Новости за 18.05.2018

Happy weekend, and welcome back to 3-Ingredient Happy Hour, the weekly drink column featuring super simple yet delicious libations. This week we’re taking the already refreshing gin & tonic and making it even fresher, if you can imagine such a thing.

When we last rounded up our staff’s Weekly Upgrades, our editors were making DIY standing desks, managing our stress, and finding new ways to keep our apartments clean.

So... you’re six weeks into your new life in a new city.

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There’s an age-old myth that says full-grown adults can’t become fluent in a second language. And lately, the media has been pointing to a new study that seems to suggest as much, saying that the fluency age cutoff is around 18. But that’s just not true.

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Look, we’re all guilty of participating in an ill-advised meme or two, and it’s all fun and games until your identity gets stolen.

New Yorker cartoonist Jason Adam Katzenstein taught you how to draw what you see. Then he taught you how to draw faces. In the new video above, he shows how he turns all these principles into caricatures for his cartoons.

Sue Matthews’ world was shaken when daughter Taylor was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 11. For the next five years, the family of five would be caught in a whirlwind of treatment plans, surgeries, biopsy results and medical terms they couldn’t pronounce. Yet while so much was uncertain, Matthews discovered that…

Our president apparently does not know the difference between the sexually transmitted diseases HPV and HIV, but I’m not here to judge. As you probably remember from sex ed class, if you think you have a stupid question, you should ask it anyway because you’re probably not the only one.

Hello, and welcome back to Will It Casserole?, the column where I take your delicious concepts and re-imagine them as tasty casserole creations. This week we’re taking a very British thing—the “fry up” or “full English”—and putting an American spin on it by turning it into a casserole.

Whether it’s a former roommate, an ex-partner, a friend, or some random partygoer whose name you’ve forgotten, someone is going to leave stuff at your home at some point. But hold on there, pal, that property isn’t automatically yours now. Here’s what you should do with it, according to common U.S. law.

In the beginning, the laurel-or-yanny clip said laurel and nothing but laurel. Here is the original version of the clip, recorded by an opera singer working for Vocabulary.com. Chances are, you’ll hear it as laurel too. Let’s compare it to the viral clip and we’ll see exactly what changed, and why half of us hear the…

Do you know what you’re putting on your skin? If not, you can use this product search engine to decode what’s in your lotions, face serums and makeup.

OK look, this is news to me, and even though I got roasted by my editors for only just learning this, I bet it’s news to some of you too: You can leave a glass of water out for months, and so long as it was properly cleaned, it’s not going to make you sick.

Sometimes, it befalls us technologically savvy folk to help those who are less knowledgable about their gadgets and devices. In this week’s edition of Tech 911, we’re taking a look at a pretty common family situation: one daughter, two parents, two iPhones, one account, lots of confusion.

I love the concept of a coworking space. Even though I’ve worked from home for a number of years, I sometimes find myself missing things like human interaction, yummy snacks, plants, and unique or super-creative spaces that make it easier to get through the 9–5 day.