The design of Cat Flat reflects 10 necessities for a cat’s mental and physical health. Read more…
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The design of Cat Flat reflects 10 necessities for a cat’s mental and physical health. Read more…
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Why should you opt for a camping hammock? Is it really better than sleeping on the ground in a tent? The short answer is an unequivocal yes. A hammock slashes the amount of bedding-related space you need to lug with you when compared to an air mattress, and it also allows for much less time spent trying to pump up and maintain firmness throughout the night. (Because let’s be honest, most entry level air mattresses aren’t exactly the most reliable.)
The term “hammock” can be traced back nearly 1,000 years to an Arawak word that translates into “fish net.” These early hammocks were not designed for leisure but for serving as protection from dangerous Caribbean creatures and insects. Read more…
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BEST CAMPING HAMMOCK OVERALL
MalloMe Hammock
Super comfortable and extra roomy, plus it’s a breeze to set up.
$22.09 from Amazon
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BEST BUDGET-FRIENDLY HAMMOCK
Honest Outfitters camping hammock
Comfortable, lightweight, and about the same price as a few cases of campsite beers.
$29.99 from Amazon
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BEST HAMMOCK FOR TWO PEOPLE
Wise Owl Outfitters camping hammock
Super lightweight but strong, it packs down to about the size of a grapefruit.
$37.95 from Amazon
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BEST HAMMOCK FOR MOSQUITO-HEAVY AREAS
Grand Trunk Skeeter Beeter Pro
If the only thing holding you back from experiencing the wilderness is the idea of bugs, get this.
$49.99 from Amazon
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EASIEST TO SET UP
Gold Armour Camping Hammock
Ideal for novice users, its assembly kit is extremely straightforward and intuitive.
$26.99 from Amazon
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BEST HAMMOCK FOR HIKING
Bear Butt Camping Hammock
It’s soft, lightweight, and packs down to a super small size.
$69.99 from Amazon
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BEST HAMMOCK FOR COLD TEMPERATURES
Snugpak Hammock Cocoon
This ultra warm (and super heavy) hammock is ideally suited for colder climates.
$79 from Amazon
It’s not every day a person captures footage of a javelina sprinting down a civilian street, so when someone does it rightfully creates quite the stir online.
A video recently shared to Facebook by Damion Alexander shows a javelina running at high speeds in Tucson, Arizona, and it’s the perfect combination of mesmerizing, hilarious, and utterly terrifying.
For those who aren’t familiar with javelina, though the beasts resemble pigs and boars they’re technically neither. Per the Arizona Game and Fish Department, javelina are collared peccary and reside in Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico.
The javelina in the video can be heard grunting and seen absolutely darting along the side of the road, jumping and dodging obstacles like he’s a character in a video game. The footage is so unreal that it’s going viral and getting quite the meme treatment. Read more…
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Being taken for a ride by scammers isn’t fun, but getting money from the government is.
The FTC announced its latest refund program for scam victims on Tuesday. Anyone who got swindled by an outfit best known as Click4Support should get a check from the government as part of a $1.7 million settlement. The refunds will average about $30 and go out to a little less than 58,000 people.
Click4Support’s scam operation was devious, but not especially complicated. The original FTC lawsuit from 2015 accused the group of running pop-up ads that looked like they were from established tech brands designed to make credulous viewers call them for tech support. Anyone who called was routed to a call center controlled by the scammers. Read more…
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The downside of milk is getting harder to ignore as dairy and meat industry cattle use 83 percent of the world’s farmland. Read more…
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When it comes to securing the vote, officials keep pushing for the latest and supposedly greatest in election technology. According to cryptography experts at the annual RSA conference in San Francisco, that approach might just do more harm than good.
In fact, one warned, when it comes to elections, depending on technology can be “dangerous.” Thankfully, ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, we already have a good (if not perfect) toolset to secure the vote — we just have to choose to use it.
Speaking to a crowd of security industry professionals in the main hall of San Francisco’s Moscone Center Tuesday morning, RSA Data Security founder and current MIT professor Ronald Rivest criticized voting tech like the now infamous Iowa Caucus app. Read more…
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TL;DR: You’ll get eight courses on project and quality management on sale for just $45.99 with this limited time offer.
Unless you’ve seriously never had a job, you’ve probably dipped your toes in project management. After all, pretty much every industry is dependent on managing set projects to completion, and you’ve no doubt had some small role in making that happen. Congratulations.
Yet even if the person two desks over from you is a project manager, it can be tricky to figure out what it is they actually do; and infuriating to find out how much they do it for. Thanks to a somewhat elusive mix of people skills, technical know-how, and psychology, project management is hard and project managers are in-demand. Read more…
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So far in short-lived 2020, Antarctic scientists measured warm waters eating away at the planet’s most threatening glacier, Earth experienced its warmest January in over 140 years of record-keeping, and the Australian Navy rescued 1,000 residents trapped by the nation’s historic, climate-enhanced fires.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has an ambitious, though imperfect, plan to help slash Earth’s skyrocketing carbon emissions. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, appointed a non-climate scientist to the National Security Council who incorrectly claimed Earth’s plants are in dire need of more CO2, directed his administration to officially leave the world’s climate change agreement in November, and got owned by Captain America when he childishly tweeted that the inevitable presence of winter means the planet isn’t warming. Read more…
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Dating when you’re 40 or older can be intimidating — unlike when you’re in your 20s or 30s, you can’t assume everyone your age is single and looking. If you’ve found yourself “on the market” again, it’s important to remember that half of U.S. marriages do end in divorce, so the dating pool isn’t as small as you might think.
Meeting people organically out in public still happens, but sometimes it’s easier and less intimidating to meet people where they are. It’s a comfort in knowing that the people you find on dating apps are single (hopefully) and looking for a romantic relationship, so at least you’re both on the same page. Read more…
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BEST FOR A SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP
Match
Match’s 25 years in the game make its algorithm one of the best.
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BEST FOR A LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP
eharmony
eharmony’s in-depth compatibility quiz will help you find personalized matches who are ready for a committed relationship.
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BEST FOR THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY
OkCupid
OKCupid utilizes thought-provoking questions to find compatible matches.
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BEST FOR PEOPLE IN THEIR EARLY 40S
Hinge
Designed to be deleted, Hinge uses prompts and personal information to help you find a successful relationship.
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BEST FOR THE OVER 50 CROWD
SilverSingles
With a minimum age requirement of 50, SilverSingles caters to a more mature crowd.
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BEST FOR CAREER-ORIENTED PEOPLE
Elite Singles
With the majority of users being over 30 with some level of higher education, EliteSingles caters to a more mature audience.
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BEST FOR A CASUAL RELATIONSHIP
Tinder
The original swiping app, Tinder helps you find potential relationships or casual hookups.
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BEST FOR OUTGOING WOMEN OR SHY MEN
Bumble
Women have to make the first move on Bumble and only have 24 hours to message a match.
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BEST IF YOU DON’T LIKE MAKING SNAP DECISIONS
Zoosk
Zoosk has a “maybe” swiping option and utilizes different forms of matching.
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BEST FOR TESTING FEATURES WITHOUT PAYING
Plenty of Fish
While Plenty of Fish has some good features in the free version, the site is full of scammers and fake profiles.
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WORST “OVER 50” SITE
OurTime
OurTime claims to be the no. 1 dating app for seniors, but you should definitely avoid it.
Amazon will no longer allow third-party merchants to advertise products claiming to treat or cure the coronavirus, CNBC reports.
Misinformation continues to spread on social media, and it appears the same has occurred on one of the world’s most popular e-commerce platforms. The listings target fearful consumers through deceptive language. Sellers describe their cleansers, surgical face masks, and sprays as capable of “killing” the coronavirus and, in some listings, they go as far as name-dropping well-respected agencies such as the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control. Read more…
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