Новости за 19.02.2019

Did you drop everything and change your day’s schedule yesterday when you realized it was National Drink Wine Day? No? But perhaps you (or somebody you know) shared a meme or two featuring a giant wine glass. Because you deserve it.

Bodies change a great deal over time, and sometimes those transformations are dramatic. When you see a friend who suddenly looks different, there’s a strong impulse to remark on it. Sometimes that kind of comment will be extremely welcome—even expected—and sometimes it will be unappreciated and downright hurtful.

So, you took our advice and filed your taxes this early year, only to discover that, lo and behold, you actually owe money to the government (tax refunds were eight percent lower than last for those who filed during the first week of tax season). If that tax bill is more than you can afford to pay at the moment you…

After declaring a national emergency on Friday in a desperate attempt to fund a U.S.-Mexico border, President Trump did what any president does after a national crisis: He golfed all weekend at his club in West Palm, Florida (where membership fees start at $250,000 a pop). And if this week’s news is any indication,…

If slumber seems unattainable right now, try watching this soothing video with some methods for falling asleep faster.

You don’t necessarily need to buy a new mattress to get a better night’s sleep: Sometimes, a mattress pad will do, and this popular one has a 50% coupon on Amazon today. I have this bamboo pad from ExceptionalSheets on my own Casper mattress, and it really does make an already-comfortable mattress feel even nicer.

I’ve found myself in a vicious cycle lately. Whenever I have free time to kill, I’ll typically rotate through the same, stale list of websites, sucking up whatever new content comes along to relieve me of my boredom. I’ll bounce between Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, and Gmail (and occasionally Slickdeals) in one…

The top copy editor at Random House has a book out about what you should and shouldn’t do in your writing, and people are already arguing about it. All writing advice is relative, because language is not physics, it’s something people made up. That doesn’t mean writing advice is useless, so if you like to write and…

Your snobby cocktail friend may fly into a tizzy (or worse, a lecture) at the utterance of “shaken, not stirred” but, though their feelings on shaken martinis are valid, shaking a cocktail can be good, actually.

As we have said before, one of the best ways to teach empathy to children is through fiction. I don’t remember any of my grade school lectures or lessons about Black history, but I remember reading Mildred D. Taylor’s “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry,” with 9-year-old Cassie Logan growing up during the Great Depression,…

Anyone who works from home knows it’s a special kind of hell. Despite the allure of soft pants and no commute, it can be isolating and dreary. When you’re left to your own devices—literally, just you and your devices —staring at a screen, trying to turn words or graphics or code into dollars, and you don’t know what…

The great king Solomon was asked to settle a dispute between two women, both of whom had recently given birth, one of whom had smothered her child in its sleep. Both claimed other had smothered her child, both claimed the living child was her own. “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to…

Anker, as you probably know by now, makes a lot of products. But I don’t think any of them are as ambitious as the Nebula Capsule, a surprisingly good portable projector shrunk down to the size of a soda can.

You already know that many of your financial decisions aren’t made rationally: Recency bias, sunk-cost fallacy and mental accounting all play major roles in how we spend, save and think about our money. A new report adds a new bias to be aware of when you’re picking investments.

Got a money question plaguing the ol’ noodle? You know, one you can’t ask an older relative about without getting a stern talking-to? We’ve got the answer: Gaby Dunn, author of Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together and host of the Bad With Money podcast, will be live with us at 1…