Crystal Cox/Business Insider Dating in the pandemic is a nightmare filled with endless screen time, awkward Zoom dates, and trite conversations. But if you’re fortunate enough to be working from home, a solution might be lurking in Slack: a coworker crush. Topics of conversation are baked right in, and there’s […]
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A crafty entrepreneur named Kayla Mason is going viral on TikTok after sharing how she found a $38,000 house on Craigslist and transformed it into a “fully functioning Airbnb.” By day, Mason is the owner of a mindfulness brand called Breathe KC. In other words, her job has absolutely nothing […]
Back in March, before the world was turned upside down by Miss Rona, I spoke to chef and cookbook author Hooni Kim about a few of his favorite Korean recipes for cooking on weeknights. We were coming up on spring, and the collection of dinner ideas he shared were meant […]
If you want to throw a party at a rented home in Arizona, you’re going to have to pay for two nights, at least if you rent through Vrbo. The vacation rental site has pledged to ban all one-night rentals in Arizona for at least several months during the COVID-19 […]
Netflix (NFLX) has thrived amid the novel coronavirus, which forced billions of people across the globe into their homes and helped the streaming service add almost as many subscribers in the first six months of 2020 as it did all of last year. But the company rose from DVD-by-mail startup […]
By Richa Naidu CHICAGO (Reuters) – Spooked by COVID-19, Martha Jones of Southern Kentucky will not let her three children trick-or-treat this year. Instead, she is transforming her sun deck into a mini-haunted house and setting up games, a grill and a bonfire in her backyard. “It’ll give the children […]
The coronavirus pandemic has canceled many things, but FOMO doesn’t appear to be one of them. Jennifer Wolkin, a New York-based health and neuropsychologist, describes FOMO, aka the “fear of missing out,” as “anxiety that’s elicited by the perception that others are thriving while we aren’t, or that others are overall experiencing a better […]
Though you may have skipped spring break this year or canceled your family summer vacation, holiday travel might still be on the table. On one hand, the coronavirus is nowhere near eradicated, so it’s hard to know whether it will be safe to travel by winter. But with ticket prices […]
A 2019 GOBankingRates survey found that debt would be the No. 1 roadblock that would stop most Americans from reaching their 2020 goals. And those who are already struggling with existing debt have likely found their situation exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, which has left millions of Americans without jobs. […]
Saving money can be hard for a number of reasons. Often, there is not a large margin between what most people earn and what most people spend. Without some type of strategy, that little bit that’s left over every month can be spent all too easily. Cutting back on your […]
The big market break that we have all been anticipating is finally upon us. The remarkable speed at which this correction is occurring has already ripped stocks back to where they were a month ago, with overstretched tech leading the slide. S&P 500 has plummeted 7% since September 2nd, while […]
Getty Feeling down? Maybe it’s time to use those miles! Or, at least, think about it. A new poll conducted by the Institute for Applied Positive Research has found that simply planning a trip can help boost happiness and alleviate stress. According to the study, 97 percent of respondents say […]
Matt Stroshane/Walt Disney World Resort via Getty Images In early July, the Walt Disney Company reopened parts of two amusement parks: Disney World near Orlando, Florida, and Disneyland in Anaheim, California. The former reopened to house the tightly controlled 13-week experiment known as the NBA Bubble, in which staff, players, […]
(Bloomberg) — About three years ago, Reed Hastings set out to answer a question that had bedeviled Hollywood for the past decade: How did a small DVD-by-mail company build the most popular TV service in the world? Hastings, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Netflix Inc., was never fond of revisiting his […]
A Los Angeles Unified School District student uses his fingers to solve a math problem while taking an online class at Boys & Girls Club of Hollywood in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) OAKLAND, Calif. — When the coronavirus closed schools and child care centers and turned American parenthood […]
The tide of symbolism in “The Third Day,” HBO’s new limited series, rises high enough to threaten to swamp the show. But two urgently compelling central performances keep viewers afloat all the same. The six-part series is broken into two halves but united by setting: A surreal island called Osea […]
Fashion designer Anifa Mvuemba, founder of women’s apparel line Hanifa, outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Anifa Mvuemba, founder of the direct-to-consumer women’s apparel line Hanifa, didn’t set out to revolutionize the fashion industry when she had a viral 3-D runway show […]
We like you and we’re interested, but we want to see you play live. The head coach will be coming out to see you. I look forward to watching you on the AAU trail this summer. Mid-level college basketball prospects hear some version of these phrases over and over from […]
BERLIN — German pharmaceutical company CureVac says it is receiving a further 252 million euros ($298 million) to develop a coronavirus vaccine. The company says its request for additional funding has been approved by Germany’s Ministry for Education and Research, provided certain milestones are reached. Germany’s state-owned KfW bank has […]
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — A South Carolina beach town has renewed its mask mandate. That’s despite coronavirus cases trending downward after a spike linked to the popular tourist destination this summer. Myrtle Beach has extended through Sept. 30 the July executive order mandating face coverings worn in public places, according […]
MADRID — The Madrid regional government is further restricting family reunions and social gatherings to curb a sharp spike in coronavirus cases just as schools are set to reopen. An existing ban on outdoor meetings of more than 10 people is now being extended indoors, after most new recent infections […]
(Bloomberg) — India added more than 83,000 new confirmed coronavirus infections, taking the country’s total to almost 4 million. Australia recommitted to open up the economy by December, but Prime Minister Scott Morrison failed to secure an immediate agreement to lift border restrictions. In Italy, former Premier Silvio Berlusconi was […]