease.  (The only problem is that his whereabouts … [Read more...] about The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Sperm

NEW DELHI: As Tim Cook becomes more comfortable on center stage as Apple 's CEO, the public is starting to learn more about how past events shaped the intensely private man. Cook, who told George Washington University's graduating class over the weekend to fight injustice, drew on his experience growing up in 1970s Alabama of governor George Wallace, where he saw firsthand segregation and the trampling of human rights. "Your challenge is to find work that pays the rent, that puts food on the table and lets you do what is right and good and just," Cook, 54, told the crowd of 25,000 assembled on Sunday. "Find your North Star, let it guide you in life and work and in your life’s work." "I had to figure out what was right and true," Cook said. "It was a search, it was a process, it drew on the moral sense that I learned from my parents, and in church and in my own heart and led me on my own journey of discovery. I found books in the public library that they probably didn’t know … [Read more...] about 6 things to know about Apple’s private CEO Tim Cook

As an art and design director for glossy titles like Complex and Wired , Tim Leong had to craft magazine covers that caught people's eye while simultaneously conveying a wealth of information. For inspiration, he often drew on comic books, whose bold colors and story panels had captivated him since childhood. In 2005 he started the website Comic Foundry as a resource for comic-industry lovers, eventually spinning it up into its own quarterly magazine. For his first book, Super Graphic , due out this August from Chronicle Books, Leong has combined the two forms again, crafting a joyous smorgasbord of comic book data that mashes up super hero stats with graphic design chic. The Verge chatted with Leong about his favorite titles and where he found all the granular details on Marvel's finest. When did you get interested in comic books? I’ve been a comic fan since I was a kid. It started with Superman and evolved over time. They have always been a big part of my life. I … [Read more...] about Comic book heroes get the info-porn treatment from designer Tim Leong

Everything isn't coming up roses for Chris Harrison. The longtime host of ABC's Bachelor franchise on Saturday said he'll step aside from hosting The Bachelor "for a period of time" as backlash continues over his comments about photos showing a current contestant attending an antebellum-plantation-themed party. The controversial pictures evoke a painful period in American history before the Civil War ended slavery and have sparked serious, soul-searching discussion among Bachelor fans and former contestants about race, representation and accountability. A Change.org petition calling for the removal of Harrison as host of The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and spinoff shows has gotten more than 39,000 signatures as of Saturday evening. And Rachel Lindsay, the first Black Bachelorette star, says she's done with the franchise. "I have spent the last few days listening to the pain my words have caused, and I am deeply remorseful," Harrison said in a public apology, the second this … [Read more...] about Bachelor host Chris Harrison steps aside for now: The backlash explained