What to do when returning to the workforce after a long breakThe most common career path involves starting a job soon after graduating from college and working continuously until retirement with the potential for a short gap to get a degree (like an MBA) or a time between jobs. But, life can intervene to create longer career gaps.
Auroras Are About to Become More Common. Here’s Where to See the Dazzling Light ShowMagnetospheric substorms will create more auroras over the next couple of years, starting right now. Here's where and when to see the sun doing its thing.
How to Start Strength Training If You’ve Never Done It BeforeThe weight room at the gym can be an intimidating place. The equipment looks like it could crush you if you use it wrong. People grunt as they haul heavy things up and down. And why don’t these machines come with instruction manuals, anyway?
The USDA’s Gardening Zones Shifted. This Map Shows You What’s Changed in Vivid DetailThere’s a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.
4 Resume Mistakes to Avoid When You Don’t Have Much ExperienceThe first mistake is including irrelevant work experience.
Down the Rabbit Hole: How One Collector Discovered a World of Cast-Iron DoorstopsThompson’s collection of doggie doorstops includes those in the shape of pugs, bulldogs, and boxers; basset hounds, bloodhounds, and foxhounds. He’s even got a few Chihuahuas.
Air Fryer Stuffed Mushrooms Are My Favorite Mini-MealThe best stuffed mushrooms I’d ever eaten were packed with so much filling, they could have just as easily been called meatballs with mushroom bottoms.
Kim Kardashian: Hollywood has an unlikely, lasting place in gaming historyKim Kardashian was already more than a household name in 2013. The Kardashian name (hers, specifically) was equivalent with “celebrity” — or “notoriety,” depending on who was saying it.
It’s Quinta Brunson’s World and We’re All Just Laughing in ItThe actress and writer behind the hit series ‘Abbott Elementary’ is quietly revolutionizing television.
Conan O’Brien Keeps It Old-SchoolHis true gift lies in his combination of an entertainer’s desperate desire to be liked and an antagonistic streak. It took Conan O’Brien less than 90 seconds to upend Hot Ones.
I Never Wanted to Be a Parent but I Love Being ‘The Lady Down the Street’Being a non-parent grown-up shows kids that there’s more than one way to have a good life.
How the Dairy Industry Took Over the InternetA vast constellation of celebrities, from Kelly Ripa to the McDonald’s mascot Grimace, have helped push dairy sales.
Save Your Skin: How You Shower Matters More Than When, Dermatologists SayShowering in the morning or at night is a personal preference, dermatologists say. For skin health and hygiene, focus more on how you do it.
Why aren’t we vaccinating birds against bird flu?It’s not as complicated as it seems, but there’s one key hurdle. The worst bird flu outbreak in US history continues with strange new developments. Bird flu is now infecting cows, the FDA found viral genetic material in milk, and a second human was recently infected.
Maybe You Shouldn’t Talk to SomeoneIn January, I quit therapy. I told people (including my therapist) that it was about the money — specifically, that I was about to have a lot less of it. I had just been laid off from a job where I was, in retrospect, wildly overpaid; without it, I could no longer justify the $300-per-session fee.
The View from Palestinian AmericaIn 1987, when Palestinians rose up against the Israeli occupation in what would become known as the first intifada, I was six years old. Each evening, when Peter Jennings delivered the six-thirty news, my family would gather in our wood-panelled basement, in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
The WNBA’s Male Practice Squads Lose to Women All the Time — and Enjoy ItEvery professional and DI women’s basketball team practices against men, and has for years.
Goodbye Body Shop? Buying Body Butter Can’t Save the WorldWhen I heard the Body Shop was closing one-third of its Canadian stores, my first thought was “bananas.” Few scents can transport me back to the ’90s quite like the Body Shop Banana Shampoo does.
India, gangs … or both? Who is behind assassinations of Canadian Sikhs?Less than half an hour after the prominent Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead outside a temple in British Columbia, Moninder Singh addressed a crowd near the site of the brazen attack. Reaction from Delhi, more than 11,000 kilometres away, was starkly different.
The Fad Diet to End All Fad DietsThere isn’t much evidence that intermittent fasting leads to lasting weight loss. Why is it still so popular? This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.