With COVID-19 making a resurgence in Tokyo, the Olympics are currently coming apart at the seams, including an announcement on Thursday from Japan’s Olympics Minister Tamayo Marukawa that the Games would proceed without fans. If watching the world’s…
Lees meerI’ve tested the global youth-culture internet and the results have come back positive: Everything is looking up this week. We’re even talking about colonizing Venus, which is cool...if not impossible. Read more...
Lees meerIf you’re like me, then you have consciously made the decision to avoid all people under the age of 25. However, sometimes you get stuck in a room with a tiny baby that just wants to cry and drool and who can sense that your biggest fear is them poo…
Lees meerI can’t be the only one who blinked hard at the calendar in July, wondering where the hell the first half of 2021 had gone. After spending the better part of 2020 wanting the whole year to vanish off the space-time continuum, it’s a little surreal t…
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Lees meerIncreasingly, companies include unlimited paid time off as part of their job offers, as it’s an enticement popular with millennials and Gen Z workers. But you’ll want to think twice about whether it’s really all that great—studies show that workers …
Lees meerWith the exception of salt, pepper is the most common and ubiquitous seasoning in American cooking. The berries themselves vary wildly in both color and flavor, but when and how you grind and cook them also has a big impact on their flavor. (Growi…
Lees meerI never look to the sky for advice, or thought that planetary alignment on my birthday—July 5, 1989—helps explain why I struggle with anxiety and like wrestling and playing the drums. I don’t think those things aren’t preordained by the cosmos, but …
Lees meerWith millions of homeowners behind on their mortgage payments, and a looming foreclosure moratorium that expires July 31, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has added some new protections to help borrowers keep their homes. However, sin…
Lees meerThere is something very alluring about the large, plastic-domed containers of croissants you see at the grocery store and Costco, but I rarely give in to their buttery siren song. It’s just too stressful! But last week, I saw a 12-pack on sale for a…
Lees meerMicrosoft recently released emergency patches to fix a major zero-day security flaw in Windows’ Print Spooler code dubbed “PrintNightmare,” but they didn’t fix the problem. Security researchers discovered the vulnerability is still present on severa…
Lees meerPaper coffee filters are exclusively sold in packs by the thousand for less than $2. This is a universal fact.Read more...
Lees meerTikTok is a creator’s paradise, and these days, more than just fashion influencers and aspiring comedians are clogging the platform. A new community has blossomed on the app, and it’s made up of users, many of them teens, plugging books—a pretty unl…
Lees meerIt’s hard to believe we’re already halfway through 2021, since it feels like we just crawled out of the smoking crater that was 2020. In terms of personal finance, the pandemic was worse than the 2008 financial crisis for most Americans, affecting e…
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Lees meerSocial media is a vital tool for promoting your work online, but almost every social media app shares a major flaw: You can only paste one “website” link to your profile. For most people, that’s not enough—most of us have multiple profiles, projects…
Lees meerThe process of interviewing for a job can feel like a job in itself, particularly when it is stretched out over weeks or months and requires you to devote your attention to fulfilling countless tasks you hope will prove your worth.Read more...
Lees meerIf you’ve gotten used to monitoring your “cardio fitness” score on your Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Health, or any other activity tracker or app, you may have noticed that the score has dropped recently—or perhaps not gone up as much as you would have exp…
Lees meerUnlike commercially produced, processed food and beverages, eggs can vary in appearance and composition quite a bit. They come out of a chicken, not a factory, which means these variations are to be expected, not only from chicken to chicken, but fr…
Lees meerWhen you first bring home a baby plant, you have all kinds of hopes and dreams for it. You can see its full, lush future potential—but in order to get there, it’s going to require a little training. The act of “training” plants—also known as husband…
Lees meerThe Biden administration has amended some rules, making it easier to get funeral costs reimbursed for people who have lost family members due to COVID-19. This means if your application was already rejected, you still have a chance to get up to $9,0…
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