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Another close mom friend recently sent me a photo of her three children’s school supplies; it was a literal mountain of Amazon boxes. I only have one child and easily spent $100 give or take on school supplies each year — until I started teaching.Once I was on the other…
There’s a whole industry built on convincing you that staying healthy after 60 is complicated — and expensive. Supplements. Red-light masks. Cold plunges. $200 “longevity” blood panels. Trackers for every heartbeat. So I was glad to see some actual experts weigh in. On Sept. 1, U.S. News released its 2026…
Union security workers for the California offices of OpenAI, Anthropic, and other tech companies announced on Wednesday that they had authorized a strike.The security personnel, who are seeking better pay, are employed by staffing agencies that provide building security for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Salesforce, the SEIU-United Service Workers…
I was talking to a friend about cleaning recently. He said that he cleans the family home and I pointed out that this is something of a rarity, even though it shouldn’t be. My friend said that he doesn’t “help his wife” clean; it’s his home, too, and therefore also…
Pull the lid off your coffee maker’s water tank and take a whiff. If it smells a little funky, you’re not imagining things — and you’re not alone. NSF, the independent public-health testing group, ranks the coffee reservoir among the top 10 germiest spots in your home — right up…
When Jeremy Spiegel was looking for work in 2009, it was clear why finding a job might be difficult: it was the depths of the Great Recession.But when he lost his director role at a publishing company in 2024, there was no recession to blame. Spiegel, who’s in his 40s…
At 27, my daughter earns more than I did at 57. But she still can’t properly clean a coffee machine or remove sticky spills from her kitchen countertops.One of the few regrets I have as a parent is not encouraging her to work a minimum-wage job during her formative years.…
You probably know your driving record affects what you pay for car insurance. That makes perfect sense. However, there are other factors at play that are not so obvious. Join over 10 million drivers who have stopped overpaying by comparing rates with Insurify. It takes minutes to check, and it…
Domino’s is finally launching a truly personal pizza. Yay! Right? Except that the company’s announcement about it is weirdly sad. Hungry diners will be able to customize “without compromise,” it says, avoid “sacrifice,” and share a meal without actually sharing. Of course, pizza’s not that deep, but that’s sort of…
Shopify’s chief operating officer has one word to describe employees that will thrive in the AI era: “X-shaped.”On an episode of the “Rapid Response” podcast released on Wednesday, Jess Hertz said that Shopify previously embraced the idea of a “T-shaped person” — someone with broad capabilities but deep expertise in one…
