Новости за 12.10.2022

COVID vaccine boosters were updated this fall: Pfizer for ages 12 and up, Moderna for ages 18 and up. Now, younger kids can join in. The FDA announced today that both companies’ boosters have been authorized for ages 5 and up. The CDC also issued an updated recommendation stating that children in this age group should…

The world is so full of dangers we can’t outrun—tornados, bears, bullets—that you might be asking, “Why did I buy these expensive running shoes anyway?” But don’t lose hope: Running away isn’t the answer in most dangerous situations, but there are a few things we can successfully flee on foot.

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You know by now that the White House announced a sweeping plan to forgive the student loan debt of millions of Americans—today, a U.S. district judge could decide to temporarily block Biden’s student loan forgiveness program from taking effect. In the face of these legal challenges, the administration prepares to…

Now that you know the best time to carve your pumpkins so they won’t rot before Halloween, it’s time to move on to the next essential chapter in jack-o-lantern maintenance: How to keep them from becoming squirrel carnage and ruining the carefully curated Pinterest vibe on your front porch.

There are several ways you…

As we head into a winter with soaring inflation and rising energy costs, an electric blanket can be a solid investment. They’ll keep you warm and they’re cheap to use—it costs about 15 to 30 cents to keep an electric blanket on for 10 hours. If you live in a drafty old home or your utility bills are becoming a source…

Garage doors are generally built to last, and most of them will keep functioning for up to 30 years. But once they start to wear out, an old or broken garage door can cause a range of issues, including security problems. Once you’ve decided to replace yours, here’s what you can expect so that your invoice doesn’t give…

Recently I received two security alerts from Microsoft warning me someone had attempted to log into my account. The emails offered me links to review the activity and reset my password, as well as a link to learn about ways to make my account more secure. I’ll be honest, the emails seemed...off to me, and I almost…

Microwaves are convenient. Too convenient, perhaps. So convenient that some of us are suspicious of them. When these common appliances were new on the kitchen scene, there were objections to the supposedly unnatural way they heat food—remember that urban legend about the girl who boiled her brain while trying to dry…

If you’ve been in a job for a while without moving to the next level—despite your boss’s many promises of an eventual promotion—you may start to feel as though you are actually being strung along. Maybe your boss simply wants to drag more work out of you with the promise of a (non-existent) reward; or maybe they aren’t…

It only took Apple a decade or so, but you can finally pin tabs in Safari on your iPhone and iPad. The feature was worth the wait: When you close all tabs, it won’t clear the pinned tabs. By effect, you can turn your frequently visited websites into static web apps, without adding them to the home screen.

Halloween is synonymous with sugar, and overloading cookies with chocolate, gummy worms, and sugar eyeballs is par for the course. But after your fifth dozen-batch of cookies laden with orange buttercream, it’s reasonable to want to give the butter and sprinkles a rest. Well hold onto your broomsticks, because we’ve…

Freezing is, as we all know, a great way to cut down on food waste. Storing food in the freezer pauses the clock, so to speak, for at least a few months, which is better than the few days or weeks we usually get from storing fresh foods in the fridge. But water is tricky. It’s the only (non-metallic) liquid that gets…

Football season is well underway, and it just so happens to coincide with Halloween, so some adorably morbid, shareable snacks are in order. Save your ordinary pigs in blankets for later and make some Halloween mummy piglets instead—complete with slime.

If you want to take a cross-country road trip filled with scary places for Halloween, read on. The ten locations here are spread across our whole, terrifying country from California to New Jersey and are haunted by forces like institutional cruelty, ecological disaster, and, of course, ghosts. Also: clowns.

When you’re overcoming the cold or flu, you can get trapped in a hellish cycle of needing sleep to recover, but losing sleep due to lingering symptoms. Even after your cough has disappeared during the day, it often creeps back at night—making you (and everyone else in your household) miserable. Here’s what to know…

Winter is coming. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to take a great fall hike and take in the crisp air and beautiful autumn foliage—especially when you can get a free bonus out of it.

Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Super Saturday, Amazon Prime Day: The retail industry keeps making up unofficial holiday deal days to give us more excuses to spend our money ever earlier and more often. Now it seems we might have a new trend started by Amazon’s “Prime Early Access Sale,” in which deals start well before…

When I was a scrappy youth growing up in New Jersey, it always surprised me when friends would chuckle at my descriptions of having egg-centric meals for dinner. Apparently, “eggs were for breakfast.” But to me, they were one of the best dinner options, and there was no way anyone would to taunt me out of eating my…

Lately, my TikTok algorithm has served me a series of videos featuring awesome games from indie developers I otherwise wouldn’t have heard of. These titles aren’t even finished yet: Some have release dates, others have demos, while still others live only in the developer’s databases. Wherever these devs are in the…