Lifestyle

Babies go through an average of 2500-3000 diapers in their first year of life. For parents and caregivers, having a supply of safe, effective diapers on hand is an everyday necessity. Thankfully, many diaper companies now offer monthly diaper subscription services, which means that parents can sign up for regular deliveries of diapers, baby wipes and other essential baby care items. You can often change the delivery schedule if you need diapers more often or less frequently, and order emergency...

With DNA testing kits like 23andMe and Ancestry DNA, you can discover your ethnic makeup, maternal and paternal lineages, migration paths, family tree information and even your likelihood of developing certain medical conditions. This article will review the pros and cons of 23andMe and Ancestry DNA testing services to help you determine which is right for you. Ancestry DNA and Family Tree includes the standard DNA test which includes information on your ethnic background, plus you get access to Ancestry’s...

We live in an increasingly unstable world. The Doomsday Clock reads 90 seconds to midnight, dictators are misusing social media for nefarious reasons, and the extreme right has taken power in traditionally centrist countries. We’re also making the climate crisis worse, generating more freak weather events and displacing thousands of Americans yearly. The world is less peaceful today than at any time in the past decade, with more cross-border tension escalations and deepening civil war conflicts. This should concern us...

The United States experiences more natural disasters than any other country on Earth, with 43 incidents happening in 2021 alone. That’s the same number of extreme naturally-occurred events as Peru, France, Malaysia, Brazil and Vietnam combined - countries that constitute the eighth to twelfth most prone to disaster. 3.3 million Americans were displaced by natural disaster incidents in 2022, with at least 1,000 people uprooted in each US state that provided data. That said, with just shy of 3.8 million...