This article is part of the Future of Work briefing, a weekly email with stories, interviews, trends and links about how work, workplaces and workforces are changing. Sign up here.For many, one silver lining of the pandemic has been the shift towards working from home, putting an end to the daily trauma of traffic jams, long drives…
For over a year we’ve all been facing an extremely stressful situation. Many conditions are exacerbated by stress, and psoriasis is no exception. In fact, it’s likely that many people were diagnosed with psoriasis for the first time during the pandemic. To make things worse, dealing with psoriasis can in turn increase stress, especially when…
How do we define a selfish person?Well! there can be various definitions and explanations for this one term. Despite that I will define selfish people as those individuals who are entirely concerned about their selves.Therefore, in the light of this definition, an individual who considers his own interests, his own needs without thinking about other…
I have been told many stories by people who found it hard to let go of the everyday objects left behind by their loved ones after death. A woman whose mother had, just before she died, bought a large tub of malted milk drink powder called Horlicks, confided, “I could not throw this away. It…
Antoine Suggs has been charged with four counts of second-degree murder after an evening at St. Paul bar turned into a quadruple homicideUPDATE: 9.21.21 9:10 p.m. Suspect Antoine Suggs, who was reportedly casually dating Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley, one of four people found shot to death in an SUV abandoned in Sheridan, Wisconsin, reportedly told his…
We might not be able to eat at all of our favorite restaurants right now, but that doesn’t keep us from dreaming about them. These days the BA staff spends a lot of time scrolling Instagram longingly while recounting memories of epic meals past and Slacking each other about where we’re going to travel when…
The newly released Netflix movie Kate has everything. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, portraying a badass assassin. A neon-soaked cityscape that looks like something out of a video game. Plus the Yakuza, Woody Harrelson, and almost two hours of pretty much non-stop, blood-soaked, guns-blazing action. I would have happily gone to see a movie like this in…
Akon is facing backlash for comments made in the wake of his friend Michael K. Williams’ death. While mourning “The Wire” star, who was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment on Monday, Akon reflected on their close friendship. “He was actually a really good friend, amazing person, super funny, super talented,” the “I Wanna Love…
Videos of cable cars swaying in the air, with passengers trapped inside, have emerged after Mexico was hit by a powerful earthquake.Mexico’s National Seismological Service said the 7.1-magnitude quake struck around 6.8 miles from the resort of Acapulco, in Guerrero state, at about 1:47 a.m. on Wednesday.The U.S. Geological Survey lists the quake’s magnitude as…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians have noted that certain patients are at especially high risk of developing severe illness or dying from coronavirus infection. Type 2 diabetes—a condition affecting more than 10 percent of the U.S. population— is one of the main risk factors for severe COVID-19 illness. New research from…