Type “biggest monopolies today” into your Google search bar and click. What can you expect to find near the top of the list?
You guessed it: Google. Like Standard Oil and AT&T before government antitrust laws broke them up in 1911 and 1984 res…
The to-do list is often the foundation of a productivity system. From a paper checklist to an app that sends reminders, it’s a flexible workhorse. But it can also open the door to misuse or mistakes.
“I see a lot of people making their to-do list f…
The annual pattern of winter depression and melancholy—better known as seasonal affective disorder, or SAD—suggests a strong link between your mood and the amount of light you get during the day.
To put it simply: The less light exposure one has, t…
Estate planning is the ultimate important but (seemingly) not urgent task. You’re not even going to be there when it becomes an urgent problem, so it’s very easy to put it off for another day, or month, or year, or decade.
It doesn’t help that most…
Over the past decade, social media has evolved from a pastime and way to stay in touch with friends, to a prevalent mainstay in nearly everyone’s life. Think about it: When was the last time you checked Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok? Probably a momen…
Steven Petrow is known for his columns and essays about aging, health, and civility in The Washington Post and The New York Times. He is an award-winning journalist and a contributor to NPR, among other news outlets. His TED Talk, “Three Ways to Pract…
At some point during college, you were probably told to “make a LinkedIn” and “start networking” to land your first job. But did anyone actually teach you how? For recent graduates entering a tough job market, LinkedIn is more essential than ever as c…
Never before in a presidential election cycle has there been so much discussion of the child tax credit—a tool many Democrats and Republicans have endorsed as a way to lift children and young families out of poverty.Just three years ago, child poverty…
A former worker hacked servers at Walt Disney World after being fired in order to manipulate computer menus by changing prices, adding profanities and altering notifications to wrongly declare some items as safe for people with allergies, according to…
Staff at U.S. voting machine companies have removed public information about themselves from the internet and have made contingency plans with local law enforcement ahead of the 2024 election, after suffering harassment in 2020, according to industry …
