Month: January 2023

Even if the word science only conjures up bad memories of frog dissections and failed lab experiments, you’ll find much to enjoy in Dan Levitt’s What’s Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body’s Atoms, From the Big Bang Through Last Night’s Dinner. Levitt, a writer and producer of science and history documentaries, delivers a
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Source: Getty Images If you made a Roth individual retirement account conversion in 2022, you may have a more complicated tax return this season, experts say.  The strategy, which transfers pretax or non-deductible IRA funds to a Roth IRA for future tax-free growth, tends to be more popular during a stock market downturn because you
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From catching Covid-19 to getting caught in a blizzard, traveling can be risky business these days. But just how risky often depends on the destination — and how you define the risks. Safest cities: people’s perceptions A report published by the U.K.-based insurance company William Russell ranked the “safest cities in the world,” according to
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Is the 21st century “an epoch in which games and play are the model for how we interact with culture and each other”? Designer and professor Eric Zimmerman thinks so. At the very least, games can provide an extraordinarily useful way to learn by doing. In The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and
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You may know Shonda Rhimes from her book, Year of Yes, or you may know her from television. Indeed, whether you realize it or not, you’ve almost certainly interacted in some way with her remarkable and prolific output over the last 20 years, most of it made via her production company Shondaland, with producing partner
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In this article PG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Gillette Good News razors on display on January 28, 2005 in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Procter & Gamble reported year-over-year declines in revenue and profit on Thursday, as higher prices look to offset declining sales volumes and foreign exchange headwinds. Here’s how
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Hill House Home dropped their most romantic capsule collection yet. You probably know the brand because of the beloved Nap Dresses, and luckily for us, they’ve just added a new iteration of the piece to their lineup. The gorgeous Anjuli Nap Dress is available in Victorian Red and Ballerina
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In this article BAYRY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Logo and flags of Bayer AG are pictured outside a plant of the German pharmaceutical and chemical maker in Wuppertal, Germany. Wolfgang Rattay | Reuters Company: Bayer AG (BAYRY) Business: Bayer AG is a 55-billion euro German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company. It operates through
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Although sheepshearing typically involves a bit of frustrated grunting from shearer and shearee alike, when done right, the act can resemble a ballet: two bodies bending and swooping in sync, the whirring of wickedly sharp clipper blades their only accompaniment. As readers will learn in Peggy Orenstein’s illuminating, informative and often funny Unraveling: What I
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The Black Equity Organisation, which was launched last year, has named Wanda Wyporska as its chief executive. Wyporska, who takes up the role in March, will lead the national civil rights charity, set up to tackle systemic racism in the UK.  She joins the BEO from the Society of Genealogists, where she is chief executive.
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