The former content moderator says she has developed panic attacks and depression. She also has a hard time sleeping and experiences horrific nightmares.

What are the best masks to protect you from Covid-19? We're testing surgical masks, non-medical 3 ply face masks, N95 masks, KN95 masks, KF94 masks, and cloth masks.

Carl Størmer (1872-1957) enjoyed a hobby that was very, very unusual at the time. He walked around Oslo, Norway in the 1890s with his spy camera and secretly took everyday pictures of people. The subjects in Størmer's pictures appear in their natural state. It extremely differs from the grave and strict posing trends that dominated in photography during those years.

There’s no way to confirm that a crop was grown organically. Randy Constant exploited our trust in the labels—and made a fortune.

From Windows 95 all the way to 365 Premium, Word has been my parent, my guide, and at times my lover on this journey we call life.

Swartz was brilliant and beloved. But the people who knew the gifted programmer best saw another side.

We're closing in on the end of 2021 and I'm as excited now about building websites as I've been in ~25 years.

How using multiple modalities to teach can help you remember student names -- and the activities are Common Core aligned.

@Kasparov63: We are witnessing, literally watching live, Putin commit genocide on an industrial scale in Ukraine while the most powerful military alliance in history stands aside. It's impossible not to be emotional...…

Physicists are like writers: the best of them stop producing high-quality work as they age. Why can’t physicists be more like the famous painters, who typically become, if anything, more productive and liberated from convention as they grow old? The trend is clear, if hardly explained: the greatest giants in physics have either died young or stopped meaningful work well before going to glory.

The sandwiches from Japanese convenience stores have a cult-like following among travellers - but why are they so good? We investigate...

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Sci-Hub is a "Pirate Bay" for paywalled science.

Why is it that some people get promoted, and others don’t? What is it about what they do that makes…

Is it a glitch or by design?

If the zombie apocalypse came tomorrow, these students would be ready.

Parents can cause privacy problems by oversharing their child’s pictures online.

Watch Your Hack explains how to protect yourself from hackers, in layman’s terms. Six professional hackers helped create this guide.

The issue with sharenting isn’t just that your kids might hate you for it later; it’s that companies are profiting off it.

Promising not to write about her anymore would mean shutting down a vital part of myself, which isn’t necessarily good for me or her.

A modern classic that's almost 30 years old, let's find out how it works!

I’ve been using an Elgato Stream Deck for more than a year now. It’s a USB peripheral that offers a grid of buttons with a display underneath, so each button can be labeled with an icon…

*May 26th, 2022* - Lot's of cheating happened. It's a long story with ups and downs. I tried my best to turn things around. I'm blogging about it for catharsis and personal growth.

Nokia 2720 Flip in all its glory. In my previous post, I discussed Apple’s controversial plan to add on-device photo scanning to iPhones and Macs that they announced back in August 2021. Faced with massive pressure from the public and organizations such as EFF, Apple subsequently swept most parts of the plan under the rug. However, this whole controversy rekindled my interest in dumping smartphones altogether. I had tried to switch to a feature phone a few years earlier, but that phone was a really dumb Samsung from 2010 or so with no 4G, Wi-Fi or a modern messaging app.

For Stephen Krashen, the disruption to traditional education during Covid-19 may reveal some unexpected benefits. Krashen is a leading world scholar, emeritus professor of Education at the University of Southern California, and author of several books on language acquisition. In a recent conversation, Krashen discussed how teachers and parents can harness the opportunity to teach language—including heritage languages—during remote learning. Here are his expert insights: 1. Less Traditional Instruction May Be a Good Thing Many parents and teachers are understandably anxious about remote learning, as instruction has become less traditional. However, Krashen notes, “We do not acquire language by study,

Films like Princess Mononoke, My Neighbour Totoro and Nausicaä created by Hayao Miyazaki explore the perils of neglecting nature.

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