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Mayoral Candidates Sound Pretty Skeptical of Regulation-Skirting ‘Disruptors’MIT’s New Robot Cheetah Is a Better Cheetah Than Real Cheetahs Who Run the Universe? Half of NASA’s New Crop of Astronauts Are Women

PolitickerNY

Mayoral Candidates Sound Pretty Skeptical of Regulation-Skirting ‘Disruptors’State Legislature Moves to Ban Novelty Lighters Rubén Díaz Thinks Jeff Klein Is ‘Eating All the Candies’

GalleristNY

‘Martial Raysse: 1960–1974′ at Luxembourg & Dayan Where Do We Go From Here?: Critics Lament the State of Art, but Things Are Looking Up in New Books ‘Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney’ at the Morgan Library & Museum

Media

Michael Hastings Dies In Car Accident Michael Cooper Moves to The Times Culture Desk Facebook Is Almost a Decade Old and Still Doesn't Get the Advertising Game

Real Estate

Alms for the Upper Middle Class: Subsidized Apartments Aim at $200K Earners 10 Madison Square West: A Study In Classy Neutrals On the Market: NYU Helps Finance Academics' Summer Homes; Nobody Likes SeaPort City; BAM South to Move Forward

Culture

To Error Is Human: The Slapstick Shakespeare in the Park Is Irresistible Stare Thee Well: Eye-Gazing Parties Aren't Just for Pick-Up Artists Anymore Write Man in the Palais: Michael Azerrad's New Site Brings DIY Ethos and Peer Review to Music Criticism

Opinion

The Next Flood Waste Not Keep the City Safe

Commercial Observer

City OKs Demolition at Avenue A Site With 15,617-SF of Retail Space City and NYU-Poly Announce Dumbo ‘Clean Tech’ Incubator Jack Terzi of JTRE on Growing, Organically

By Foster Kamer 6/15/12 7:35pm

MATCHMAKING DATES

Soccer Mom Madam Anna Gristina and ‘The Millionaire Matchmaker’: Exploring the ‘Connection’

As we continue to mull over the game tape from yesterday’s Today segment in which Matt Lauer interviewed Anna “The Soccer Mom Madam” Gristina, we came across one interesting little discrepancy that might be worth noting. Read More

By Laura Kusisto 11/11/10 11:04pm

Elevator Close Buttons Don’t Actually Work, and Other Office Oddities

Is it just The Observer offices, or is everybody’s heater on the fritz?

Perhaps we know the answer now. Courtesy of Futility Closet, here are just a few of the true lies they tell you at work (and elsewhere):

1) Close buttons on elevators are a cruel joke.

2) Put away the wrench: Read More

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