Stay updated with breaking news from How to and advice. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. During the Covid-19 pandemic, it s become not only acceptable but recommended that we wash our hands frequently, as per Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines. That is, any time we re in a public place and before or after touching our face. That includes after pumping gas, opening the mailbox, touching door handles it s endless, and it won’t end when everyone’s vaccinated and we start to recover from the pandemic. For people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), this isn t something to laugh about there s a vast difference between handwashing to stop the spread of a virus and handwashing that s obsessive. The Mayo Clinic defines OCD as a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions). It comes down to the level of impairment and the degree to which these obsessions and compulsions interfere with daily activities and cause distress. ....
Forbes magazine predicts that by 2025, an estimated 70 percent of the workforce will be toiling at home at least part-time. Also here to stay in varying levels are online learning, virtual social lives, and Zoom-based family celebrations. You d think after 15 months of being completely digital, it would get easier and not more complicated. Yet while I’m lucky to keep my dual jobs as an author and teacher, I’ve often been caught by surprise by the programs and platforms that have emerged during the pandemic. One recent Saturday morning, I woke up early, showered, blow-dried my hair, applied makeup, put on a dress, and met my husband wearing his nicest Armani jacket at the laptop on my desk in New York. I called my mom in Florida, who’d been the only one at her beauty shop at 8 am. We were excited to see everyone at a Michigan family friend s online bar mitzvah. While a tad technophobic, this was not our first remote religious rodeo. I’d Zoomed in for a Christian m ....
To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Over the past few years, Google (perhaps sharing younger generations’ hatred of making phone calls) has been on a tear trying to fix all the worst parts of talking on the phone. In 2018, Duplex blew Google I/O attendees away by promising to make reservations for the user with a human-sounding call system. Today, the company has added a litany of handy phone-related features for some Android phones, but a few are so buried you might have missed them. Here are all the ways Google has transformed phone calls and our take on whether you’d want to use them. ....