Most Popular Editorials: How to Build a Better Resume in 4 Easy Steps

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How to Build a Better Resume in 4 Easy Steps Better resumes include lists of the many accomplishments people had and descriptions of their proudest moments. These lists should be specific. They should tell readers about the change or shift they made in results, a process improvement or innovation that saved a company X amount of dollars, the number of people that they helped get promoted or the percentage by which they exceeded their goals. Continued here

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Vast corporate profits are delaying an American recession To the ears of many, “pricing power” is something of a dirty term. For left-wingers it conjures up images of greedy corporations abusing their market dominance to charge more. For economists it raises the spectre of sticky inflation as companies ratchet up prices to cover higher costs. But from another perspective, pricing power is less of a problem: it enables firms to withstand the kind of inflationary pressures that they are now experiencing. In so doing, it serves as a shock absorber for the economy, forestalling the risk of a recession. Continued here

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The Great Attrition is making hiring harder. Are you searching the right talent pools? It’s the quitting trend that just won’t quit. People are switching jobs and industries, moving from traditional to nontraditional roles, retiring early, or starting their own businesses. They are taking a time-out to tend to their personal lives or embarking on sabbaticals. The Great Attrition has become the Great Renegotiation. Continued here

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The U.S. diet is deadly. Here are 7 ideas to get Americans eating healthier The U.S. food system makes junk food plentiful and cheap. Eating a diet based on whole foods like fresh fruit and vegetables can promote health - but can also strain a tight grocery budget. Food leaders are looking for ways to improve how Americans eat. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images hide caption Continued here

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Yes, You Can Reverse a Cavity—Here's How According to Lifehacker, you actually can. Tooth decay occurs when the bacteria in plaque produce acids that wear down the mineral-heavy enamel on your teeth. Eventually, this erosion results in a full-fledged hole right through your tooth, at which point you'll have no choice but to ask your dentist to fill it. Luckily, tooth decay often reveals itself long before you reach that stage. As acids start to weaken the enamel, you might see a white spot on your tooth—meaning it's time to beef up your enamel's resistance before the decay progresses any further. Continued here

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Dust and Bones For the first time, scientists explore the way climate change and extreme heat are exacerbating migrant deaths at the U.S.-Mexico border. Continued here

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The Search for Scientific Proof for Premonitions When it finally happened, shortly after nine o’clock in the morning on October21, 1966—when the teetering pile of mining waste known as a coal tip collapsedafter days of heavy rain and an avalanche of black industrial sludge swept downthe Welsh mountainside into the village of Aberfan,when rocks and mining equipmentfrom the colliery slammed into people’s homes and the schools were buried and116 young children were asphyxiated by this slurry dark as the river Styx—theanguished public response was that someone should have seen this disastercoming, ought to have predicted it.   Continued here

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Your family chose your ex. Now what? Breaking up with someone is rarely easy, and that’s even more the case when your family refuses to let go. Maybe your former partner came for all the holidays, and your mom won’t stop talking about the time he saved her dog from choking; maybe your cousin keeps comparing your newest love interest to the relationship that ended half a decade ago. In my family’s case, my brother-in-law walking out on my sister slashed our family in two: those who empathized with my sister, and those who threw their lot in with her ex. This obviously got complicated because we had spent over two decades falling in love with my ex brother-in-law, but he was no longer the person we met long ago. Continued here

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Is It Ever a Good Idea To Date Your Friends? The pro, of course, is that you likely know your friend well. You have a strong foundation built on plenty of common ground and shared memories. For some, friendship is like a litmus test for romance. They can’t imagine having someone as a lover if they don’t even have them as a friend. Continued here

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Canada's real estate market is slumping, but experts say it won't crash -- here's why “If the rate of immigration and current changes in household formation behaviour persists, we would likely not have a housing crash over the mid- to long-term,” said Kate Choi, an associate professor of sociology at Western University and director of the Centre for Research on Social Inequality. Continued here

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A 45-year-old who's been 'fake retired' for 10 years shares the surprising lessons he learned when he tried to retire early That's a fair point, which is why I think more people should embrace the term "fake retirement." Many of us early retirees are writing blog posts, recording videos, creating e-courses, writing books or selling art. I still run my blog Financial Samurai, and I just spent two years working on my personal finance book, "Buy This, Not That." Continued here

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Hidden iPhone Tricks That Will Make Your Life Easier Often, iPhone tips and tricks are about going above and beyond to do something worthy of a double-take. Triple tapping the back of your iPhone to make it take a screenshot or mute the volume, for instance—that’s neat. Not everyone needs their phone to do that type of thing though. I’m more interested in making sure everyone knows about a few foundational features that have graduated and moved beyond being tricks. Continued here

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What does GPT-3 "know" about me? Large language models are trained on troves of personal data hoovered from the internet. So I wanted to know: What does it have on me? Continued here

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One Great Article About Every Planet in the Solar System Mercury is shrinking. Venus may once have been as fit for life as Earth. It rains diamonds on Neptune. Get to know the planets beyond ”My Very Excellent Mom Just Served Us Noodles” with one fascinating thing to read about each of the eight, or, depending on who you ask, nine worlds in our Solar System. Yes, we’re throwing Pluto a bone. Continued here

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How melting glaciers and a 'monster' monsoon caused devastating floods in Pakistan The entire region is responsible for only a minuscule level of carbon emissions, with Pakistan and Bangladesh producing less than 1 per cent, but it is a “climate crisis hotspot”, as highlighted recently by UN secretary general António Guterres and previously in reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Continued here

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Durant tells Nets owner to trade him or fire Nash, Marks: Sources In a face-to-face meeting with Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai over the weekend, All-NBA star Kevin Durant reiterated his trade request and informed Tsai that he needs to choose between Durant or the pairing of general manager Sean Marks and coach Steve Nash, sources with direct knowledge of the... Continued here

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Kirk Herbstreit, voice of college football, tackles the NFL, age and a changing sport For Herbstreit, standing at the center of the sport’s unmistakable pageantry has always felt perfectly natural, like a calling from birth. This commercial, while contrived, should serve a twofold purpose: to remind people why they continue to worship a sport that many feel has lost its way — and that, no matter how much the game changes, no matter how much fun he has broadcasting Thursday night NFL games on Prime Video with Al Michaels this fall, Herbstreit’s heart still beats to college football’s delirious drum. Continued here

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The Surprising History of the Slur Beyonc How did the controversial term go from middle-school slang to verboten? The answer lies on the other side of the Atlantic. Continued here

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How a 500,000-Word Harry Potter Fanfiction Blew Up Online A foundational blessing and curse of the internet is that it provides a space for every fan community you can possibly imagine. If you're into One Direction, Shrek, or say, the 2005 multiplayer online game Club Penguin, your people are out there. And if you're into Harry Potter, you've really hit the jackpot. Far beyond the officially sanctioned realm of Wizarding World, there's fan sites, message boards, hashtags, vlogs, and of course, fan fiction. Continued here

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Cheap heats: microwave cooking tips to save you time and money Microwaving vegetables in a vacuum pack is one of the healthiest ways to eat them as well as the best way to ensure they cook evenly, according to the chef Jonny Marsh (@chef_jonnymarsh), who has worked with Panasonic as well as being a personal chef to Premier League footballers.To prepare meals, he recommends purchasing a roll of vacuum packs (available on Amazon) and setting all your raw vegetables – for instance sliced carrots, broccoli or green beans – out for the week. Continued here

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The Death of Pennsylvania's Forgotten Funeral Pie On a warm August morning in 1880, a coffin containing the body of Christian Herr, borne by eight pallbearers, led a procession of 1,500 mourners to the Old Mennonite Church in Millersville, Pennsylvania. The 68-year-old reverend had been well-liked, and the crowd was filled with relatives, friends, and members of the congregation. But the large group almost certainly contained several “funeral runners,” a type of mourner that often popped up at Pennsylvania German memorials in the 1800s. These attendees weren’t there to pay their respects. They were there for the food. Continued here

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Indie devs outraged by unlicensed game sales on GameStop's NFT market [Updated] While the man behind NiFTy Arcade has since been suspended from GameStop's NFT marketplace, he's still holding on to the tens of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency he made by selling those NFTs before the suspension. And while the NFTs in question are no longer listed on the GameStop NFT marketplace, the unlicensed games themselves can still be accessed on GameStop's servers and across a distributed file storage system, where they may now be functionally impossible to remove. Continued here

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The ticking time bomb of modern free-to-play games Dragalia Lost launched in 2018 as a statement of intent from Nintendo in partnership with Japanese developer Cygames. Nintendo may have first jumped into the field of mobile games in 2016 with the launch of games like Super Mario Run and Miitomo, but this was the first original property the company had produced exclusively for mobile devices. This free-to-play gacha game (a game whose content is generally free to access while charging microtransactions for loot boxes and randomized lotteries for rare and limited-time characters) had a flashy multi-region launch campaign collaborating with major Japanese musician DAOKO, banking on the game’s success at home and abroad. Continued here

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'Goodnight Moon': 75 years in the great green room Indeed, for generations this book about a great green room with a telephone and red balloon has been a part of millions of bedtime rituals. But when "Goodnight Moon" was first published in 1947, the techniques employed by author Margaret Wise Brown were both innovative and radical. Rather than relying on traditional folk tales and fables to deliver a moral message, Ms. Brown wrote stories about the preoccupations of children, their curiosities and emotions and fears. Continued here

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What Babies Hear When You Sing to Them Randy Lubin recalls the exact moment his life became an improvised musical. The 35-year-old game designer from San Francisco never used to sing, not even in the shower or alone in the car. At his wife’s request, he would perform the kiddush, a Jewish prayer sung each week during Shabbat, but that was it. “Singing wasn’t something I sought out or particularly found a lot of joy in,” Lubin told me. Continued here

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They Lost Their Pregnancies. Then Prosecutors Sent Them to Prison More than 50 women have been prosecuted for child neglect or manslaughter in the United States since 1999 because they tested positive for drug use after a miscarriage or stillbirth, according to an investigation by The Marshall Project, The Frontier and AL.com that was co-edited and published in partnership with The Washington Post. Continued here

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Behind the American Right's Fascination With Viktor Orb ungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has become a hero for the American right. This past January, Tucker Carlson relocated his Fox News show for the second time to Budapest. In May, Orbán himself opened a special event in Budapest organized by the U.S. Conservative Political Action Conference; the Hungarian leader was a guest again at the group’s annual meeting this month in Texas, where his declaration that “the globalists can all go to hell” was greeted with hosannas. Continued here

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The summer holidays are over. But why go away at all? At the end of a tenebrous alley, where assassins may once have lurked, is an ornate 15th-century palace. You ascend a candlelit staircase and find a seat in the hall. Violetta is preparing for the soirée that opens “La Traviata”, an opera that had its premiere in Venice in 1853. At Musica a Palazzo it has only three musicians, as many singers, and you, the audience, doubling as party guests. To go with Verdi and the frescoes, at the interval you get a glass of prosecco in a salon overlooking the Grand Canal. Continued here

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The British islands that disappear every day The loo sits on the edge of a cluster of stone cottages on the miniscule Maîtresse Île, the only island in the tiny Minquiers archipelago to bear any imprint of civilisation. This is the British Isles' southern frontier: a group of islands and reefs 10 miles south of Jersey, at the mercy of one of the largest tidal ranges in the world. Continued here

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How to Navigate Conflict with a Coworker Interpersonal conflicts are common in the workplace, and it’s easy to get caught up in them. But that can lead to reduced creativity, slower and worse decision-making, and even fatal mistakes. So how can we return to our best selves? Having studied conflict management and resolution over the past several years, the author outlines seven principles to help you work more effectively with difficult colleagues: (1) Understand that your perspective is not the only one possible. (2) Be aware of and question any unconscious biases you may be harboring. (3) View the conflict not as me-versus-them but as a problem to be jointly solved. (4) Understand what outcome you’re aiming for. (5) Be very judicious in discussing the issue with others. (6) Experiment with behavior change to find out what will improve the situation. (7) Make sure to stay curious about the other person and how you can more effectively work together. Continued here

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You’re never going to find the perfect workout When Tae Bo was all the rage in the late 1990s, Amanda Biers Melcher dove in head first. Living in LA, she says she’s tried “all of the workouts” — cardio barre, Bikram yoga when it was the (literally) hot thing, etc. But there was something special about the martial arts-inspired cardio fitness craze. Continued here

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In Uncertain Times, the Best Strategy Is Adaptability Companies everywhere labor under the illusion that the key to a great strategy is a good handle on the future. But meteorologist Edward Lorenz demonstrated that small differences can have massive consequences or none at all, which means that unless you have a perfect, complete picture of existing conditions, forecasting the future with any precision is impossible. Instead, advises Bain’s Michael Mankins, companies should focus on making themselves better able to cope with unexpected changes. For strategy, that involves instilling an adaptive mindset among managers, building in flexibility into operations, creating dynamic plans. Continued here

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How Fast Food Reveals Secrets of the Economy What is an economist’s favourite food? Burgers, chips and pizza might not immediately come to mind – but the consumption of meals like these can signal changes in people’s economic behaviour. Knowing the price of pizza in New York or the cost of a Big Mac in Beirut can tell market-watchers how the world’s cogs are turning. Continued here

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How to Figure Out the Power Dynamics in a New Job When you join a new organization, it’s important to understand who holds the power because they directly impact how work gets done, but it’s not always perfectly clear. In this piece, the author offers strategies to better identify where the true power exists.  “At first glance across your company, it’s natural to assume that those who have ‘chief’ or ‘senior’ in their titles are the ones that dominate the power landscape,” the author writes. “But this isn’t always the case.” Continued here

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Americans are terrible at taking vacations. Why are U.S. workers so bad at taking time off? U.S. companies are stingy with vacation time when compared with other countries. But U.S. workers can't seem to leave work at work anyway. Continued here

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Solar power helps an Indian state vaccinate | DW | 02.09.2022 "Solar Direct Drive (SDD) refrigeration systems run on electricity provided by solar energy. They can keep vaccines at their appropriate temperature, without the need for electricity from a national grid. Power is stored using different non-battery-based technologies," said Anil Agarwal, a health specialist working for the UNICEF. Continued here

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Why is the Johnson and Johnson talc powder still being sold in India? The Johnson and Johnson talc powder for babies has been stirring controversy globally. Most of us have grown up with that comforting ‘baby’ scent. And yet we were completely unaware of just how hazardous it was.  In 1971 to the early 2000s, the talc tested positive for small amounts of asbestos (known to be carcinogenic) — this is recorded in internal company records, according to Reuters. The company has been dealing with thousands of lawsuits from women who have claimed to develop ovarian cancer allegedly through the powder. Till date though, the company continues to stand by their claim that the product is safe, tested via independent scientific analysis. Continued here

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Meteor crater: The hole from space that keeps on giving Research payoffs from the out-of-this-world Meteor Crater are ongoing. Continued here

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How Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series | Quanta Magazine Rethinking questions and chasing patterns led Newton to find the connection between curves and infinite sums. Continued here

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These Are The 7 Stretches You Should Do Every Day Sit a lot? Even if you have perfect posture, that’s not good news for your body on multiple levels. For starters, sitting eight hours a day has been shown to raise your risk of stroke, heart disease, and hypertension, to name a few. Moreover, studies show that long periods of sitting can lead to lower back pain, while other research indicates it can strain the muscles in your neck and shoulder. Continued here

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4 Ways to Learn Anything Shortening the learning curve is a topic that's been studied for many years. I've personally applied what I'm about to share now to learning how to speak Spanish, English, and Korean (plus a bit of Portuguese). You will also be able to leverage these principles in any topic including business, musical instruments, and more. Continued here

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Is it ever a good idea to stop paying into your UK workplace pension pot? “The cost of living crisis is having a negative impact on individuals and families right now, curtailing their ability to save, invest or contribute to their pension. People are having to take these more severe measures to plug the financial gaps they face – decisions which will sadly have a negative impact on their long-term finances if they are unable to reverse them soon,” said Richard Eagling, a pensions expert at the price comparison website NerdWallet. Continued here

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Americans keep moving to where the water isn't Even with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act — which, name aside, is the most ambitious piece of climate-related legislation ever passed by Congress — the US is locked into decades of rising temperatures and more extreme weather. Just how warm it will get will depend on how quickly we can reduce carbon emissions and how sensitive the climate proves to be, but average global temperature increases of between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial norms seem most likely, with some regions experiencing much worse extremes. Continued here

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I Had Nothing Better to Do Than Vacation in Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse. Or So I Thought! One man’s trip into virtual inanity. Continued here

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5 Tech Tricks for Learning a Musical Instrument Whether you want to pursue a career in music or simply enjoy making sweet sounds that only you will hear, learning how to play an instrument is one of the most popular ways to share your melodies with the world. It can feel like a daunting, frustrating task, but technology can smooth out the learning curve. Continued here

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What Happened to Anne Boleyn's Heart? If YOU ASKED PEOPLE WHAT body part you would associate with Anne Boleyn, most would probably say her head. Logical, of course. It was the part famously detached from the rest of her body on May 19, 1536, at the orders of her husband, English king Henry VIII. Henry had broken with the Roman Catholic Church to divorce his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, to marry Anne. But when she failed to give him the male heir he so desired, he decided to move on to another wife (Jane Seymour, wife #3 of his eventual six wives), accused Anne of treason and adultery (even with her brother), and ordered her execution. Continued here

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What Ended This Hub of Ancient Maya Life? Archaeologists led by Carlos Peraza Lope, of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia of Mexico, and Marilyn Masson, of the University at Albany–State University of New York, have been investigating the ruins of Mayapán intensively since 1996 and 1999, respectively. Intermittent work has been going on at the site since the 1950s. Continued here

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John McEnroe Has Finally Found Inner Peace. Maybe. The tennis legend and subject of the new Showtime doc “McEnroe” sat down with us to discuss his highs, lows, Tatum O’Neal, and a memorable meeting with Princess Di. Continued here

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Inside LeBron's grand plan to play in the NBA with Bronny and Bryce - Sports Illustrated Biologically speaking, a teenager’s brain is something of a train wreck. For starters, it’s low in myelin, the coating that allows various regions to communicate with one another. Meanwhile, the prefrontal cortex is developing at warp speed, so things that a child once took for granted—like the idea that their parents know what they’re talking about—suddenly seem ripe for reevaluation. Thus, in addition to acting on seemingly every impulse, a teen is programmed to break away from their parents. This is natural and healthy, but that doesn’t make it any easier for a parent—even a wildly successful and wealthy one, like LeBron James. Continued here

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In the Game of Streaming, You Either Win or You Die Prime Video has spent nearly a billion dollars to ensure that ‘The Rings of Power’ is the next ‘Game of Thrones.’ There’s just one little thing standing in its way: ‘House of the Dragon,’ the literal next installment of ‘Game of Thrones.’ Continued here

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Pocket's Top 10 Stories for August 2022 How to revive an old computer, estimate distance using only your thumb, and introduce yourself properly. Plus: The best science fiction books of all time. Continued here

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Foreign Candy Puts American Candy to Shame At Sunrise Mart, a small Japanese grocery with a branch in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, you can’t miss the mountain of KitKats. The shop sells all kinds of fresh foods and imported snacks, but as soon as you step inside, you’re toe-to-toe with an enormous heap of colorful bags of the chocolate bars, rising up from the floor in the store’s most prominent real estate. The bags offer flavors such as lychee, chocolate orange, and cheesecake. At $10 each, they’re a little expensive. That doesn’t seem to matter. When I visited the store this spring in search of soup ingredients, multiple shoppers buzzed around me on an otherwise slow weekday afternoon, snapping up bag after bag. Continued here

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The Easiest Ways to Open a Can Without a Can Opener One basic rule of life is that everything is easy with the proper tools, and nearly impossible without them. A great example of how this works is the can opener: Although we’ve had the pull-tab design since 1962, you can still somehow find plenty of canned goods on the grocery shelves that lack this simple advancement—and if you have one and lack a can opener, you will quickly learn the definition of futility. Continued here

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Jason Brassard Spent His Lifetime Collecting the Rarest Video Games. Until the Heist. He tries his best to forget about the safe. But when he has a few free minutes and is cleaning the pins of old Nintendo cartridges with rubbing alcohol and Q-tips, a little piece of him dies every time he thinks about how he could've been so naive. When he ran the place, he would man the counter from a swivel chair next to the cash register, a can of Diet Coke by the keyboard of his desktop computer, his palms at the edge of a Super Mario World mouse pad. He'd lined his shelves with Pokémon and PAC-MAN figurines, Sonic the Hedgehog plushies, T-shirts and stickers with the store's logo, dog-eared stacks of GamePro and Nintendo Power, and a feng shui of other games. Drawers nested all sorts of controllers smothered in black cords. Until he was forced to sully the store by putting jail bars on the windows and installing security cameras out front, Trade-N-Games had been lighthearted in spirit and charming in its accentuations. He'd wanted customers to experience what it had been like to be part of the video game generation that had discovered Nintendo and Sega. He had wished to replicate for people that feeling that usually disappears as they settle into adulthood. There's a "great buys" bargain bin and a giant glass collector's case. Continued here

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The Collectors Who Save Video-Game History from Oblivion Michelle Flitman, a recent art-school graduate who lives in a suburb of Chicago, grew up in a home full of video games. To her dad, Mark, they were the odds and ends of corporate life: he was a game producer and designer who worked on NFL Blitz 2003, Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage, and WWF Raw. But to Michelle, they were part of the fabric of childhood, and she thought her father deserved some recognition. Continued here

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My Mother-in-Law Is Hellbent on Turning My Kid Into a Picky Eater Parenting advice on picky eaters, a lost tooth, and talking about suicide. Continued here

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12 Once Normal Baby Names That Pop Culture Basically Ruined I’m not one of those joyless people who thinks there’s something wrong with giving children creative and unusual names—I’d rather meet a little kid named Killarney than Kevin any day. But parents are tying their offspring to the associations people have with certain names, so they should at least consider what they’re in for before they write “Adolph” on the birth certificate. Continued here

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'I would wish this on absolutely no one': How three women dealt with pregnancy in the year since Texas' six-week abortion ban We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons license as long as you follow our republishing guidelines, which require that you credit The 19th and retain our pixel. See our full guidelines for more information. Continued here

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What I Learned About Media Rage After Getting Fired From Fox At the time, I was the network’s new political editor. Republicans were poised to deliver a serious walloping to President Barack Obama and roll back the Democrats’ doughty majorities in both houses of Congress. The GOP was in a position to score major wins in governors’ mansions and statehouses from coast to coast. Continued here

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The Humiliating History of the TSA Peoplecryatairportsallthetime.SowhenJaiCooperheardsobbingfromthebackofthesecurityline,itdidn'treallyfazeher.AsanofficeroftheTransportationSecurityAdministration(TSA),shehadgottenusedtothestrangebehaviorofpassengers.Herjobwastocheckpeople'straveldocuments,nottheiremotionalwell-being. Continued here

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Add These 19 Things to Your Travel Checklist Before Leaving on a Trip While you're assembling your packing list, here's what you need to pack and prep ahead of your next vacation. Continued here

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Utopias: Does living in a perfect society mean you must give up your freedom? “What can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities?” Fyodor Dostoevsky asks in his 1864 novella Notes from Underground. “Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species.” Continued here

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Don’t Let Anchoring Bias Weigh Down Your Judgment Even expert decision makers who should know better can fall into the trap of anchoring. That’s the cognitive bias where our minds assign too much weight to information that is easily accessible but unfortunately irrelevant. Anchoring can prove costly in negotiations and key financial decisions. However, strategies such as research, critical thinking, and zero-based budgeting can help keep our thinking well-grounded. It’s even possible to understand and use the anchoring bias of others to your advantage in negotiations. Continued here

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Can the American Mall Survive? In the days before the pandemic, when I visited the Museum of Modern Art, I would stop at Mrs. Fields. Mrs. Fields does not have the best cookies, especially in a city teeming with boutique bakeries. But getting a snack there was never about the quality of the food itself. A Mrs. Fields cookie summons up a weekend in the early 1990s when my parents would pack me and my siblings into our Volvo station wagon and drive us half an hour over state lines to the mall in Stamford, Connecticut. There, my mom would peruse high-end stores that didn’t have locations in our hometown, while my dad would take us kids to buy cookies and eat them on the steps that formed the mall’s gathering spot. Continued here

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Toy story: Made in India As a young parent 21 years ago, Sonali Aggarwal didn’t have much choice when it came to buying toys for her kid. China was already a manufacturing hub by then for American and European companies, though its toy studios and designers were yet to emerge. In India, traditional toys had long been forgotten and the modern toy industry lacked in scale, investment and innovation. For quality toys, Sonali depended on friends coming from abroad or her own trips overseas. But the huge demand-supply gap was something that irked Sonali and her entrepreneur husband, Sunil Aggarwal. They were soon among the first ones to start importing toys and other kids’ stuff from China. Continued here

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How to Say No to Busywork and Supercharge Your Career The chorus of asks has always been there, demanding our time. But as we head back to offices, it’s harder to hide from the busywork. Colleagues are eager to unload administrative tasks once absorbed by a shrinking population of executive assistants. Bosses feel pressure to check off requests from their superiors for yet another report or spreadsheet. And you’re just the person to do it. Continued here

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'Avoid these 2 resume words at all costs,' says career expert—here are 35 power verbs to use instead The best resumes have powerful and descriptive action verbs, says career coach and bestselling author Ken Coleman. He shares the two words to remove from your resume ASAP — and what to use instead. Continued here

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Inside the weird world of cryotherapy, biocharging and fecal transplants The members of Longevity House are united by two things: a willingness to hand over $100,000 and a burning desire to live forever Continued here

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Bodyweight Challenge: “I Tried a 4-Week Push up Challenge–Here's How It Went” We all have that one exercise we love to hate. For some it's burpees, for others it's the plank, but for me it's push ups. I know they're fantastic for building upper body strength but I find them really tough. As such, I've always avoided them in my workouts, swapping them out for other exercises or opting for the easiest, modified version I can manage. Continued here

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Extraordinary Phenomenon in Space Captured by Spellbinding New Image The Universe, truly, is full of wonders, and the James Webb Space Telescope has just given us our best views of one of them yet. Continued here

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A dried-up arm of the Nile provides another clue to how Egyptians built the pyramids Geographers discovered a dried-up arm of the Nile River that helped the ancient Egyptians construct the pyramids of Giza. Continued here

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How Many Books Will You Read Before You Die? Okay, so we all accept that mortality is bearing down on us—though it should be said that one of the mental tricks that makes it possible for us to exist as mortal beings without going completely insane is that we actually experience time as infinite, even though we know it isn’t. That is, barring an execution date or a known terminal illness, we wake up every morning assuming we’ll also wake up the next morning, until one morning we don’t—and on that morning, we don’t know it. Because we’re dead. So if we accept that the world we live in is a subjective construct made up of our perceptions, we’re actually all immortal—we live forever within the context of reality we’ve created for ourselves, because when we die, so does that reality. Doesn’t that make all this a little better? Continued here

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How to Do Everything If you want to know how to do something, don't just search the internet. Instead, find a person who already knows how and ask them. At first, they’ll give you a hurried, broad-strokes kind of answer, assuming that you’re uninterested in all the procedural details. But of course that’s precisely what you’re after! Ask for a slowed-down, step-by-step guide through the minutiae of the thing. Continued here

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The Ballad of Downward Mobility In the summers of my youth, the rooms were always air-conditioned. This machine-cooled air came not from window units, which were a relic of the cities, but from central systems that chilled every inch of living space to an Alaskan 67 degrees. The air seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere. It had no warm spots, no eddies, no pockets of humidity. It was a sea of comfort that ran from the threshold of the front door—passing from yard to house was like moving between seasons—to the peak of the finished attic. Now here I am, in the late summer of 2022, eons away from my 1970s and ’80s suburban childhood, in a world beset by heat waves, droughts, wars, and disasters, sitting before a Walgreens fan, bathed in sweat and meditating on the wealth of nations and the fate of the American dream. And the realization comes that I am just one of the millions of members of Generation X who, looking into the sun of the thing, must admit that we are in fact downwardly mobile, the first American generation that will perform worse economically than their parents. Continued here

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How Money Warps the Friendships Between Men and Women It's the sort of question that must always be asked and answered anew by each generation. It first came up back when men started giving women the eye from across the caveman fire pit. In more recent times, it's become a leitmotif for countless romantic comedies: Can straight men and women truly ever be friends?  Continued here

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Twitter Gets an Edit Button The company announced today that the edit tweet function is being tested internally and will shortly be available to those who pay for Twitter Blue, the company’s subscription service. While the ability to edit tweets will be limited to those who pay $5 a month for now, all Twitter users will be able to see tweets that have been edited in their timelines—alongside evidence that they’ve been changed post-publication. Continued here

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A New Approach to Car Batteries Is About to Transform EVs Weight is one of the biggest banes for car designers and engineers. Batteries are exceedingly heavy and dense, and with the internal combustion engine rapidly pulling over for an electric future, the question of how to deal with an EV’s added battery mass is becoming all the more important. Continued here

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10 Chance Meetings That Changed the World Some call it fate. Others call it destiny. And some just brush it off as coincidence. But however you view it, life has a funny way of bringing people together at just the right place and time. Check out some of the most random historical encounters we could find—meetings that, had they not happened, would have resulted in a very different world today. Continued here

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How to read philosophy | Psyche Guides The first thing to remember is that the great philosophers were only human. Then you can start disagreeing with them Continued here

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2022 NFL season: Predicting every game, all 32 team records - Sports Illustrated If you’ve ever played The Sims, you know the feeling: laboring over the completely virtual existence of computer people and computer houses and computer jobs. In the moment, waiting for a copy of the SimCity Times to see what employment opportunities were available in the virtual computer newspaper felt more important than some of the tasks and relationships happening in the real world of the 12-year-old at the controls. Continued here

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'22 Goals': Diego Maradona, 1986 World Cup in Mexico Brian Phillips’s first installment in his series chronicling the most iconic goals in the history of the World Cup belongs to soccer’s most talented and destructive genius Continued here

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What Perry Mason Taught Americans About the Criminal Justice System When it launched on television in the late 1950s, “Perry Mason” represented the birth of the courtroom procedural; it’s still a familiar, if not over-used, genre. For decades, Raymond Burr’s Perry Mason, a criminal defense attorney who almost always emerged from the court victorious was America’s most loved lawyer. The character has been cited in more than 250 judicial opinions, and when Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton was charged with murder in 1968, a party official reportedly asked their potential attorney, “Are you as good as Perry Mason?” Continued here

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The 100 Greatest Country Albums of All Time From Tom T. Hall to Taylor Swift, from honky Bob Wills to Brandy Clark Continued here

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Armenia's Ancient Ovens Are Hot Again “I closed it quickly before the roof caved in,” says Aghajanyan. “The lady who owned the property said not to go in because the wood could be saved for her fireplace.” The ceiling, and the house, remained intact. So did one of the home’s most treasured objects: an 11th-century tonir. Continued here

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Life Is Better With These Cinnamon Corn Cookies With all the savory odes-to-corn out in the world, I thought it was time to lengthen the dessert list. Corn has the versatility to be an herby salad, covered in cotija, served next to ribs or as them, but it’s also undeniably sweet. I’m a dessert girl at heart, so grab an extra ear or a bag of the frozen stuff, and let’s make some cookies. Continued here

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The 17 most exciting video game releases of fall 2022 Despite numerous delays, the fall video game release schedule still holds plenty of promise. Highly anticipated action games are set to arrive alongside deeply engrossing visual novels; turn-based strategy games are looking to avoid a sophomore slump; gods are still trying to be good dads. With such a wide swath of genres to choose from, it’s a daunting time to keep up with video games. Continued here

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Upcoming Steam Game Is Literally Just A Squirrel With A Gun Video games can offer us a chance to inhabit new worlds or discover new experiences. They can show us things we’ve never seen or dreamed of. Like an ancient civilization or a far-off alien planet somewhere deep in the cosmos. Or uh…what about a squirrel with a gun who can shoot people? Yeah, that’s cool too. Continued here

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How to Teach Your Kids the Difference Between Wants and Needs As parents, we all want to make our children happy—we want them to have that coveted toy or the next fun experience. But there are always going to be times when your children want something that doesn’t fit into the family budget; a pricy new video game, an expensive summer camp, or a trendy piece of clothing is not always going to be possible. When that happens, though, it’s an opportunity for you to talk with your kids about the realities of money, which includes making the distinction between something we want versus something we need. Continued here

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My Daughter Just Confided in Me About Her Love Life. My Ex-Wife Is Not Going to Be Happy About This. Our daughter is frightened. Continued here