The Israeli-Palestinian issue goes back nearly a century when Britain, during World War I, pledged to establish a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine under the Balfour Declaration. British troops took control of the territory from the Ottoman Empire at the end of October 1917. Large-scale Jewish migration to Palestine began, accelerated by Jewish…
Read More Israeli-Palestinian ConflictHave you ever tried to get a live person on the phone when you needed customer service? It seems almost impossible. Here is a list of numbers for cable, tech, retail, and wireless companies. Another great interactive resource is Get Human. Yet another source of information is here (you can never have too many)!
Read More How to Get a Real Person on the Line in Customer ServiceBy: Stacey Colino AARP If you’re omitting a few such personal details at the doctor’s office, you have plenty of company: As many as 81 percent of patients intentionally withhold the truth from their doctors about how often they exercise, what or how much they eat, whether they regularly take a prescription medicine as instructed or if they’ve…
Read More The Lies We Tell Our Doctorby: Heidi Schmidt, Russell Falcon, Nexstar Media Wire Posted: Aug 19, 2022 / 07:12 PM EDT Updated: Aug 19, 2022 / 07:21 PM EDT (More) Sam’s Club Sam’s Club has a deal through September 11 that will basically get you a free 1-year membership. The membership cost is $45 for one year, however, members will get…
Read More How to get ‘free’ Sam’s Club, Costco membershipsMorgan Cutolo Updated: Mar. 28, 2022 You’ve most likely had to take a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test at some point in your life. If you haven’t, here’s a quick summary: The test measures which side you lean more towards in four different areas: Extroversion vs. Introversion, Sensing vs. Intuition, Thinking vs. Feeling, and Judging vs. Perceiving. The Myers-Briggs personality types combine…
Read More This Is the Rarest Personality Type in the WorldBrooke Leigh Howard Updated Aug. 20, 2022 3:54AM ET / Published Aug. 19, 2022 1:07PM ET It was supposed to be a momentous image: The first Black woman on the nation’s highest court, captured in a historic shoot for one of the world’s most distinguished publications. But the end product of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s…
Read More Where Did Vogue Go So Wrong With Its ‘Historic’ Ketanji Brown Jackson Pic?Welcome to the world’s most awesomely awful places Turkmenistan’s Door to Hell is a giant fire-filled pit in the middle of a barren desert—and it isn’t the only earthly destination that’s been compared to the underworld. Take Italy’s Phlegrean Fields, where “the ground moves, the earth shakes, and scalding, stinking steam rises from hissing fissures.”…
Read More Awesomely Awful PlacesAs the heart stops and we die, the brain is flatlined and nonfunctional. However, using brain electrical monitoring, there is growing evidence that in this state (as people pass away), there are markers of activity (beta, delta, and sometimes gamma waves) that emerge for a very short period. These are ordinarily found when people are having…
Read More Your Brain at the Moment of DeathFowles is a four-time defensive player of the year, a seven-time All-Star, a two-time WNBA champion, the league’s all-time leading rebounder and a member of the 25th-anniversary team. At the end of the 2022 season, Fowles will retire, and the game will say goodbye to one of the best centers in women’s basketball history. (More)…
Read More WNBA will lose one of its pillars when Sylvia Fowles retires after 2022 seasonLast summer, Risa F. Isard, a research fellow with the Laboratory of Inclusion and Diversity in Sport at the University of Massachusetts, was scrolling through Twitter when a thread by WNBA fan Michael McManus (@getdisdance) caught her eye. The thread was about the media’s centering of 2020 No. 1 overall draft pick Sabrina Ionescu (SI)…
Read More Report: White WNBA players received twice as much coverage as Black players in 2020 season