Новости за 04.05.2022

This time next year, the United States government will require U.S. travelers to use REAL ID compliant identification to board domestic flights and enter certain federal facilities. In layman’s terms, this means you’ll no longer be able to board a plane using your standard-issue driver’s license.

If you’re trying to get views on social media, it’s hard to do it by telling people things they already know are true. Instead, you’ve got to surprise them: crunches are bad now, raw meat is good for you, and sunscreen—plain old uncontroversial sunscreen—is now supposedly causing cancer.

Rarely do I go to bed without something playing on my iPhone, usually a YouTube video. The problem is, I need to make sure the video is long enough for me to fall asleep to, but not so long it wakes up me down the line. Plus, I need to make sure autoplay is disabled, otherwise YouTube will be running through my…

When assessing a potential long-term partner, many factors must be considered. Their values, emotional management, political leanings—and so much more. One facet that sometimes gets glossed over in new relationships is the subject of money. While you don’t want to kill the vibe by inquiring how much student debt they…

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Even if your kids eat meat fairly regularly, you may be on a mission to get more plant-based snacks and meals into the regular rotation. At the very least, they may bring home a non-meat-eating friend for a playdate one of these days, and it’s nice to be prepared to hand over something filling and delicious for them…

You’ve taken the leap and scheduled a first appointment with a therapist. Maybe it’s your first-ever session with anyone, or your last session was years ago, or you’re nervous about switching to a new therapist. Whatever your exact circumstances, you have a calendar appointment to physically (or virtually) sit on a…

Odds are at some point in your life, you’re going to experience a five-ish year period where you’re getting invited to a bachelor or bachelorette party seemingly every few months. It’s going to be a Groundhog Day-esque scenario where every morning you wake up at your local airport waiting at the gate to fly to…

Insects, spiders, and other small, many-legged creatures—which I will refer to from here on as “bugs,” and will accept no corrections on that point—belong outdoors. Mostly.

Some bugs are a disaster to find inside, because that means you likely have an infestation. Some sting, bite, or cause damage. But others are…

As with so much that’s great and terrible about modern pop culture, Star Wars started it all. A clever pun with ties to Margaret Thatcher (read on) gradually evolved into the theme for a made-up holiday now celebrated with at least as much passion as many “real” ones—like Labor Day, it’s really the sales that get…

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Have you ever looked at the tag on a plant at your local garden center and been perplexed that it says something like “Zones 5-9”? This number refers to the “hardiness zones” defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that act as a guide to which plants will survive best in which regions of the country. While there…

Every time a major social justice issue is in the news, the infographics come. You’ll see the same bright, flashy, eye-catching boxes of text shared to numerous friends’ Instagram Stories. Your friends are signaling their interest in a topic and making it clear where they stand—but is that really helpful? There is…

Being the parent of a young child is hard enough, even before factoring in the additional challenges of living through a global pandemic. And so far this year, that has included a shortage of baby formula.

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