Homeshare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeshare
Homeshare (also called sharehome) is the exchange of housing for help in the home. A householder, typically an older person with a spare room, offers free or low-cost accommodation to another person in exchange for an agreed level of support. The support may include companionship, shopping, household tasks, gardening, care of pets and, increasingly, help to use the computer. Homeshare thus provides a solution to the needs of two groups of people - those in need of affordable housing, often younger people, and those in need of some support to live at home, usually older people. Homeshare programmes, many run by voluntary bodies, have taken root in at least thirteen countries worldwide, some of them with public funding.
5 Unexpected Things That Seem to Lower Dementia Risk
https://gizmodo.com/5-unexpected-things-that-seem-to-lower-dementia-risk-1848185368
In the way of all science reporting, be careful of correlation vs. causation.
Time for businesses to humanize — or die
https://theweek.com/feature/opinion/1006947/time-for-businesses-to-humanize-or-die
"Make your companies places where people actually want to work or be out-competed by somebody who can."
If bosses want workers, they have to actually try
https://theweek.com/business/1006446/if-bosses-want-workers-they-have-to-actually-try
“Some workers took early retirement when they got laid off last year; some parents can't find childcare at a reasonable price, so they are staying home; some workers saved up money during quarantine and would rather not work for the moment; and a great many workers are simply dead.”
Date Night Questions
https://www.datenightquestions.com/
Designer/developer duo Amanda and Hunter Loftis created a free deck of question cards to ask friends or significant others. The questions spark conversation (What did you want to be when you grew up? What's the worst date you've ever been on?) and the site's visually appealing design is the icing on the cake. Choose between the "for friends" deck ("funny, introspective, light") or the "for lovers" deck ("romantic, flirty, deep").
Gas-Powered Gardening Equipment
"Pound for pound, gallon for gallon, hour-for-hour, the two-stroke gas powered engines in leaf blowers and similar equipment are vastly the dirtiest and most polluting kind of machinery still in legal use," James Fallows writes.
"According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the two-stroke leaf blowers and similar equipment in the state produce more ozone pollution than all of California's tens of millions of cars, combined." How can such little engines do so much damage? It's all about technological progress, and the lack of it: Over the past 50 years, gasoline engines for trucks and automobiles have become so much more efficient that they have reduced most of their damaging emissions-per-mile by at least 95 percent... Two-stroke engines, by contrast, are based on long-obsolete technology that inefficiently burns a slosh of oil and gasoline, and pumps out much of the unburned fuel as toxic aerosols... They're the basis of noisy, dirty scooters and tuk-tuks in places like Jakarta, Hanoi, Manila, and Bangkok, where they're being phased out as too polluting.
Using a two-stroke engine is like heating your house with an open pit fire in the living room — and chopping down your trees to keep it going, and trying to whoosh away the fetid black smoke before your children are poisoned by it. But these machines persist in American landscaping because they are cheap. And because — to be brutally honest — the people paying the greatest price in much of suburban American are the hired lawn-crew workers...
Fallows points out America's Environmental Protection Agency concluded the engines expose their operators to unusually high levels of carcinogens include benzene and other dangerous substances. And "The noise produced by two-stroke engines really is different from other sounds. New acoustic research shows that its distinctive low-frequency noise penetrates vastly further than other machine-generated sound waves. It goes through solid walls.
John Oliver says "Yeah" after most of the videos shown on his show
Is it a super bad thing? No. Can I stop noticing it? Also no.
Do You Sometimes Have Terrible Thoughts? Blame the 'Call of the Void.'
https://didyouknowfacts.com/sometimes-terrible-thoughts-blame-call-void/
“Sometimes, when I’m waiting on trains, I imagine myself jumping onto the tracks, hitting the third rail, and frying to a crisp, just before the train arrives to crush my smoldering corpse.”
What conversation or interaction with a physically normal stranger left you wondering if you'd just talked to something non-human or supernatural (like an angel/demon/ghost/alien/time traveler etc.)? : AskReddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/o4mr7y/what_conversation_or_interaction_with_a/
Some interesting stuff here. You may have to click “[x] more replies” to load more of the seemingly-never-ending posts, at least the ones in the main string (the leftmost vertical line). Inset “more replies” options are generally just replies to the posting.
Listen to people’s “forever” memories
"The After Life Experience is an interactive website that will walk you through the process of figuring out which memory from your life to date you would choose to spend eternity reliving. The "Facilitation" process will ask you a series of questions like, "When was a moment you felt your most authentic self?" or "on a brilliant adventure?" or "in awe of something so much bigger than you?" or "knew you were in love?" and on and on until you've decided on your forever memory. You can then choose to record it and share it on the website. I spent thirty minutes listening to a stream of stranger's share the moments in which they chose to spend eternity. I cried a lot. There was a woman who lost her son seconds after giving birth and spent the night holding him in a hospital bed. She said it was her event horizon and in that moment there was no past or future. This was the moment she realized that the question of "Where do we go to when we die?" is actually the same question as "Where were we before we came into being?"
How to Give Your Dishwasher a Boost
https://www.lifesavvy.com/75583/try-this-if-your-dishwasher-isnt-washing-dishes/
Also, run the sink water until it gets really hot before starting the dishwasher.
Is Taking Notes By Hand Better Than Using A Gadget?
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/04/30/Is-Taking-Notes-By-Hand-Better-Than-Using-A-Gadget/
A very important note here about scientific study and the reproducibility thereof.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Science Fictions
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/science-fictions (Science and academia and publishing)