preparation
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Use a ‘Bilingual Baby Name Finder’ to Help Name Your Kid
If you and your partner come from different language backgrounds, you may find yourself struggling to land on a baby name compatible with both languages. That’s the position Bemmu Sepponen and his partner found themselves in as they were expecting their Japanese-Finnish son and wanted a name that would work in both languages.
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How Tiny Mistakes Cause Huge Disasters
“If I was setting up curriculum at a university,” says engineer Foone Turing, “I’d make an entire semester-long class on the Challenger disaster, and make it required for any remotely STEM-oriented major.” Because, says Foone, the disaster was a lot less random or simple than people tend to think. In a thread of 102 tweets,…
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Doomsday Prep For Non-Paranoid People
Perhaps your subconscious, like mine, has reserved 3AM-5AM for an exercise I like to call “Panic Town”, a half-awake, blurry, mental recitation of anything that could go catastrophically wrong for the country, or for you personally, or for… literally anyone. It’s a fun two hours!
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Fill Your Freezer When A Storm Is On Its Way
It’s no fun to lose power for hours or days, especially if you end up having to throw out the food in your fridge. If you know a big storm is coming, you can keep food safe longer by filling your freezer with jugs of water.