we millennials have never learnt how to keep house

A couple of weeks ago, visiting my mother’s house, I picked up a book on the kitchen table – Clean and Green by former Great British Bake Off winner Nancy Birtwhistle. It was a revelation. You can make laundry detergent from conkers, says Birtwhistle. You can whiten yellowing pillow covers with citric acid and table […]

How to turn off Instagram’s new limits on political content

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Instagram has started an automatic clamp down on the amount of political content appearing in its users’ feeds, but there is a relatively quick and easy way to turn off the controls if you don’t want to keep the limitations place. As part of an initiative Instagram announced last month, the […]

How to Download Your TikTok Videos

Next, an array of sharing options pop up. You can choose the email option to send the file to yourself as an attachment, or upload it to a cloud service like Google Drive. To directly download the file, swipe to the end of the Share To options and tap More. There will be even more […]

How to Tackle Truth Decay

When then-President Donald Trump was briefed on the California wildfires in 2020, the scientific opinion he heard was that climate change was real and had contributed to the conflagrations that ended up consuming more than 4 million acres and killing 31 people. His response? “Science doesn’t know.” Millions of Americans trusted Trump, a fact he […]

How to disagree better – The Atlantic

Our writers’ perspectives on arguing and communicating in healthier ways Damir Sagolj / Reuters February 17, 2024, 8 AM ET This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every […]

Here’s how to take advantage

TikTok‘s latest financial trend, “loud budgeting,” has been gaining steam, and experts say it’s easier to accomplish than many might think. The concept encourages consumers to take control of their finances and be vocal about making money-conscious decisions, rather than modeling purchase behaviors after celebrities and their bottomless pockets. It can be as simple as […]

How to fight for Israel as the war with Hamas rages online

The hellhole that is social media is inescapable in nature. So much of a millennial’s life revolves around the trials and tribulations of an Instagram story or a Snapchat Snapstreak – and I haven’t even begun to touch on the serious struggle of learning a TikTok dance. I’m a journalist, but I know when […]

How to make the most of it

Just months ago, we were coveting Loro Piana cashmere baseball hats and $300 Smythson notebooks in the name of “quiet luxury” and justifying such expensive purchases using “girl math.” But in 2024, there’s a new idea taking hold that overtly rejects the urge to overspend and promotes speaking up about saving money — welcome to […]

How to stop doomscrolling and reclaim your brain – podcast | Science

If you’ve made a resolution to spend less time on your phone this year, help is at hand. The Guardian has launched a new newsletter, Reclaim your brain. Its co-writer and expert coach Catherine Price tells Madeleine Finlay how her own excessive phone use inspired her to investigate the science behind our relationships with our […]

How To Network Like a Pro in 2024

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Networking looks different this year than at any other time in the history of the business universe. We can engage in new business relationships with the push of a button. From joining MeetUps to engaging in social audio to live streaming, we, as entrepreneurs, can build our […]