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Ria Misra

Los Angeles

Travel and Outdoors Editor at Wirecutter

Travel and Outdoors Editor at The New York Times

Travel & Outdoors Editor, NYTimes Wirecutter. Previously: APM podcast host, PBS NewsHour, io9, Gizmodo. Mostly on Insta: https://t.co/NkPh6IlIcE

Articles

  • Feb 10, 2025 | nytimes.com | Ria Misra

    Any cabin air filter can pull out at least some pollutants from the air inside your car. But the gold standard is a HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filter, which is so effective that it can capture the vast majority of allergens, dust, mold spores, and even viruses that are circulating in the air.

  • Apr 18, 2023 | wrctr.co | Ria Misra

    A telescope can conjure images of stunning depth and detail from the night sky. Still, some of my most vivid stargazing memories are of nights that I’ve left the telescope in its case to instead see only what I could with nothing more than my eyes. On these nights, I might catch a glimpse of a spray of meteors as they streak across the sky, pick out a distant planet amid clumps of stars, or maybe just identify a few familiar constellations, all by simply looking up.

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Ria Misra
Ria Misra @misra
17 Jan 24

forgot how much of better call saul is just an extended cinnabon commercial, but I'm not mad at it

Ria Misra
Ria Misra @misra
7 Jan 24

someone asked me if my stanley cup was a limited-edition she hadn't seen yet and I told her, no, it's just very, very old my buying hack is to keep stuff for so long enough that people start assuming it's some kind of collectible

Ria Misra
Ria Misra @misra
6 Nov 23

changing the time of the sun set to just as I'm getting out of work is late stage capitalism