Or simply boycott the whole AirBnb concept and have professionals provide the service. Hotels and real bed-and-breakfasts, where the standards are mandated by law.

This is a new paranoia, and mostly an American one. When I were young, kids walked around butt naked, no problem. There were no bathing suits for toddlers, nor bikinis for anyone too young to have something to fill them with. And in most of the world, it still isn’t a problem that kids are naked when weather permits.

Anyone who eats sweetened cereal should be abolished, in my not so humble opinion.  Then again, they get diabetes and die early anyhow.

Add a complete 1L bag of milk to the bowl.

No, marshmallow has its own distinct taste.

Whenever I read explanations — and mostly fail to fully understand them, anyway — on how quantum computers work, I get the impression they are just making wild guesses that tend to be lucky often enough instead of properly calculating stuff.

And what if the drone goes down? They can’t retrieve it, and leave polluting garbage?

Still, hate speech “often looks like attacks on people for their perceived race, color, religion, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation,” says Evan Feeney, the Media, Democracy and Economic Justice Campaign Director for civil rights advocacy group Color of Change. “Anything that attacks someone for these…

They claim this is basically carbon neutral in and of itself.

Sour grapes.  Just let it go.

With four *kids*, don’t get your hopes up too high.

Needless to say my friend is a high school math teacher.

In the interests of security, battery life, and peace of mind, for example, you might want to turn off wifi and mute your phone when IFTTT detects it has left home or arrived at work. When you get back in the evening, IFTTT is able to unmute your handset and turn wifi back on automatically.

Indeed. The optical illusion of the full moon being bigger when it’s close to the horizon (close to the equinoxes) has a much bigger impact.

If you want a food remedy, you should eat penne instead of ziti.

BetaMax for the win.

I have no idea why people pay to watch someone’s advertisements.

Oh, trust me, even if you get a little bit of exercise, you will die.

It absolutely counts. Every bit of activity does. But that it counts doesn’t imply “so you do enough”. You can do more, which will count as more.

It’s all about running a calorie deficit. That means burning more calories than taking them in. I’ll explain.