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3 questions interviewers hope you ask, and 3 they hope you don't “Interviews are like dating and you might as well be honest at the outset,” says Kelli Mason, chief operating officer of JobSage, an employee transparency platform. “We also know that people are scared, and they’re scared for good reason. There are questions that hiring managers don’t like, and if the hiring manager doesn’t like a line of questioning, they might consciously or subconsciously penalize the candidate for asking. In an ideal world, a candidate should not be afraid to ask a question, but we don’t live in an ideal world.” Continued here

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If at first you don't succeed, raise $350 million and try again Housing in the United States has a problem. And Adam Neumann, the charismatic founder known for successfully rebranding shared office space as WeWork, and unsuccessfully running it, thinks he has a solution: Flow. This residential real estate startup wants to address a wide variety of issues, including housing availability, a lack of social interactions in a remote world, and the inability of renters to gain equity. Continued here

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These are the 14 most in-demand job categories right now Despite rising inflation and weakness in the economy, the U.S. jobs market remains strong. As CNBC reports, the unemployment rate in July was down to just 3.5%—the lowest level since 1969. Average hourly wage growth was also up 5.2% year over year. In short, employers are hiring and the market for job seekers remains strong. But for employers, this translates into problems finding the skilled workers they need to fully staff their business. Continued here

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6 qualities that will get you hired, no matter the job “If you read the job ads,” Forbes columnist Liz Ryan writes, “you’d think that employers are strictly looking for people with very specific types of experience.” But “once you get to a job interview, the whole picture changes. Employers are looking for qualities in their new hires that are never listed in the job ad.” 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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How immunity-boosting food became a part of monsoon festivals in India No matter where you go in the country, you will invariably find seasonal foods and dietary practices codified into rituals and festivals. Continued here

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Want to stop endlessly scrolling on your phone? Do this If you have an iPhone, Apple’s weekly Screen Time report can be eye-opening. Did I really pick up my phone 36 times and spend 7 hours on social media? You might be tempted to blame the phone as the cause of your distraction, especially if you have notifications enabled. The root cause, however, is your relationship with technology—one that’s possible to change, says Dandapani, a Hindu priest, former monk, and author of The Power of Unwavering Focus. Continued here

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Your inability to 'quiet your mind' isn't due to lack of effort. It's the wrong goal I understood that “awareness is the greatest agent for change,” as Eckhart Tolle says. Still, the space between awareness and change felt like a disappointing delta. My awareness of my inner voice was matched by an equal awareness that I didn’t know how to quiet it. Now, I had two problems.  Continued here

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How to Learn Fast: 10 Ways to Boost Math and Language Skills Learning new things is a huge part of life -- we should always be striving to grow and learn a new skill. Whether you're learning Spanish or want to do math fast, it takes time to learn each lesson, and time is precious. So how can you make the most of your time by speeding up the learning process? Thanks to neuroscience, we now have a better understanding of how we learn and the most effective ways our brains process and hold on to information. Continued here

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An economist studied popular finance tips. Some might be leading you astray In a new study titled "Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors," the Yale financial economist James Choi rummages through 50 of the most popular books on personal finance to see how their tips square with traditional economic thinking. It's like a cage match: Finance thinkfluencers vs economists dueling over what you should do with your money. Continued here

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Why Everything Feels So Expensive Right Now Today you can expect to shell out a lot more on absolutely everything than you did a year ago as prices rise faster than they have for 40 years. Food costs are soaring, with prices in shops rising by 5.1 percent in August, or for fresh food specifically, 10.5 percent – the highest rate seen since 2008. Continued here

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You Can Stop Turning Your Lights Off to Save Money Jason Fitzpatrick is the Senior Smart Home Editor at How-To Geek. He has over a decade of experience in publishing and has authored thousands of articles at How-To Geek, Review Geek, LifeSavvy, and Lifehacker. Jason served as Lifehacker's Weekend Editor before he joined How-To Geek. Read more... Continued here

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You're being tracked through your email. Here's how to stop it. I subscribe to a lot of newsletters. I read most of them, too. But their authors wouldn’t know it because I’ve disabled the trackers that detect and tell the senders when subscribers open their emails. It’s nothing personal; I just don’t want anyone knowing what I read, when, how many times I read it, the device I read it on, and even where I was when I read it. How about you? Continued here

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It's settled: 6.1 inches is the ideal smartphone screen size I come to you today with good and bad news. The bad news is that small phones are dead. Apple is all but certainly killing off the iPhone Mini this year, and the smallest Android phone I’ve used all year is the 5.9-inch Asus Zenfone 9 — quite a bit larger than the 5.4-inch Mini. But that’s what passes for “small” now. Continued here

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Revealed: US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data Multiple branches of the U.S. military have bought access to a powerful internet monitoring tool that claims to cover over 90 percent of the world’s internet traffic, and which in some cases provides access to people’s email data, browsing history, and other information such as their sensitive internet cookies, according to contracting data and other documents reviewed by Motherboard.  Continued here

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Astronomers Are Freaking Out Over Bizarre Rectangle-Shaped Rings in Space In the eight months since the James Webb Space Telescope launched on its mission to explore the earliest formations of our universe, it’s sent back mind-blowing photographs of mysterious structures, ancient galaxies and dying stars. The JWST has 100 times the observational power of Hubble, and sometimes the images it captures outpace even our own understanding of space. Continued here

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China Discovers Stunning Crystal on the Moon, Nuclear Fusion Fuel for Limitless Energy The crystal is part of a batch of lunar samples collected by China’s Chang’e-5 mission, which landed on the Moon in 2020, loaded up with about four pounds of rocks, and delivered them to Earth days later. After carefully sifting through the samples—which are the first Moon rocks returned to Earth since 1976—scientists at the Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology spotted a single crystal particle, with a diameter smaller than the width of a human hair. Continued here

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Are teachers leaving the classroom en masse? Kansas is facing what has been called the most severe teacher shortage it has ever had: about 1,400 teaching jobs are unfilled. In Florida, there are about 8,000 teacher vacancies, up from 5,000 at the start of school last year. The shortage is reportedly also dire in other states, including Nevada, California, Illinois, Arizona, and Missouri. Some experts say that even school districts that don’t usually face shortages are struggling with vacancies, and it’s hard to hire teachers even for subjects that are typically easy to fill. Continued here

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How young people around the world are reclaiming their histories Every image tells a story. From culture to costume, dress codes to hairstyles and the nationalism we brush off as normal, symbols of shared heritage hold the power to shape the way we interpret ourselves. They tell stories of conquest and subjugation, power and resistance. When re-evaluated, they allow us to critically confront the past and our struggles for social justice, whether it’s destigmatising afro hair in professional spaces via UK campaign group the Halo Collective, or artist Hew Locke’s unpacking of Britain’s problematic past through thought-provoking portraiture. In our digital-first, image-obsessed present, it seems there are reclamations of heritage happening everywhere, every day, and at a faster and more frantic pace than ever. Symbols that were previously used to wield power over people are rehashed to assert some semblance of control over the present – and nowhere is this more prevalent than on an extremely grassroots level. Here, we head to Bolivia, Jamaica and Turkey, where local groups are reclaiming their histories in groundbreaking ways, taking matters into their own hands both online and off. Continued here

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How MLB's new rules will -- MLB has announced its most signifiant rule changes in almost half a century. Here's how they will impact play, roster building and more. Continued here

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'Everyone has screwed up' - why India has been suspended by FIFA The ban means India cannot play in any international matches and may prevent the country from hosting the U17 Women's World Cup next month Continued here

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33 Recipes To Make You Fall In Love With Dutch Ovens Have a tiny apartment kitchen? Tired of owning too many pots and pans, and want just one that can do it all? Look no further than a Dutch oven. Dutch ovens are cast-iron pots with lids that can go from the stovetop to the oven with ease, making them great for a variety of dishes. Whether you go classic cast iron (we've got tips for cleaning!) or a colorful enamel one (beloved by the Delish Test Kitchen), these pots really can’t be beat. Check out our 33 Dutch oven recipes to see how truly versatile they are. Continued here

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I'm Finally Getting Rid of My Instant Pot, and I'm Not the Only One Four years and maybe a dozen total uses later, I have — finally — decided to part with the thing. It turns out that the whole “set it and forget it” style chafes at my preference to taste, meddle, and stir. Plus, a cutting board and an eight-quart Instant Pot is a big ask of my counter space. So the Instant Pot lives on the very highest shelf, dusty with disuse. Continued here

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How to set an effective boundary Your parents may have taught you that “no” is a complete sentence, but actually saying it — or setting a boundary in general — can be tricky. Sometimes, you feel uncomfortable setting the boundary; sometimes, the other person hates it and has a strong reaction. But the fact remains that in your romantic relationships, at work, in your family, and in friendships, you’re going to have to set some boundaries one way or another. Continued here

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Trump-Appointed Judge Is Not Keen to Hear More about How She's Bad at Law The .css-umdwtv{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:.0625rem;text-decoration-color:#FF3A30;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:inherit;-webkit-transition:background 0.4s;transition:background 0.4s;background:linear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #d5dbe3 50%, #d5dbe3);-webkit-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}.css-umdwtv:hover{color:#000000;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;-webkit-background-position:100% 100%;background-position:100% 100%;}latest act in the foregone conclusion that is ongoing in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon down in Florida has once again smacked the gobs of actual legal minds in the general direction of Belize. From Law and Crime: Continued here

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Public transit for nine bucks a month? Germany tried it. MUNICH, Germany — Maybe you buy the 9-Euro-Ticket to travel from Saxony to Bavaria to go to the Helene Fischer concert in Munich. Maybe you buy it to go hiking, taking the train on summer weekends to villages outside Munich. Or maybe you buy it because you’re an American journalist, but also a little bit of a tourist, used to paying $2.75 to wait 15 minutes for a crowded Brooklyn Q train, like me. Continued here

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How Our Brains Decide When to Trust Trust is the enabler of global business — without it, most market transactions would be impossible. It is also a hallmark of high-performing organizations. Employees in high-trust companies are more productive, are more satisfied with their jobs, put in greater discretionary effort, are less likely to search for new jobs, and even are healthier than those working in low-trust companies. Businesses that build trust among their customers are rewarded with greater loyalty and higher sales. And negotiators who build trust with each other are more likely to find value-creating deals. Continued here

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5 Strategies for Getting More Work Done in Less Time You’ve got more to do than could possibly get done with your current work style. You’ve prioritized. You’ve planned. You’ve delegated. You’ve tried to focus. The next frontier is increasing your efficiency so that you can spend less time and still do a good job. Here are five strategies to help. Start by clarifying what’s actually needed and to what level. Then, ask yourself if there’s any work that you could reuse, and — where you can — copy, paste, and edit. To speed up your process on routine items, create a template or checklist. Having a conversation instead of writing something down can also save time. And finally, decide in advance how much time you will spend on a particular task, and stick to it. Continued here

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Broaden Your Influence by Adapting How You Listen | Nancy Duarte Choosing the right listening style can help close the gap between what a speaker needs and how a listener responds. Continued here

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'Gifs are cringe': how Giphy's multimillion-dollar business fell out of fashion Its valuation is down by $200m from its peak in 2016 and, more importantly, its core offering shows signs of going out of fashion. "There are indications of an overall decline in gif use," the company said in its filing, "due to a general waning of user and content partner interest in gifs. Continued here

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Beer sales are tanking. So Molson is investing $60 million in its Toronto plant to try something different In 2020, the latest year for which Statistics Canada data is available, that number stood at 69.6 litres. As beer has fallen, wine has been on the rise. In the past few years, demand for “ready to drink” beverages, from hard lemonade to alcoholic kombucha and hard seltzers, has been soaring. Continued here

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To fix America's inflation problem, the Federal Reserve must go big Over the summer a wild hope took hold among investors. Inflation seemed to be falling gently even as America’s economy stayed in rude health. Perhaps the worst bout of inflation since the 1980s would be easily quelled, without interest rates rising much further or much economic pain. Now the dream has been dashed. Figures published on September 13th show that the pace of underlying inflation in August was fast and furious. Stockmarkets fell by the most since the early months of the pandemic; the price of junk bonds dropped; and short-term Treasury yields spiked. America still has an inflation problem. To fix it, the Federal Reserve must go big. Continued here

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Wind Turbine Blades Can't Be Recycled, So They're Piling Up in Landfills A wind turbine's blades can be longer than a Boeing 747 wing, so at the end of their lifespan they can't just be hauled away. First, you need to saw through the lissome fiberglass using a diamond-encrusted industrial saw to create three pieces small enough to be strapped to a tractor-trailer. Continued here

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Are DSLR Cameras Going Extinct? Last December, Canon announced that they would be shuttering development and production of the DSLR sometime in the next few years. “The market needs are acceleratingly shifting to mirrorless cameras,” Canon’s CEO and Chairman Fujio Mitarai explained in an interview. As the largest producer of digital cameras, Canon’s announcement sent a shockwave through the industry—and this July, rumors began to swirl that Nikon would soon be following Canon’s lead, and similarly discontinuing their DSLRs.  Continued here

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31-year-old who quit her job and makes $15,000 a month recording voiceovers: I only work '3 to 5 hours per day' There's a reason Everdeen keeps short, strict hours: burnout. She says she's learned to set hard boundaries to avoid exhaustion and complacency. Those symptoms rear their heads in strange ways: Years ago, as a news producer at MSNBC, she found herself regularly staying at the office hours past her shift, even after her work was done. Continued here

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Autofocus: The Productivity System That Treats Your To-Do List Like a River The problem, Burkeman observes, is that the to-do list is a bucket that never entirely empties. As we clear some tasks out, others are added in. It’s like the Magic Beer Floating Faucet Fountain that they used to sell at Spencer’s back in 1990, along with black lights and bags of reindeer poop.  Continued here

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Is the World Ready for Extremely Effective Weight-Loss Drugs? Earlier this summer, Forrest Smith got some promising news. The Denver-based petroleum engineer, who works for the National Park Service, had read reports on a new diabetes medication called tirzepatide. Clinical trials had confirmed a potent side effect: Tirzepatide users could shed up to 20 percent of their body weight. Smith told me he spent his childhood cast as “the fat kid in school,” and his adulthood locked in a cycle of losing pounds and regaining them. Though he is not diabetic, he was aware that some doctors were prescribing the drug for weight loss and, feeling like he had nothing to lose, sought one out for treatment. He took his first weekly injection in July, and says it was like “a switch was flipped overnight.” Food cravings disappeared. When watching skinny friends eat, he used to wonder, “How do you not eat that entire plate of cookies in front of you?” That all changed. “One cookie? Totally doable.” Continued here

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How immunity-boosting food became a part of monsoon festivals in India No matter where you go in the country, you will invariably find seasonal foods and dietary practices codified into rituals and festivals. Continued here

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How to Exercise to Cut Your Age-Related Fitness Decline in Half There are tons of reasons why you might love being on your bike: to get from point A to point B, to chase that PR, or simply just to stay in shape. Regardless of your motivation, the physical benefits of cycling—among other forms of exercise—can stay with you for longer than you might expect, according to research from the journal Frontiers in Physiology. Continued here

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Uh, My Toddler's Solution to the "Trolley Problem" Is Totally Freaking Me Out Parenting advice on social outcasts, estranged kids, and philosophical frights. Continued here

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9 habits linked to a longer, happier life "There's a lot of evidence about the things we can do proactively that can improve our longevity as well as the quality," said Wen, an emergency physician and visiting professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. Continued here

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This Brilliant Trick Can Un-Shrink Your Sweaters Maybe your spouse did laundry and put something in the dryer that wasn’t supposed to go, or you simply got distracted and didn’t hear the timer go off. Accidents happen. If your favorite cashmere ends up looking like it belongs on your 6-year-old niece, remain calm. There is a solution, and it’s fairly simple. Continued here

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Escape the perfectionist trap with the Japanese philosophy of "wabi sabi" The thing is, I know I shouldn’t be this way. The pursuit of the perfect is not synonymous with the pursuit of excellence or even the worthwhile, and whether that drive is self-motivated or foisted on us by a boss, parent, or partner, its cost far outweighs the goal. Research has shown the potential fallout of perfectionism: anxiety, depression, social aversion, lower life satisfaction, reduced self-worth, and difficulties emotionally self-regulating. Continued here

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11 Ancient Solutions for Modern Malaise “All men, brother Gallio, wish to live happily,” wrote the Roman philosopher and statesman Lucius Annaeus Seneca to his brother around A.D. 58, “but are dull at perceiving exactly what it is that makes life happy.” Seneca may very well have based that assessment on himself. He was a happiness expert, writing throughout his life about the ancient concept of eudaemonia, which roughly means “living in agreement with nature,” or perhaps, in today’s language, “inner peace.” Yet his life was anything but peaceful. Continued here

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Does 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' Pay for Everyone's Mortgages? It doesn't get better than hearing the shouts of "Move that bus!" as a deserving family tearfully lays eyes on their remodeled house for the first time. But this eternal good deed does beget some practical questions: Does Extreme Makeover: Home Edition pay for the mortgages? And what about the increased taxes and utility costs that have sometimes contributed to foreclosures in the past? Continued here

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Why Everything Feels So Expensive Right Now Today you can expect to shell out a lot more on absolutely everything than you did a year ago as prices rise faster than they have for 40 years. Food costs are soaring, with prices in shops rising by 5.1 percent in August, or for fresh food specifically, 10.5 percent – the highest rate seen since 2008. Continued here

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You Can Stop Turning Your Lights Off to Save Money Jason Fitzpatrick is the Senior Smart Home Editor at How-To Geek. He has over a decade of experience in publishing and has authored thousands of articles at How-To Geek, Review Geek, LifeSavvy, and Lifehacker. Jason served as Lifehacker's Weekend Editor before he joined How-To Geek. Read more... Continued here

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How India runs on WhatsApp WhatsApp’s simple design helped make it a hit internationally, especially in countries where most people don’t have iPhones to use iMessage or affordable cell phone plans to send SMS messages. When Meta bought WhatsApp eight years ago in a record $19 billion cash and stock deal, it was considered a risky bet. Today, even though it doesn’t contribute much to Meta’s bottom line, WhatsApp is arguably the company’s most essential international product. Continued here

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The Best New Widgets for Your iPhone Lock Screen With iOS 14, Apple brought widgets to your iPhone’s Home Screen—with iOS 16, Apple wants to do the same with your Lock Screen. With this update, you can create multiple Lock Screens that you can cycle through at any time, and each Lock Screen can hold up to five different widgets: There’s a grid of four squares below the time, and a text-based widget at the top. To check out your options, press and hold the Lock Screen, tap the “Customize” button, then tap a widget area for a list of all available widgets. Continued here

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Sniffing Out the Science of Smelling Last winter, Andreas Keller decided the time was right to branch out from his day job as a neuroscientist and launch a new art gallery. Not just any gallery, but the country’s first and only commercial space devoted entirely to smell-based art. He rented a defunct barbershop in New York City’s Chinatown and teamed up with an artist named M Dougherty for his inaugural show in February of 2021, drilling a hole in the exterior wall to pipe a piney perfume called “Forest Bath” to the street outside. The fresh evergreen mingled with steamed dumplings and ripe dumpsters and the smoldering papers that Keller’s Chinese neighbors sometimes burned as an offering to their ancestors. Continued here

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The controversial embryo tests that promise a better baby Some companies offer tests that rank embryos based on their risk of developing complex diseases such as schizophrenia or heart disease. Are they accurate — or ethical? Continued here

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What Do Dogs Know About Us? Oh wait, no; we don’t have a deal. She just does that. It is vexing and charming at once. Just at the moment of nose-attack I can smell the sleep collected on her breath and fur. It mingles with the odor of the other dogs in the room and is beginning to smell, to me, like home. It has been six months since she left her natal litter of 10 siblings and joined our family of three humans, two dogs, and one cat. And it has been a few months since she went from being a very young puppy to an adolescent, her brain trailing her body in development. Recently, she has become more interested in contact of any sort with us. She minds where we are, beating a hasty path after us if we rise from a chair to leave the room, sometimes licking our ankles as we go. She lies next to me on the couch, her body contorted to maximize body-to-body contact. Continued here

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What can we expect from the new Carolean age? If the second Elizabethan era drew to a close on the 8 September, the second Carol or Carolean age began on Saturday 10 September with the accession of Charles III. Prior to that we – or more accurately our ancestors – have lived through Georgian, Edwardian and Victorian times to name but a few of the various ‘ages’ in England, branded by the sovereign at the time. Continued here