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The Best Butt Exercise You’re Not Doing
2In the fitness world, it’s apparent that the past few years have been the era of the butt. Folks all over have stepped off the treadmill and instead, have traded it for a set of weights and a lot of squats. Achieving a peachy booty is the goal of all kinds of people and it’s…
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Stop Glasses From Fogging Up With a Band-Aid on Your Mask
We’ve covered a bunch of anti-fog hacks here ever since masks became commonplace, but a doctor recently tweeted an even simpler one than folding the top of the mask, using a piece of tissue, or coating your lenses with anti-fog spray. It’s a band-aid.
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Masks Protect the Wearer, Too
We’ve known since close to the start of the pandemic that wearing a mask protects other people from your own respiratory droplets. But shouldn’t masks protect the wearer, as well? The science wasn’t available to answer that question at first, but it’s probably true. The CDC recently updated their mask advice to note that protection…
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If Your Mask Has a Valve, It’s Half Useless
If you’re wearing a face mask with a little plastic valve embedded in it, you should know that valves compromise the effectiveness of the mask — and this is true whether your mask is a hardware-store N95 or a designer cloth mask.