Новости за 10.04.2019

Feeding bread to birds is a pastime as old as extra bread. But while birds are happy to scoop up your stale offerings, there are a lot of reasons why this is a bad idea.

When my son was in preschool, I saw an idea floating around my parenting circles: Choose a sentimental book and, starting in kindergarten, have his teacher write him a note on a page in the book. Do this every year through high school. On graduation day, give him the book.

I have a lot of prescription bottles lying around with unused pills. Some from my wisdom teeth removal, others from a recent bout with food poisoning, and a couple for my creaky, inflamed joints.

Plunging oneself into extremely cold water is something most humans avoid, as it does not feel good, and people like to feel good. It’s quite jarring, but invigorating, and has the added bonus of making you hyper-aware of your breathing, circulatory system, and any other parts of your body that usually function…

Last week, budget airline Wow Air went out of business, canceling all flights and stranding passengers wherever they happened to be at the time.

Your DNA says a lot about you, and it’s likely that either you or a relative is represented in one of the DNA databases that are now being used to track down criminals. But mailing in a vial of spit does not automatically put you in a database that law enforcement can access. Your privacy risk depends which type of…

If you are among the 70% of Americans who are eligible to e-file your taxes for free—or among the nearly 100% of Americans who wish the tax filing process wasn’t so complicated—here’s what you need to know about a new bill that is rapidly working its way through Congress.

Think for a moment about how it feels when your boss gives you a compliment about your work on a project. Now think how it feels when you overhear your boss singing your praises to another manager.

The time has come: Sony has finally announced it will allow PlayStation 4 owners to change their User IDs—the name you go by when you’re playing games online—starting later today. The feature is a long time coming, and gamers, particularly those of us who have been hamstrung with the same handle since creating a…

If I have the option to estimate rather than measure exactly, I am always going to choose to eyeball it. This is true when it comes to butter, and this is true when it comes to coffee. Rather than scoop and level my coffee grounds before adding them to the pot, I pour them directly into the brewing basket. This used…

Democratic presidential hopefuls will face off in a public forum on LGBTQ issues this fall. The event, slated for National Coming Out Day on October 10, marks the first time Democratic candidates have debated queer issues since 2008, when Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, and Barack Obama faced off in a…

A few years ago, I read an article about people ingesting metal grill brush bristles that has stayed with me in the way that certain scenes from all those Stephen King novels I read in my youth have, i.e. in the way that makes me bolt upright in terror in the middle of the night. (Damn you, Langoliers!)

You know that scene in Mrs. Doubtfire? The one where the titular character orders takeout from a fancy restaurant and plates it so the family thinks that their new mysterious nanny is a great cook?

Verizon Gateway G1100 routers may be at risk of being hacked due to serious vulnerabilities present on older firmware versions. The simplest way to explain these security risks is that they made it easy to intercept login credentials and gain access to a router remotely. If you’re interested in a more detailed and…

If you can’t stand yard work, and Amazon’s discounting several GreenWorks tools in today’s Gold Box to make it just a little easier.

A new study published in Academic Pediatrics confirms that mothers of fussy babies are more likely to experience symptoms of depression than mothers of “easy” babies. Researchers pulled data from more than 8,200 children and their parents and found “the less soothable the infant, the more distressed the mother,” a …

Android’s flexibility means manufacturers can build their own versions of the OS to suit their hardware, but there’s an elegance to the stock Android experience found on Google’s devices—one that other Android smartphones can’t match.

If you’ve ever built a desktop PC—and if you haven’t, you should give it a try—then you’ve probably had at least one (or possibly a number) of mishaps. It happens. Computers are still a little complex, whether you’re building a basic rig or cooling your system with scary, parts-destroying liquids.

No one likes to admit that they’ve been rejected for a credit card, but it happens to more of us than you might think.

For years, there was one good satirical news site on the internet. The Onion (now a sister blog of Lifehacker) had many imitators, none of them successful. Then the field opened up: Reductress parodied women’s media; Babylon Bee and Landover Baptist made fun of Christian culture; the Onion launched a weirder site…

I have to put my dog in the car almost daily. Between daycare, trips to the park, and the occasional errand, he travels a lot. He isn’t the biggest fan of car rides—and I’m not the biggest fan of his fur sticking to everything—so we’ve had to put in some effort to make the car more comfortable for us all.

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