Новости за 28.01.2019

I can’t be the only person who’s parted with hundreds of dollars over the years because I forgot to cancel a service at the end of a free trial (hello, Skillshare) or let subscriptions drag on in the hopes I’d get around to using the product.

I’ve been a pretty good sleeper for most of my life — like the kind of sleeper who, when uninterrupted, will peacefully slumber until 2 p.m. no matter what time she goes to bed — but something changed after I moved to New York City a few years ago. I can still sleep a full day away no problem, but actually falling…

Once, when my son was about 4 or 5 years old, I was telling him how proud I was of him for something, and how lucky I was to be his mom.

Today marks the kickoff of tax season, and between the ongoing government shutdown and implementation of the 2017 tax law, it promises to be an interesting one (well...as interesting as tax season can get).

With tax season officially underway, you might be daydreaming about what you’re going to do with your refund: Pay off some debt, stash some away for a rainy day, plan a vacation—most Americans could use a bit more cash for any number of occasions.

I love limoncello, but it is—without a doubt—a capital-L liqueur. There’s nothing wrong with the candy-like sipper, but it’s not exactly refreshing. Oddly enough, the key to fresh-from-the-garden citrus-flavored booze can be found not in the lemon, but in a mostly fleshless, uncanny-valley-dwelling citron.

One of the biggest questions this tax season is whether to take the standard deduction, a flat reduction in your adjusted gross income, or to itemize, or use applicable tax deductions to lower your AGI. Obviously, you’ll likely want to choose whichever lowers your AGI the most, so you pay less in taxes.

You don’t need to be a virtuoso to succeed in a choir. You need a willingness to practice and learn, and “the basic ability to hear and emulate,” says Mira Taferner, artistic director of the a cappella chorus Sirens of Gotham. “That, luckily, is a relatively universal skill.” Taferner, along with Sirens associate…

At first blush, Juan Ayala probably looks like your regular-degular Dominican dude from Brooklyn. But the security guard and radio personality went viral last December after filming, confronting, and then performing a citizen’s arrest on “Subway Susan,” real name Anna Lushchinskaya, a white woman caught assaulting and…

True story: The title of the 8,011,991th U.S. Patent is “Apparatus for Facilitating the Construction of a Snow Man/Woman,” which certainly seems to imply that there’s a right way to build a snowman, snowwoman, or snowperson.

When you’re laid up with sniffles and a sore throat, few things offer real relief. (Rest, fluids, and behind-the-counter Sudafed are most of those things.) But there are plenty of “natural” items on drugstore shelves that claim to help. Today we’re looking at one with a teensy bit of scientific evidence behind it:…

Your federal income taxes are going to look a little different this year, thanks to the 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act. Credits and deductions have changed, as has your 1040.

Hack Your City is off to Copenhagen, home of Hans Christian Andersen, the Tivoli Gardens, and Danish political drama Borgen. What pleasures are buried deep in the hygge heart of Denmark? We’d like your best advice for visiting and living in Copenhagen.

The Edge of Seventeen is a solid, engaging, entertaining teen movie in the mold of John Hughes, and you should definitely watch it if you haven’t seen it (Friday). Hailee Steinfeld is an interesting actor! If you have a teenage kid, you could watch it with them and then have a productive conversation! Or, you could…

We live in a world where we’re all constantly multitasking, which can make focusing on just one thing a challenge. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom think they’ve come up with a solution in the form of a game.