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  • What I Wish Iโ€™d Known When My Kids Were Infants

    All my kids were introduced to peanut butter slowly after they were at least one year old. Back then, that was the guideline. You donโ€™t give your kids peanuts because they might be allergic to them. Once they were in elementary school all four loved eating peanut butter sandwiches and…

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  • Itโ€™s Now Easy to Be Stupid

    This was an interesting read that I have seen in myself and my kids. We are living in a world with the best healthcare, food, training, intelligence, etc. but what is it doing to us? We live in a world that our grandparents couldn’t fathom the things we do in…

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  • Hate Reading in iOS 26? Hereโ€™s the Fix

    To anyone that has updated to iOS 26 and loves the new look, but hates the legibility of the text. I recommend doing the following with your iPhone. On your iPhone, follow these simple steps in iOS 26:

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  • Are You Human Enough for This Game?

    New site over at neal.fun by Neal Agarwal, the creator behind many playful internet experiments. So what’s it about? Instead of the usual frustrating CAPTCHA checks you see online, this is a game where the challenge itself is the fun. You’ll solve quirky, puzzle-like captchas that feel more like a…

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  • I’m Bored

    I just watched You Need to Be Bored by Harvard Business Review and it has sparked some thoughts! When my kids tell me that they are bored, I typically respond with a Great! or that’s not a bad thing, congratulations. I tell them that I was bored once and look how I…

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  • Memory: Why We Forget and What Actually Helps

    Introduction We all experience memory lapses, from misplacing keys to walking into a room and forgetting why weโ€™re there. It can feel frustrating, even alarming. But according to neuroscientist Charan Ranganath, forgetting is the brainโ€™s default behavior and it’s entirely normal. The human brain doesnโ€™t have boundless storage, so forgetting…

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  • Robot Vacuum with an Arm

    If they eventually get these things to sort and do laundry then I might be interested. I quit using mine because my kids kept leaving paper towels and tissues in the floor, so this would actually be really helpful! The arm rises from the middle of Roborockโ€™s latest flagship bot…

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  • Roborock Robot Vacuum

    If they eventually get these things to sort and do laundry then I might be interested. I quit using mine because my kids kept leaving paper towels and tissues in the floor, so this would actually be really helpful! The arm rises from the middle of Roborockโ€™s latest flagship bot…

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  • Why Canโ€™t I Control Everything from Anywhere?

    I would love to be able to simply go to the next song or skip ten seconds in a podcast controlled by any speaker, phone, or device. This would mean you could control any Matter speaker from any Matter-supported ecosystem app. This seems like a future that seems too good…

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  • Itโ€™s NY Times fault a ball drops on New Yearโ€™s Eve

    I found this NPR article posted today about how the tradition of dropping a ball on New Yearโ€™s Eve got started. New Yorkers have celebrated New Yearโ€™s in Times Square โ€” the bustling intersection of Seventh Avenue, 42nd Street, and Broadway in Midtown Manhattan โ€” since it got its name…

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