Inexpensive: DIY: These upgrades may boost your selling price
When you’re trying to sell a house, looks matter almost as much as a competitive price. But you don’t necessarily have to spend big to give your interior…
Month: April 2024
Ask the Expert: Preapprovals
Home prices are still high in my area. Should I apply for a preapproval that’s more than I think I need? The fundamental rule of home buying still applies…
7 tips for delivering bad news to customers
In a perfect world, nobody would ever need to deliver bad news to a customer or client. But that’s not the world we live in, and sometimes we have to tell…
Study history to understand the present
Do you want to understand how others live, or solve puzzles and chase down mysteries? Know more about how our world works and why? Become a better and…
How to be a good dinner guest
During America’s Gilded Age, a formal dinner setting might include as many as 24 pieces per person, and choosing the wrong fork for the cheese course was…
The ocean garbage patch is stuffed with plastic — but also life
Earth Day 2024: Planet v. Plastic The ocean garbage patch is stuffed with plastic — but also life The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a floating mass of…
Report: Meta ignored internal warnings that new tools could fuel child exploitation
A Wall Street Journal investigation has found that teams at Meta (which owns Facebook and Instagram) knew that an Instagram subscription program might aid…
Researchers make artificial limb that can feel
When Luke Skywalker famously got his hand lopped off, it wasn’t a big deal because the Jedi simply got a prosthetic hand and continued swinging his…
The dragon rules the zodiac
The Chinese zodiac proclaims 2024 to be one of the most prosperous and its all due to one mystical creature with the head of a camel, the neck of a snake…
These sounds have vanished
If you are of a certain age, you can close your eyes and hear the sound of a rotary dial phone. It’s one of the common sounds of the beginning of the 20th…