EditorialChristine Checinska, the first curator of African and African diaspora fashion at the Victoria & Albert, the largest applied and decorative arts museum in the world, in London, Sept. 26, 2020. (Lauren Fleishman/The New York Times)
EditorialOn a wet fall day, a western scrub jay makes a small jump while taking walnuts from the roof of a shed in an orchard near Elkton in western Oregon. The bird was using it's powerful beak to break open the nuts and eat the tender meat inside.