Two Ways to Get Your iPhone to Stop 'Ducking' Around

Perhaps our phones are trying to do us a favor by erring on the side of politeness, but boy, they sure do love to venture to keep us from swearing, dont they? Unless you actually do regularly mean to playfully tell your friends to duck off, there are a few ways it’s possible for you to fix iOS Messages sometimes helpful, often annoying autocorrect featureand they work for more than just your popular swears....

June 29, 2021 · 3 min · 471 words · Brooke Vazquez

That Time When The French Divided The Day Into 10 hours

Why do we do this? Is it out of habit, or is there any inherent advantage of measuring time by base 60? Diving a circle into 360 degrees was also their idea. In any case, these systems were adopted throughout the world and are now the standards of measuring time. But what if we change the standards? would be from tens into tens. He also suggested a week of 10 days and dividing the year into 10 “solar months”....

June 28, 2021 · 1 min · 192 words · Lisa Davis

How to Stop Looking at Your Ex’s Social Media

Youre more likely to see them doing wellor pretending toand that can hurt. So, its time to stop creeping on your ex. Here are a few things to try. Youre making excuses to put off cutting them out of your life. In the immortal words ofReal Housewives of Atlantas Cynthia Bailey, Delete. Get them off of your social feeds. Of course, this most basic step is not a guarantee you wont go looking for their profile again....

June 25, 2021 · 2 min · 345 words · Kimberly Andrews

The Lartigue Monorail of Listowel

Specially-built carriages would sit astride the trestles like panniers on a camels back. Indeed, it was camels that inspired French engineer Charles Lartigue to come up with this system. A replica of the Lartigue Monorail that ran between Ballybunion and Listowel for 36 years. When it opened on February 29th, 1888, it was the world’s first passenger-carrying monorail. The Lartigue Monorail was cheap to construct but extremely tricky to operate....

June 25, 2021 · 1 min · 195 words · Jeffrey Anderson DVM

Gympie-Gympie: The Stinging Plant Which Can Inflict Pain For Months

She needed hospitalization once. But Gympie-Gympie is the worst of its kind. The entire plant is covered in small needle-like hairs. Researchers have reported that even dried leaves can have their hairs full of toxin. An electron micrograph of stinging hairs. Photo: Marina Hurley Leaves of Gympie-Gympie. Worse still, the plant constantly sheds its needles like a cat shedding fur. Marina Hurley was exposed to airborne hairs over a long period of time....

June 24, 2021 · 2 min · 219 words · Nancy Mckee

How Do I Share Space With Someone I Hate?

Not all advice need be professional. Luckily for you, Im that guy. Welcome back to Tough Love. What do you do when youre going to have to spend multiple days with this person? Can you avoid them? Note: Im a columnist, not a therapist or certified healthcare professional. My advice should be interpreted with that in mind. If you have a problem with anything I say,file a complaint here.Now, let us begin....

June 24, 2021 · 3 min · 502 words · Sherri Chaney

How to Make Sense of What Apple Has Done to the Podcasts App

Unfortunately, the changes have proved frustrating to many longtime app usersbut there are ways to manage them. Others, like John Gruber atDaring Fireball,welcomed some of the changes. It also features recommendations for channels and shows that you might like, based on your history. At the bottom, it lists what you have recently been listening to. (More on that in a moment.) Searchis the appsotherdiscovery feature. (Anything older isnt displayed.) Note that these are the latest available episodes of your showsit doesnt necessarily mean theyve been downloaded for you....

June 22, 2021 · 1 min · 176 words · Kendra Hendricks

I'm Talent Manager ChiChi Anyanwu and This Is How I Work

How do we actually have a stake in the game if we continue to make other people money? How did you come to the decision to start your own company? Im in my 30s now, Im just tired of working for folks. How do we actually have a stake in the game if we continue to make other people money? With everything thats happening in the world, ownership is something that Ive always thought about....

June 22, 2021 · 3 min · 613 words · Stuart Hoffman

The Bell Cemeteries of World War 2

Nearly every German family in every German town contributed something to the two World Wars. For many, it was their men. For others, it was precious metal. Church bells of all sizes await their fate in a bell cemetery in Wilten, Austria. Failure to do so could attract up to a year in prison. Besides pots, pans and statues, church bells all over the country began to disappear. Churches were allowed to keep the insignificant bells, usually those smaller than 25 cm....

June 21, 2021 · 2 min · 244 words · Spencer Stafford

What 'Good Weight Lifting Form' Really Means (and When It Matters)

Unless you enjoy getting injured, you should use good form at the gym. But what exactly does good form mean, and how much of a difference does it make? First, lets talk about the purpose of form. For that, we turn toJordan Syatt, a world record powerlifter and Westside Certified Barbell instructor. Building this habit makes you familiar with the lift once you do increase the weight. Train the right muscle groups....

June 21, 2021 · 2 min · 409 words · Ronnie Brown

One-Million-Liter Test Sphere

For most of its existence, the sphere remained hidden enclosed under a large wood and metal cube. But the timber has now disintegrated away revealing this extraordinary contraption with a sinister past. Fort Detrick was the center of the US biological weapons program from 1943 to 1969. Human volunteers could also breath in metered aerosols of infectious organisms through these ports. Such test allowed scientists to determine the lethal doses of biological agents....

June 18, 2021 · 1 min · 157 words · Barry Kennedy

There's More Than One Way to Make 'Authentic' Cornbread

Few dishes are as political and polarizing as cornbread. The original American cornbread recipe calls for cornmeal, salt, hot water, and lard. Cornbread is American, more so than apple pie. It originated with British colonists who adapted their baking to meal ground from white corn. It takes a skilled hand to ensure that it doesnt come out as solid as a brick. Theres an old-timey Jamaican saying: A bad pone can kill a pig....

June 18, 2021 · 2 min · 313 words · Michelle Burton

Here Are Some Dad Jokes for You

If we can call it that. What is a Dad Joke? (When does a joke become a Dad Joke? When it becomes apparent.) In other words, if its incredibly cheesy and makes you half-groan, half-smile, its a Dad Joke. (Its inappropriate to make a Dad Joke if youre not a dad. Its a faux pa.) What are your favorite Dad Jokes? Dad Jokes I could find. Feel free to bust any of these out during Sundays backyard barbecue....

June 17, 2021 · 2 min · 368 words · Eric Jones