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What types of mortgages are available? Four kinds of mortgages are common today: conventional, jumbo, government-backed, and adjustable rate. Conventional…
Month: September 2024
The excitement of moving day!
Moving day tip sheet It’s moving day! A lot of work ahead, but so much fun to have a brand-new space, a new neighborhood, be closer to work or family, and…
How to connect
What’s your go-to method to connect with people? Texting? It is certainly low-risk, easy to do, and you don’t impose on the other person’s time. But it is…
Old friends: A rhyme with a message
As kids, many of us learned this little ditty: Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold. It’s a paraphrase of a 19th century…
Friendships make an impact on happiness
There’s a loneliness crisis. About 20 to 30 percent of the population say they are lonely and friendless. And those are just the ones who have…
Startup eyes space-age cancer treatment
In the future, cancer treatment might come from outer space. Seriously. Immunotherapy drugs, which throw the body’s immune system into overdrive so it can…
Don’t you forget about me: AI can now
Don’t you forget about me: AI can now “remember” conversations If you’re sick of repeating yourself all the time when you use ChatGPT, then you might want…
Data breaches affect more than a billion people this year — so far
The RockYou2024 data breach appears to be the largest-ever compilation of stolen passwords — about ten billion of them, according to Cybernews. But don’t…
In Japan, a backpack is not just a backpack
Japanese elementary school students aren’t required to carry the randoseru — a boxy flap-closure backpack that can nearly swallow the slight frames of…
Why does that candidate want your puny dollar?
At every dramatic turn during this presidential election cycle, you may have received floods of text and email messages asking you to chip in $3 here or…