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If Humans Are the Smartest Animals, Why Are We So Unhappy? Amy Brady If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals about Human Stupidity by Justin Gregg Little, Brown, 2022 ($29) Would we, as a species, be better off if we were more like other animals? I suspected I’d enjoy reading Justin…
Heat Waves Affect Children More Severely Emmarie Huetteman, Kaiser Health News After more than a week of record-breaking temperatures across much of the country, public health experts are cautioning that children are more susceptible to heat illness than adults are — even more so when they’re on the athletic field, living without air conditioning, or waiting in…
Microsoft Word 101: how to convert a Word doc to a PDF Barbara Krasnoff For a long time, Adobe’s PDF file format has been the format for legal and business documents, largely because they most closely resemble their hardcopy versions — and because they can be locked down relatively easily so that no changes can…
The Robocalls Problem Is So Bad That the FCC Actually Did Something Sasha Warren “Hello, we’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.” After years of seemingly unstoppable scam robocalls, this phrase is embedded into the minds of many of us. Last month the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it was ordering…
How to enable your Mac’s VoiceOver screen reader Victoria Song Starting with macOS X, Apple has included a native screen reader called VoiceOver on its Macs and MacBooks. The feature is designed to help low-vision or blind users navigate their computers — and the internet — more easily. It works by reading aloud text descriptions…
How to enable your Mac’s VoiceOver screen reader Victoria Song Starting with macOS X, Apple has included a native screen reader called VoiceOver on its Macs and MacBooks. The feature is designed to help low-vision or blind users navigate their computers — and the internet — more easily. It works by reading aloud text descriptions…
Unprecedented, Climate-Driven Disasters Are Stymieing Preparation Efforts Chelsea Harvey, E&E News After dozens of people were killed by flooding in the central United States over the past week, the question looms: How can communities better prepare for the next time? The answers are difficult. A new study warns that unprecedented events…
Unprecedented, Climate-Driven Disasters Are Stymieing Preparation Efforts Chelsea Harvey, E&E News After dozens of people were killed by flooding in the central United States over the past week, the question looms: How can communities better prepare for the next time? The answers are difficult. A new study warns that unprecedented events…
Apple’s latest Studio Display update fixes an audio problem Jay Peters Apple has released a new software update for the Studio Display following reports of audio problems like sound dropouts and choppy playback (via MacRumors). The new update, which Apple only says “resolves an audio issue”, is a revised version of update 15.5, and to…
The Webb Telescope Captures a Stunning View of the Cartwheel Galaxy Tereza Pultarova, SPACE.com The James Webb Space Telescope peered through dust and gas to reveal star formation in a rare wheel-shaped galaxy that formed in a long-ago galactic crash. The galaxy, called the Cartwheel for its striking resemblance to a wheel of an old…