Новости за 27.08.2019

Talking to a friend that’s struggling with their mental health is tricky. You might be concerned about saying the wrong thing or pestering them with too many phone calls and texts. On Reddit, u/burnie57 asked users how to help a friend struggling with depression—and while everyone is different and communication is…

Getting distracted at the grocery store is inevitable. There are temptations around every turn: brightly colored sale signs! Sample tables! New flavors of seltzer! You might think that keeping your nose in your phone—scrolling through podcast episodes, calling your mom—would prevent you from getting sucked in by the…

Disney Plus is set to officially launch in the US, Canada, and the Netherlands on November 12th; however, the company is currently allowing members of its D23 fan club, which anyone can join as a general member for free, to preorder the service at a pretty significant discount.

Good Morning America’s Lara Spencer created an uproar among the dance community recently when she laughed on air about six-year-old Prince George taking—and loving—ballet lessons. Spencer has since apologized, but the mocking nature of her words struck a nerve among professional male dancers who say the bullying they…

When the Trader Joe’s Multipurpose Umami Seasoning Blend was first released unto the world, I received many a text, DM, and email about it, because my brand is very strong. As a lover of the fifth taste, I was excited about this powder, particularly since TJ’s had discontinued their umami paste.

The time to nab a discounted plane ticket for Labor Day weekend has passed; however, there’s still time to get a great discount on a hotel room for the weekend.

A quick heads up for iOS 12 users: This week’s iOS update, version 12.4.1, includes an important fix for a security gaffe discovered in iOS 12.4. We highly recommend you perform the system update if you haven’t already—unless, of course, you’re trying to jailbreak your phone.

Remember Foursquare? I used to use it (and the company’s other apps) to keep detailed, digital recordings of everywhere I went, which was the cool thing to do back in 2010. And while I don’t use Foursquare’s Android or iOS apps anymore, I’ve given the company a lot of information about me. Thankfully, it’s easy to see…

The US Open is starting to wind down, with the last rounds of matches ending on Monday and the men’s and women’s quarterfinals being broadcast Tuesday and Wednesday, followed by the semifinals and then the men’s and women’s singles and doubles final the following weekend, September 7-8.

Over at the New York Times, a frustrated employee shared their story of a lazy, “do-nothing” colleague with the Ethicist. “She frequently takes lunch breaks, comes in later than her start time and is not actually working on her ‘work from home’ day,” they wrote. “... In addition, she is constantly complaining and…

A Massachusetts woman recently died of eastern equine encephalitis, and health authorities in the area are on the alert. But EEE is an extremely rare disease, and the main thing you need to know is that it’s always a good idea to protect yourself from mosquito bites.

How do you practice your music? Do you sit down and play a specific piece all the way through, over and over? Do you do the thing where you start at the beginning of a piece, play until you make a mistake, repeat that part until you play it perfectly, and move on—only to make that exact same mistake during your next…

Vegan foods that seek to replicate the taste and texture of The Real Thing are having a moment, and it’s looking like that moment may stretch out into a minute, or even an hour. (This is a good thing, I believe.) And though there are many ways to mimic the structural roles that eggs play in cooking and baking, Just…

It’s been six long years since Google first debuted its Chromecast streaming stick. While most of you have probably upgraded to something better by now—such as a more-powerful “puck” in the form of a third-generation Chromecast or Chromecast Ultra—if you haven’t, you now have yet another reason to make the switch: …

Sometimes, the best response to a group chat or email is a strong GIF—a small animation that can express your feelings much better than you can type them. While you can find plenty of GIFs for every occasion with a few taps of your phone’s keyboard in your favorite messaging apps, why use the same “DealWithIt.gif”…

Tucked in among the many joys of celebrating a happy couple’s marriage are the myriad faux pas just waiting to get you. One of them: writing a check that is basically unusable for the newlyweds who would really love to add a couple of excursions to their honeymoon plans. While it may feel special to write a check to…

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When it comes to raising empathetic children, the advice to parents typically has to do with talking to them about the feelings of others, encouraging them to imagine how another person feels, and praising them when they display empathetic behavior.

Who here knows when to use “who” and when to use “whom”? For whom am I writing this post? For those of us who like a good whom now and then and know it isn’t just a fancier version of who, that’s whom.

Radio show archives are hard to find; when they’re available at all, it’s often in awkward formats. (To get my hands on the radio sitcom Cabin Pressure, I had to buy one season as a music album and another as an audiobook.) You can find some shows on the Internet Archive, but listening to them is awkward. The website …

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IMDb launched IMDb TV earlier this year, a streaming service that allows you to watch some programming for free through IMDb’s website. Today the company announced that it’s bringing IMDb TV to its mobile app as well, giving you the ability to stream all that content on your mobile device.

Does your neighborhood have strange joke listings on Google Maps? Are you living next to a Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Fake Google Maps locations are surprisingly common, and these fictional locations and pop-cultural references can even come with highly detailed (false) information, such as…