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For a recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, a research team from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs examined the records of more than 150,000 U.S. veterans and found an increased risk of all types of heart disease in the year following a COVID infection. Though the majority of the records analyzed belonged to white men, the pattern held when the health records of women and people of color were analyzed separately....

California Cryobank was another story. In addition to being proximally convenient to Alison in Los Angeles, the business is practically the Match.com of sperm, offering an almost overwhelming array of options and a guarantee that every donor has been filtered through a demanding screening process that includes a criminal background check, genetic testing, and psychological profiling. They insist their acceptance rate for donor applicants is less than one percent. There’s a six times greater chance of being admitted into Harvard....

Consider this: Slightly more than a third of respondents to a 2018 CreditCards.com poll said they’d rather have their significant others cheat on them than hide bank accounts from them. But despite the potential financial infidelity has to devastate a marriage, married couples are often reluctant to talk about their finances, instead leaving themselves open to arguments and breaches of trust. One telling example: a 2017 Experian poll found that 42 percent of formerly married couples only found out about their partner’s student loan debt after they were divorced....

The first thing you might be asking is: what exactly is net worth? It’s a fair question and unlike a lot of financial jargon, it’s a fairly easy concept to understand. Net worth is determined by taking a person or family’s assets (money they have in the bank and property they own) minus outstanding debts they owe. The Federal Reserve released its Survey of Consumer Finances from 2019, which showed the median and average net worth of heads of households from different age groups....

The MAX Motor Dreams is a handsome, wood-accented smart bassinet that simulates a nighttime car ride. While speakers play low engine sounds, blinking LEDs recreate the glow of street lights, and the base gently vibrates and rolls to imitate the soft motion of the car. “There are different cots on the market that make sound or movements,” says Paulo Areas, Creative Director at Ford’s marketing agency, Ogilvy Spain. “But for us, making a strong connection between the cot and the car was key: our design is made to transfer your preferred car ride to the crib....

Despite the radical proliferation of technology in the century and a half since Thoreau wrote those words, it’s never been easier to get out of town for a bit of deliberate living. And it’s getting easier. A company called Getaway has been quietly creating Walden-like escapes outside of New York City or Boston. These small homes are built in part for families and entirely for quality time. They’ve made it possible to pull a Thoreau with minimal planning....

As expected, now that the ascendant Delta variant means cases are spiking, those same governors are feeling pressure to reverse their tying of local officials’ hands, who now can’t make new rules to protect their students against the highly transmissible variant if they wanted to. One governor, Arkansas’ Asa Hutchinson, has even expressed his regret at turning a basic, proven public health measure into a culture war issue by not allowing local districts to set their own rules....

GoTenna works by pairing to a smartphone via Bluetooth, using the accompanying iOS/Android app. The other person, who also has a goTenna (because luckily they’re sold in pairs) can then get messages from you. It has a decent range, from half a mile to 25 miles. After playing with a demo version — which was basically just tooling around with it for a bit in a relatively hilly/wooded residential area devoid of tall buildings — it got a range of about 1....

According to Bloomberg, citing data from the S&P index, housing prices dropped for the third straight month in September. The data, released on Nov. 29, found that the price of homes dropped by 2.3% between August and September, going from a 12.9% annual price gain to 10.6%. “Prices declined in every city in September, with a median change of -1.2 percent,” Bankrate explains. “Year-over-year gains, while still well above their historical medians, peaked roughly six months ago and have decelerated since then....

Doepke and Zilibotti suggest that the way we interact with our kids can be attributed to our perception of how important education is to economic success. They suggest that parenting styles have changed in America not only because of the way Americans feel about their roles as parents has changed, but because economic stratification has incentivized a hyper-competitive and overbearing approach. The theory goes a long way to explaining how intensive parenting has become increasingly important to middle-class parents....

“It takes the strongest man in the world to do a woman’s job.” That was my pitch to Arnold Schwarzenegger as he sat having breakfast at Patrick’s Roadhouse on Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica with his mother. He looked up at me and said, “What is that job?” I answered, “Having a baby!” Without missing a beat, he stood up from his chair, distended his stomach, and replied, “I am the man for the job....

Holzhauer holds the top 10 single-day record totals and won $2,462,216 over 33 appearances on the show. He could’ve won more, but he used Final Jeopardy to get final scores that referenced important dates in his life, such as his wedding anniversary and his daughter’s birthday. He’s also left notes for loved ones under his written wager. “Since I could have bet more on Final Jeopardy,” he told the Washington Post....

It might be surprising to hear that Harry is 38 years old. The books came out in the late 90’s, after all, and so many assume that Harry was around 12 in the year 2000, meaning he would most likely be born in 1990. However, the books aren’t actually set in the late 90’s; they were set in the early 90’s and Harry’s birthday in the books is July 31, 1980....

It’s a realistic concern, according to Hayley Christian of the School of Population and Global Health in Australia. Christian recently concluded an as-yet unpublished study on family dogs and her findings are in line with previous work indicating that children stand to gain from growing up around canine companions. “We simply looked at the kids with a dog, and those that did not have a dog. Even in a very young age group, those with a dog were more physically active,” Christian told Fatherly....

Then, a few months ago, I found an old Yuba Mundo Classic bike on Craigslist. I had been in the market for a family bike for a while. There are a bunch of options, some are really good. Bike Friday’s Haul-A-Day and Surly Big Dummy were among the front-runners. Of course, if I could have, I would have bought a bucket bike like the Danish Christiania bike but if that were the case, I might as well have bought a car....

In a video posted to his personal channel, Rober shows off his process for figuring out the defogging method. To test out his windshield-defogging hypothesis, Rober puts his skills to work by utilizing the scientific method. First, he created a consistent environment that caused his windshield to be equally blurred for 10 days, so he could test 10 different methods. After the time was up, he found one technique got the job done in almost half the time required by the other nine methods....

Yet, the second wave has also paved the way for a larger discussion on ways to promote mental well-being. As a researcher and a clinical psychologist, I lead a research group that investigates how emotion regulation, values and beliefs affect the development and inter-generational transmission of mental or behavioural disorders, and how these problems can impact educational achievement. The Childhood Anxiety and Regulation of Emotions (C.A.R.E.) research group has developed a school-based program as well as a parenting program, both of which teach core coping skills that have been associated with resilience....

The best winter baby clothing strategy is one that’s practiced and expert-informed so that parents feel comfortable taking little ones outside, whether that means a walk from the car to a store, some chilly sledding, or a long wait for public transportation. After all, as the Scandinavians say: There’s no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing. How to Dress a Baby in Winter The key to dressing a baby appropriately for cold weather is layering....