RELATED: Delta Will Finally Let You Do This on Flights, as of March 15. In an internal memo to flight crew, United Airlines told staff that it would be getting rid of a safety precaution requesting passengers fully raise their window shades during takeoff and landing that’s been in place for the past two years, travel news outlet Paddle Your Own Kanoo reports. The company cited the fact it was the only major U....
READ THIS NEXT: USPS Is Making These Major Changes to Your Deliveries, Starting Jan. 22. The Postal Service makes regular operational adjustments. According to the agency, its services can be changed or suspended when “unusual circumstances” arise. This may include, but is not limited to, “staffing fluctuations, severe weather [and] natural disaster,” the USPS explains on its website. Over the past year, we’ve seen this play out time and again....
1 Viral Video Attracts Police Attention The video went viral on Israeli WhatsApp groups on Monday, drawing the interest of Israel’s Central Traffic Unit. Ynetnews reports the man was questioned by Jerusalem Police. The 35-year-old resident of Ein Naqquba “endangered other road users with his wrongful actions, but was also driving a car without a valid vehicle inspection test,” police said. Keep reading to see the video. 2 Charges Expected...
RELATED: If You Bought This From Walmart, Stop Using it Immediately, Authorities Warn. RELATED: For more retail news delivered straight to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter. You should also be wary of discounts, scan customer reviews, examine the product’s packaging, and know the hallmarks of the real product, according to Consumer Reports. Fake products are often sold for less than real item’s established price, have reviews that are wildly different for the same product, arrive in anonymous wrapping, or include logos that are misspelled or differ in design compared with the one pictured on the company’s official website....
Wing Hong Seto, co-director of the WHO’s Collaborating Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, set the record straight in a video interview for Bloomberg. He flatly stated that wearing the blue side out is the only way to wear a mask correctly, and referred to wearing a mask white side out as “totally wrong.” Medical masks are proven to be effective, he explained, but not if you wear them inside out....
READ THIS NEXT: Grand Canyon National Park Rangers Just Alerted Visitors to Look Out for These “Hazards”. A major winter storm made its way through California over the weekend, bringing heavy snowfall to mountain regions in the north and torrential rain to lower-lying and southern areas across the state, NPR reports. And while the severe weather was responsible for closing ski resorts and shutting down some mountain highways, it also caused severe damage to critical infrastructure in one of the state’s beloved national parks....
In a press conference on August 3, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO, announced that parents who intend to breastfeed their children shouldn’t let their COVID status deter them. “WHO recommends that mothers with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 should be encouraged the same as all other mothers to initiate or continue breastfeeding,” said Ghebreyesus. A May 2020 study published by the WHO found that, among a group of 46 mother-baby breastfeeding pairs in which all mothers had COVID-19, just 13 infants tested positive for the virus....
The average adult between the ages of 18 and 64 needs approximately seven to nine hours of sleep, according to the Cleveland Clinic. And adults over 65 years old need slightly less, around seven to eight hours of sleep. But a little extra can’t hurt. In fact, it can only help your sex life. A 2015 study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine found that women who slept an extra hour a day for two weeks were 14 percent more likely to have sex....
In an interview with Face the Nation on Jan. 3, Operation Warp Speed Chief Advisor Moncef Slaoui, PhD, said that, in an effort to get the most people vaccinated and achieve herd immunity in the shortest amount of time with the limited number of vaccines currently available, U.S. officials are in talks with both vaccine manufacturer Moderna and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to potentially give certain individuals just half the recommended dose of Moderna’s COVID vaccine....
Read on to find out what this new research discovered, and for more on what you can do to avoid the virus, Stop Doing This Immediately to Avoid the New COVID Strain, Doctors Warn.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb The research team behind the new study—headed up by lead author Prof. Pedro Magalhães de Oliveira, an expert in fluid mechanics in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge—created a mathematical model to predict how COVID spreads from an infected person in a room, taking into account the size of the space, the number of people present, the ventilation, and whether or not people were wearing masks....
RELATED: If You Do This in the Shower, Stop Immediately, Doctor Says. According to experts from the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), a branch of the USDA, 99 percent of people do not wash their hands properly. FSIS authorities warn that this presents a serious problem when it comes to food preparation, because the kitchen is known to spread dangerous germs, including Salmonella, Campylobacter, E. coli, Listeria, and more....
“By the time we get to April, we would likely have taken care of all the high priority and then the general population—the normal, healthy young man or woman, 30 years old that has no underlying conditions—can walk into a CVS or to a Walgreens and get vaccinated,” Fauci told Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a Nov. 30 interview. According to Fauci, a COVID vaccine will most likely start to be distributed in December—and that’s when the first group of high-priority persons will be getting vaccinated....
You can usually find a toilet brush sitting humbly next to most toilets in the U.S., ready to do its duty. However, experts say that this cleaning tool should be done away with. While taking inventory on household cleaning rules that need to be updated, cleaning expert Aggie MacKenzie told The Guardian that she would never even let a toilet brush inside her home. “Toilet brushes give me the heebie-jeebies,” MacKenzie said....
Developed by Harvard Global Health Institute in collaboration with CovidActNow, Covid-Local, and several other vetted sources, the map aims to assess the risk of being infected by coronavirus and provide “suppression guidance” for containing it. States are color-coded based on their risk level, which is determined by the number of new daily cases per 100,000 people. Green means there is less than one new case per 100,000 people a day and the state is “on track for containment”; yellow indicates between 1 and 9 new cases per 100,000 people and the presence of “community spread”; orange represents an “accelerated spread” and that there are 10 to 24 new cases per 100,000 a day; and red indicates the state is at a “tipping point,” with 25 or more new daily cases per 100,000 people....
This is not that. Residents of Yamaguchi, a southwestern city in Japan, are being attacked by monkeys who are “trying to snatch babies, biting and clawing at flesh, and sneaking into nursery schools,” the Associated Press reported this week. The feral primates, identified as Japanese macaques, seem particularly to target children and the elderly. “They are so smart, and they tend to sneak up and attack from behind, often grabbing at your legs,” Yamaguchi city official Masato Saito said Wednesday....
RELATED: Android Users Are Being Targeted in This New Text Message Scam. Hackers recently launched a major scamming campaign using the Google Play Store, mobile security company Zimperium reported on Sept. 29. According to the company, scammers looking to steal from Android users created more than 200 seemingly harmless apps and made them available in the Play Store. Once these scam apps were downloaded, a message would pop up on the app to notify the user that they had won a prize, prompting them to enter their phone number to claim it....
But did you know that many of the most otherworldly attractions on earth are right in your backyard? The frozen, rust-colored waves of Antelope Canyon, the towering sequoias in California, and the sculpturesque ice formations in Utah are just some of the many surreal wonders this country has to offer. Plus: you can enjoy all of them at your leisure on the freedom of the open road. So read on to discover the most magical destinations in the United States....
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RELATED: The 18 Most Secretive Celebrity Couples of the Past 40 Years. Fast Times at Ridgemont High breakout Phoebe Cates first met Sophie’s Choice actor Kevin Kline during the audition process for 1983’s The Big Chill. He got the part, she didn’t, and that might have been that. But Cates and Kline ended up in each other’s orbit again a few years later and by 1989, they were married. The couple are still going strong over 30 years since they walked down the aisle....
