The coronavirus news cycle runs 24-hours a day, 8 days a week. Every website, every channel, every newspaper filled with data, graphs, and projections. It’s overwhelming and exhausting. While this constant stream of pandemic-focused information just adds stress as we wait for infection curves to fall. But some websites are going a different, less science-based …
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If you’re jumping on every quarantine trend these days, then you’ve got more homemade bread than you know what to do with. There’s only so many sandwiches a person can eat in a day. Trust me, your homemade bread is begging for a glow-up into toast. As a midnight snack, toast just hits different. But …
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I’m not a real sports fan. Not in the know the players, know the statistics, know the coaches sort of way. I’m a sports fan in the way I get caught up in the spirit of the game. I also cherry-pick my teams. It’s not a calculated thought, but also not unlike most sports fans, …
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It’s warming up, and if you’re coping with quarantine by eating your feelings the way I am, you’re stocking up on ice cream along with baking banana bread and tending to your sourdough starter. Thankfully, grocery stores haven’t had to enforce purchasing limits for desserts yet, the way they have with toilet paper, meat products, …
It didn’t take long after the CDC recommended wearing cloth face masks anytime you leave the house, for them to turn high fashion. People with any kind of sewing skill immediately began spending their quarantine hours churning out cloth masks for non-essential workers. The hope is that people will prioritize medical grade masks for frontline …
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In 2017 Alex Honnold climbed the most brutal rock face in the world, El Capitan, without a climbing partner, ropes, or safety equipment. The mountain, in Yosemite National Park, has claimed the lives of 25 climbers, and is the site of over 100 climbing-related accidents each year. Remarkably, Honnold survived the climb, as documented in …
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So far, 2020 has given us all time to slow down and pause for self-examination. Or, a much more enjoyable past-time, examining the behavior of others. One person not withstanding scrutiny is Ellen, beloved talk show host with a brand built on niceness. The tricky thing about that; you have to be nice to other …
Our quarantine impulses may not have a simple explanation, but they are universal. As Tiger King went viral, so home gardening, baking, and bread making. Sourdough starters have become an essential accessory to the quarantine home, along with overripe bananas. Instead of Googling “bread recipe” on your phone and trusting result number one, we’ve curated …
Lately there’s some optimism to the environmental news as air quality improves and carbon emissions reduce. Environmentalists caution that worldwide quarantines aren’t a sustainable way of dealing with the climate change crisis. But even so, it’s nice to see a positive change in the environment is possible. Our oceans in particular suffer from single-use-plastics, pollution, …
Happy Earth Day! This is a strange one since the Earth is doing better, three months into a worldwide pandemic that shut down major cities across the globe. Climate scientists warn that the improvements seen in air quality and pollution are artificial, given stay-at-home orders are temporary. This pandemic showed us the impact our daily …
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