Новости за 20.07.2023

Let’s take it back to that introductory psychology course you took in college for a moment: Remember Maslow’s hierarchy of needs? It’s that pyramid-shaped chart with physiological needs at the bottom and self-actualization at the top. It’s great for understanding what you need to be truly content in life, but it’s…

You might assume that the lender you used to obtain your home’s mortgage will be the lender you’ll pay off until the bitter end—until the day you get a letter from them informing you that your mortgage has been sold to another entity. It might comes as a shock, given the amount of time and effort you put into…

International roaming fees are a common-yet-unexpected cost of travel. You could buy a new SIM card for each country you visit, or you could make a one-time investment in an eSIM like aloSIM, which is a traveler’s eSIM that you can load with data packages from over 120 different countries. At the moment, you can get the aloSIM…

In the world of exercise, variety abounds. You can lift light weights, or heavy weights, or no weights at all. You can run fast, or run slow, or strap on a pair of roller skates. If you don’t exercise at all right now, it doesn’t matter much where you start. But that doesn’t mean that all of these options are…

After years of loathing oatmeal, I’ve grown to enjoy it. For over a year I’ve tasked myself with finding numerous ways to improve the cereal grain, like adding sausage and pickles to it, cooking it in your morning tea, or baking it into PB&J bars, and it actually worked. My oat experience has indeed improved, and I…

There’s little better than ripe fresh fruit eaten out of hand, but when you have too much to eat before it goes bad, do the next best thing: freeze your fruit. It’s easy and economical—a no-brainer way to extend the life of anything sweet and fresh that’s sitting on your counter, threatening to get squishy or grow…

The next time a warning light comes on—or if you don’t understand what a particular button does on your dashboard—you don’t need bother with the car’s manual: You can use your iPhone instead. iOS 17's Visual Look Up upgrades include the ability to read car symbols and warning lights, so you can quickly diagnose what’s…

Myopia, also known as nearsightedness, is on the rise for today’s kids. One risk factor theorized to be partially to blame is holding a screen too close to the face—an iPhone or iPad screen, for example.

Applying for a passport? It’ll take you longer than usual: According to The Points Guy, a routine passport service can take around 10 to 13 weeks (seven to nine weeks if you’re willing to pay more for expedited service) and an additional two weeks for processing and mailing. And that’s not including how long it might…

Learning a language isn’t easy and no app is going to make you fluent overnight, but if you want to be methodical about your studies and get a variety of learning style options, Rosetta Stone has a lifetime subscription on sale for $159.97 right now (reg. $299) with promo code VACATION15. Sale ends July 23.

Fried eggs are straightforward eggs. A little fat, a hot pan, an egg—that’s all you really need to make one. But they’re also more riffable than a lot of people realize.

By manipulating the temperature, switching up your cooking fat, or frying them atop piles of cheese or herbs, you can fry up an almost endless…

Over the past couple of years, Apple has made positive strides when it comes to internet privacy. It automatically blocks cross-website cookies now, making it harder for ad networks to track you across different sites. But cookies are not the only way networks, or websites, can keep tabs on you: They can do it with…

Everyone knows the ESRB video game ratings by now—y’know, E for Everyone, T for Teen, M for Mature. These ratings tell parents and players what a game’s intended audience is and warn of any potentially problematic content therein. Official ESRB ratings are also required to sell a game in stores and digital…

Yesterday I asked my wife what she wanted for her birthday. She told me she’d like a cordless Dremel. Later, I was served an advertisement for—you guessed it—a cordless Dremel.

Shaved ice is technically frozen water that has been shaved (or crushed) into a fluffy pile, then flavored with syrups and such. But what if instead of shaving (boring, inherently flavorless) frozen water, you tried shaving (exciting, colorful, pleasingly tart) frozen fruit? That’s exactly what Frankie Gaw of Little…

While the Perseids are usually the highlight of summer meteor showers, they aren’t the only thing to stay up late or wake up early for this year. As Space.com lays out, there are a handful of lesser-known but still-spectacular showers to view between now and mid-August.

Weekends and waffles belong together and nothing should ever come between them, especially not the damn waffle maker. When greased up correctly, removing waffles from the hot iron is no problem. Lubricate the waffle iron unevenly, or not at all (we’ve all been there), and the batter can become unapologetically stuck…

You spent so much time getting the garden and yard ready for summer, and in eight weeks, you’re going to do it all in reverse to get ready for fall and winter. Since July and August are mostly filled with walking around the garden to check on progress and pull the occasional weed, I try to find ways to make fall…

Everybody has a favorite stage of banana ripeness. Do you prefer them still slightly tinged green? Uniformly yellow? Lightly freckled? Soft and beginning to show brown stripes along the bottom? Whatever it is, act fast, because they’ll be a different color tomorrow.

Rejoice, for we are heading into high tomato season. Hopefully, your tomato plants are now producing actual tomatoes; with any luck, you’re seeing the first blushes of color. If your vines look healthy—full of blossoms but lacking actual tomatoes—it may be time to break out a vibrator.

They Cloned Tyrone is a sci-fi comedy movie starring Teyonah Parris, Jaime Foxx, and John Boyega that centers around a series of eerie events in a Black neighborhood that brings together an oddball trio of characters—a drug dealer, a pimp, and a sex worker—who discover a government conspiracy.

“Okay, Mom, my room is clean!” You know before you even see the finished product that your child’s room is most definitely not clean. And, sure enough, when you poke your head in the door, you see the same thing you always see after they’ve supposedly cleaned their room: A big clear spot in the center of the floor and…

Set in 1870s San Francisco during the Chinatown Tong Wars, Warrior is a martial arts crime drama that centers around Ah Sahm, a martial arts phenom from China who immigrates to the U.S. in search of his lost sister. After joining a Chinatown gang called Hop Wei, he eventually learns that his sister’s circumstances are…

This Nix Mini 2 Color Sensor can scan and read the color of just about any surface—great for matching paint colors—and it’s on sale for $59.97 (reg. $99) right now until July 23. With the Nix Mini 2, you can scan a surface and get matches to brand-name paint colors or sRGB, HEX, CMYK, or LAB colors.

Nobody likes to feel sluggish and sweaty, so when the sun is set to “broil,” we understand that you’d rather take your workout to an air-conditioned gym. But if you tough it out in the heat, not only will the workouts get easier, you’ll also have better endurance once the mercury drops again.