CCR versus CPR: Context matters
Cardiocerebral resuscitation (CCR) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) are both emergency procedures aimed at saving lives during cardiac arrest, but…
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What to do when your car breaks down Standing on the highway by a disabled car can be a fatal mistake. In one case, two Indiana women were surveying the…
How to find a treasure at a flea market or yard sale
It’s unlikely that you will find a million-dollar painting at the flea market. But at Sotheby’s, the famous auction house, appraisers say about 5 percent…
Factors that can raise car insurance premiums
Your age, your marital status, and even where you live can affect the cost of car insurance, but there are other more obscure factors too. Most people…
Treasury to eliminate most paper checks
As check fraud and mail theft become more common, the U.S. Treasury plans to phase out paper checks for things like tax refunds and Social Security…
Understanding compound interest
Just out of college? The best thing you can do for your retirement is to save money every month and keep doing that for the next 40 years. Time and…
What is a paraprosdokian?
A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or…
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Churches adopt QR codes In the emerging cashless society, churches have gone high tech for collections, especially following the pandemic, Rather than…
Trashy birds make use of human habits
The Eurasion coot has been nesting in Amsterdam since the 1980s, and everyone has noticed that the usual leaves and reeds it uses for nests has been…
tiny park in Japan
When bigger isn’t better In an era of the biggest, fastest, best, two parks aim to be the smallest. In Nagaizumi, Japan, just an hour from Tokyo, the…