A spray-on coating to keep power lines standing through an ice storm may not be the obvious fix for winter outages ' but it's exactly the kind of innovation that happens when MIT students tackle a sustainability challenge. 'The big threat to the power line network is winter icing that causes huge amounts of downed lines every year,' says Trevor Bormann, a graduate student in MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) and member of MITten, the winning team in the 2025 MADMEC innovation contest. Fixing those outages is hugely carbon-intensive, requiring diesel-powered equipment, replacement materials, and added energy use. And as households switch to electric heat pumps, the stakes of a prolonged outage rise. To address the challenge, the team developed a specialized polymer coating that repels water and can be sprayed onto aluminum power lines. The coating contains nanofillers ' particles hundreds of times smaller than a human hair ' that give the surface a texture that makes water bead and drip off....

Working in restaurants is physically, mentally and emotionally taxing and often thankless work. So it was wonderful to see so many hardworking friends in the Philadelphia dining industry recognized at the Michelin Guide's 2025 Northeast Cities Ceremony in Philadelphia on Nov. 18, 2025. Three Philadelphia restaurants each received a star: Provenance, Friday Saturday Sunday and Her Place Supper Club. In addition, 10 other food destinations received a Bib Gourmand for providing 'exceptionally good food at moderate prices,' and 21 received Michelin-Recommended status. Pietramala was the sole winner of a green star for sustainability. As a classically trained chef, culinary educator and author of the textbook 'Culinary Improvisation,' which teaches culinary creativity, I've been following the Michelin developments in Philadelphia closely. I am also a contributor to The Infatuation Philly, whose mission is to bring you honest and trustworthy opinions about where to eat. I spend a good amount of time experiencing and reviewing restaurants....

All Her Fault contains two dramas. One'melodramatic, Hitchcockian at its best, Lifetime-hacky at its worst'follows all the most generic beats of the airport thriller, starting when Marissa (played by Succession's Sarah Snook) arrives to pick up her son, Milo, from a playdate at a house where, somehow, no children live and no one has ever heard of him. The other'sensitive, almost documentary-realist about the dynamics of modern parenting'deals with the fallout, as a community struggles to confront how such a nightmarish failure of safeguarding could have happened. The two modes of the show intersect only briefly, in the show's terrific opening scene, as Snook's eyes begin to dart with mounting panic that she's trying frantically to rationalize in the presence of a stranger. But for the rest of the series they diverge, leaving us stuck inside a mostly hokey story that has flashes of brilliance, or at least of sharp insight into the tensions and fault lines of working motherhood. I've rarely felt more frustrated with television than I have this year, watching hour after hour of humdrum wealth porn, self-indulgent maximalism, and turgid aimlessness. All Her Fault, initially, seemed to fall into the first category'it's based on a crime novel by the Irish writer Andrea Mara, it's set in an affluent suburb of Chicago (the series was filmed in Australia), and its trailer teases lies, dead bodies, and a minefield of familial conflict. So the first few episodes were a pleasant surprise: Without preamble, Milo is suddenly missing, which throws us headfirst into a charged environment of suspicion and terror. But, around the edges of the story, Megan Gallagher (who created the show and wrote five of its eight episodes) fleshes out other nuances. Marissa's husband, Peter (Jake Lacy), relies on his wife to answer basic questions about their son during a police interview; Jenny (Dakota Fanning), the mother of a boy in Milo's class, has to leave an important work meeting when her husband can't manage bedtime on his own. The second episode flashes back to the weeks after Marissa and Peter bring a newborn Milo home; Marissa frantically Googles sleep routines and swaddling techniques while Peter serenely assures her that he'll do anything she asks him to do to help. (The look she gives him in return is so murderous, it almost burned a hole in my screen.)...

Today's business environment is unpredictable, and the challenges leaders face are fast-changing and interconnected. In this world, executives must learn how to 'pivot with purpose': to constantly and courageously remain anchored in their values while adjusting to meet new realities. There are five principles to follow in order to do so. First, face reality. Leading through complexity begins with acknowledging uncomfortable truths. Second, stay true to your purpose and values instead of retreating, making reactive choices, or listening to the loudest voice in the room. Third, adapt your strategies and tactics to changing conditions by redirecting resources toward a more promising path without losing your company's core identity. Fourth, rely on your teammates for innovative ideas and creative solutions. Finally, go on offense and focus on winning with new business models....