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A brief guide to affording eldercare for aging parents
Caregiving for elderly parents is costly, whether you’re spending time or money. Here’s how to make the math work for your family budget. As an adult, you’ve gotten used to certain things about your parents that your childhood never prepared you for—like your mom’s affinity for pickleball or your dad’s sudden fascination with ancient alien documentaries. But the frailty that comes with aging can be the most difficult change to see in your parents. You might be tempted to ignore the signs of aging in your parents, but it’s likely that they will need some kind of eldercare in the future.
Published: 2024-10-05 11:00:00
Housing market update: More than 4 million homeowners could refinance their mortgages
The potential pool of homeowners who could refinance has quadrupled since June. Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter.
Published: 2024-10-05 11:00:00
4 things executives could learn from top freelancers
You don’t become a successful freelancer without developing expertise in navigating uncertainty, and that’s a valuable skill for any top executive. I am not a business coach. But as life in corporate America shifts, I’ve become a version of one to many of my C-suite clients who now find themselves in a career holding pattern. As the ground shifts beneath these executives, they are suddenly mighty curious about the lessons I’ve learned from four decades of navigating the kind of uncertainty freelancers deal with all the time.
Published: 2024-10-05 11:00:00
This slick tool monitors any web page for updates
Set up an alert once with Visualping, and never miss an important update again. Email newsletters are great. When there’s an update, it comes straight to your inbox. You don’t have to check a web page over and over again.
Published: 2024-10-05 10:00:00
This German startup uses hops to reduce waste from beer and construction
HopfON seeks to reduce the construction industry’s waste, and its planet-warming emissions, by limiting the need for finite resources through hops-made products. Two students in Munich, sipping beers on their dormitory couch in 2022, chatted about a recent lecture describing the use of banana fibers in Colombia to make sustainable building materials.
Published: 2024-10-05 10:00:00
Why the UAW is threatening strikes against Stellantis again
Stellantis denies breaking the terms of the labor contract it signed with the United Auto Workers union only a year ago. The United Auto Workers is taking steps toward holding strikes that could interfere with some of Stellantis’s operations in the United States. Stellantis, formed in 2021 through a merger, is the international automaker of Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep, and other vehicles.
Published: 2024-10-05 09:30:00
Famed designer Stefan Sagmeister shares 35 years’ worth of his never-before-seen sketchbooks
Sagmeister took us inside three decades of his private sketchbooks and revealed what they say about his creative process. Stefan Sagmeister is one of the most famous designers in the world, known for projects ranging from album covers for the Rolling Stones and David Byrne to branding for Levis and BMW to his experimental documentary on happiness. With an emphasis on an artist’s hand, Sagmeister cut through a century of strict geometries to define the visual style of the ’90s in ever-evolving work continuing today.
Published: 2024-10-05 09:30:00
WhatsApp vs. Apple Messages: Which is the better messaging app in 2024?
We’ll explore this, based on five criteria: user interface, compatibility, useful features, fun factor, and privacy & security. Messaging apps are one of the most frequently used apps on our phones. There’s probably not a day that goes by when most people don’t hear a ding alerting them to a new text. There’s also no shortage of messaging apps. But when it comes to the juggernauts, there are two: Meta’s WhatsApp and Apple’s Messages, the latter of which just got a big update in iOS 18.
Published: 2024-10-05 09:00:00
Why this tiny tribe’s $600M casino in California’s wine country may not happen
Governor Gavin Newsom and local politicians oppose the project along with the Dry Creek Band of Pomo Indians, who operate the nearby River Rock Casino. For decades a small, landless tribe in Northern California has been on a mission to get land, open a casino, and tap into the gaming market enjoyed by so many other tribes that earn millions of dollars annually.
Published: 2024-10-05 09:00:00
How to solve complex, real-world problems using applied math
Applied mathematicians have to find a balance between models that are realistic enough to be useful and simple enough to be implemented. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play in solving complex problems such as curing a disease?
Published: 2024-10-05 09:00:00
LGBTQ+ youth see content creators—and even AI chatbots—as social lifelines, survey finds
Social media and parasocial relationships can offer a sense of connection, according to a new survey of LGBTQ+ youth. Social media and the internet are getting the blame for much of the youth mental health crisis, but for LGBTQ+ youth they may provide an important source of social connection.
Published: 2024-10-05 09:00:00
3 reasons people don’t do what you want (and how to get them to)
When employees don’t do what you want them to, it comes down to one or more of these three things that you, as the leader, are doing wrong. Many leaders are perplexed when their people don’t do what they want. They usually blame it on the employee. But that is not always the case. When employees don’t do what you want, it comes down to one or more of these three things that you as the leader are doing wrong.
Published: 2024-10-05 09:00:00
10 years in, the Try Guys expand their universe with a new streaming platform
With 2nd Try, Zach Kornfeld and Keith Habersberger want to engage longtime viewers and court a wider audience. Ten years ago, four Buzzfeed staffers took the site’s pivot to video as an opportunity to film themselves trying things they’d never done before. With a video of them trying on women’s underwear that went viral, the Try Guys were born.
Published: 2024-10-05 09:00:00
How chemicals spread after the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment—and what to do for future diasters
One of the most important lessons is for communities to demand an exposure pathway diagram immediately after a chemical incident occurs. On February 3, 2023, a train carrying chemicals jumped the tracks in East Palestine, Ohio, rupturing railcars filled with hazardous materials and fueling chemical fires at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
Published: 2024-10-05 08:30:00
Congress wants to force carmakers to keep AM radio, but it needs to rebuild the public’s trust
The radio industry has been lobbying for legislation that would force carmakers to install AM radios as a matter of public interest. A lament about the demise of AM radio has been rising in the halls of Congress.
Published: 2024-10-05 08:00:00
‘Discover the rabbit hole’: Conspiracy theories about Hurricane Helene are all over TikTok
One prominent theory plays off the idea that the path of destruction is hitting Republican areas hardest. Conspiracy theories have a habit of spiking following natural disasters, and Hurricane Helene is no exception. As the death toll topped 200 on Friday morning, the conspiracy theorists are out in full force spreading misinformation about everything from voter manipulation to a geoengineered industrial land grab.
Published: 2024-10-04 20:46:18
Meta unveils Movie Gen, an AI model that can generate video with sound
Videos created by Movie Gen can be up to 16 seconds long, while audio can be up to 45 seconds long, Meta said. Facebook owner Meta announced on Friday it had built a new AI model called Movie Gen that can create realistic-seeming video and audio clips in response to user prompts, claiming it can rival tools from leading media generation startups like OpenAI and ElevenLabs.
Published: 2024-10-04 20:30:00
Elon Musk will attend Trump’s Pennsylvania rally at site of first assassination attempt
The former president has said that if reelected, he would appoint Musk to lead a government efficiency commission. Elon Musk is set to attend Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, marking an even deeper show of the billionaire’s support for the former president and his shift to the right.
Published: 2024-10-04 20:20:29
Aurora borealis watch: Where to see the northern lights this weekend and why you should bring a phone
Thanks to a geomagnetic storm, the aurora could be visible over many states from the Midwest to Oregon, with prime viewing forecast for late Saturday into Sunday. Good news: The northern lights, or aurora borealis, could be visible this weekend in many parts across the country.
Published: 2024-10-04 20:03:03
Supreme Court to determine the bar for bias lawsuits from white, straight workers
A Supreme Court ruling in favor of Ames could provide a boost to the growing number of lawsuits by white and straight workers claiming they were discriminated against under company DEI policies. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether it should be more difficult for workers from “majority backgrounds,” such as white or heterosexual people, to prove workplace discrimination claims.
Published: 2024-10-04 20:00:00