Новости за 12.07.2018

The sun’s ultraviolet radiation is dangerous to our skin cells because it damages our DNA. That’s why sun exposure can cause cancer, and why sunscreen is so important (even apart from its power to prevent sunburns). There are sunscreens that claim they can help your skin repair that damage—and, it turns out, they…

macOS Mojave is in public beta now, and it has a lot of cool features that might not totally change the way you use your Mac, but will speed up parts of your workflow, help keep your files organized, and make you smile with customizable touches.

Hot coffee is not something I can even look at during the summer; it’s all iced coffee, sometimes even without cream because dairy gets more and more oppressive as the temperature climbs. If however, you wish to add a little pep to your icy morning drink while keeping it refreshing, you should grab a strip of lemon…

You know you need to pay your credit card bill on time, and that you should aim not to keep balance. But do you know what everything on your credit card statement actually means?

Apple dropped some pretty big news today: It’s no longer selling the 2015 MacBook Pro, which means you can’t purchase a MacBook Pro—from Apple—whose keyboard doesn’t suck isn’t questionable.

If you’ve used birth control pills for any length of time, you may have been told to take it at the exact same time every day to ensure effectiveness. Maintaining a consistent pill schedule at home is as easy as setting an alarm on your phone—but what happens when you travel across several time zones?

Freshman year of college, my friend started a book club. We picked Ulysses. We met up once, and I’ve still never read Ulysses. Book clubs are hard! They’re so hard that blogs list things to talk about when no one in the book club read the book. (“Read reviews of the book out loud, and talk about those.”) If your book…

Uber has announced a new update that will allow a user to add Venmo as a payment method when using Uber and Uber Eats. The feature will reportedly available in the upcoming weeks, though an official launch date hasn’t been given.

Perhaps you thought you were going to make it through the rest of the summer with out me talking about corn yet again, but you thought wrong, pal. In addition to steaming, grilling, and chomping on raw kernels, I am now medium-key obsessed with pickling fresh corn.

Open relationship, ethical non-monogamy, polyamory, monogamish: there are so many words for telling someone that when it comes right down to it, you’re dating someone else. Here’s how to do so in a way that is respectful of their time and energy.

This week, a woman named Sylvia Acosta experienced what she described as a “Handmaid’s Tale moment” when passing through customs with her 15-year-old daughter at Dallas–Fort Worth International Airport. Because she and her child don’t share the same surname, Acosta claims she was detained and questioned by a customs…

Mistakes happen. Missing (or skipping) a bill payment or two isn’t the end of the world, but it could have serious consequences—including fees, higher interest rates, a dark mark on your credit score, garnished wages or a visit from a debt collector—if you’re not quick to fix it.

You’re typing an email, you paste in some text from a Word doc, and suddenly half your email is in the same font as the doc. Or you paste a headline into a Google doc, and it shows up in giant 48pt text. This annoying paste behavior is the default in most Windows, MacOS, and web apps. In outgoing docs and emails, it…

In a perfect world, we’d all have a feature-packed, free PDF editor that can do everything you might need whenever you’re given an important document to fiddle with.

I was prescribed Cipro once. When I got the bottle of pills home, I took a minute to read the leaflet that the pharmacy stuffs in the bag—mostly just to be a diligent nerd, not because I expected any shocking news. But when I got to the part that said one side effect is tendon rupture(!!!), I put the leaflet down and…

Vaping is almost certainly less harmful to your health than smoking cigarettes, since it doesn’t contain bits of burned-up tobacco leaf (the cancer-causing “tar” in cigarettes). But if that fact leads smokers to start vaping, but then they don’t quit smoking, what good was the vaping?