So is “duh.”

Um is the sound in dumb.

As someone who works at a grocery store, I’d like to offer a balancing perspective. When a popular blog prints the words, “while stores don’t exactly advertise these free services, they’ll usually offer them in the name of customer service” I get a bit nervous. We don’t advertise these free services because they are…

Ntm, “IKEA” itself is pronounced quite differently in different countries. For example, eye-key-ah here in the States, but ee-kay-ah in Germany. :)

Xylitol poisoning is getting more common because xylitol is turning up in more and more different products. Always good to check the label!

Xylitol can also be found in some brands of peanut butter. Something else to be careful of, since many people use peanut butter as a dog treat or to prompt a dog to eat medicine. Always read the label!

Nice list!

This isn’t performance enhancement, but it is handy. I eat a banana a couple of hours before I work out. A friend of mine recommended eating one after working out (ostensibly for the potassium) in order to reduce post-workout soreness (especially the 2nd day after). I did, and it did help, but then I thought it might…

Their methodology says they sourced their data from Numbeo, and according to Numbeo, the average cost of a dinner for two in the U.S. is $50. That number is based on contributor data, so keep that in mind (“These data are based on 164724 entries in the past 18 months from 18623 different contributors.”). Still, some…

I’d like to see what they would consider the cost of a dinner for two in the US is. That way I can make a good comparison on how much more/less I’m expecting to pay for a meal.

By the way, in this situation it’s assumed only one of the adults is working. You can drill into all the data on MIT’s Living Wage site.

From a security perspective, all Chip+Signature prevents is physical card duplication. It doesn’t prevent someone from stealing your card and using it for fraudulent purposes, since the chip isn’t actually locked.

I would recommend noting that the source article says that investing ~$5500 every year is what results in the ~$700k nest egg. The way you have it written, it seems like just that initial investment of $5500 grows into the $700k.

It’s obvious that the math doesn’t work out for the latter but for clarity’s sake...

Well, they may want to bring value to the meeting, but have a hard time with speaking in front of others, may be shy, may feel like their ideas aren’t worth talking about, etc. Not feeling comfortable speaking up doesn’t make them less valuable members of the team. People aren’t the same, so you can’t assume everyone…

While everything in the infographic is true, and does have merit, I think publishing it as the gospel truth here on Vitals does people a disservice.