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The author's first Burning Man experience was a muddy disaster.
  • I'm a mom of three, and my husband and I went to Burning Man last year.
  • I stressed about what to wear for weeks before going to the Playa.
  • I had so many new experiences, which, as a middle-aged woman, is something refreshing.

"Isn't that the thing in the desert for young people on drugs?" My mother-in-law probed


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Jeff Bezos and a Gulfstream G700 on display at EBACE.
  • Jeff Bezos took delivery of a Gulfstream G700 in July, according to JetSpy.
  • The $80 million private jet is the fourth aircraft in the Amazon founder's collection.
  • In 39 days, it emitted the same amount of CO2 as the average American would in 17 years.

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Maria Kirkeland at the start of her weight loss journey, and in the summer of 2024.
  • Maria Kirkeland lost 159 pounds sustainably by counting calories and eating more protein.
  • Kirkeland struggled with her weight for over a decade and felt stuck in a binge-restrict cycle.
  • Strength training and working on her mindset helped her lose weight healthily.

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The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times' revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe.

With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who play it.

So, when a tricky clue disrupts a player's flow, it can be



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A federal judge has blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete agreements that make it difficult for workers to join their employers’ rivals or launch competing businesses. The ruling prevents the FTC’s ban on noncompete agreements from taking effect on September 4th, though the agency could still appeal the



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The author (not pictured) thought she'd have more than one kid but is happy she has an only child.
  • When I was younger, I thought I'd have three kids.
  • But I ended up having an only child, and there are multiple benefits.
  • My son loves being an only child, too.

When I was in 7th grade, one of our classes was tasked with putting together what essentially amounted to vision boards for the rest



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Attics are all very well and good when they're being used for storage and you don't have to think about them all that much — but what if you woke one morning to find that the hatch had been...disturbed?

This was the unpleasant scenario 30-year-old freelance artist and store owner Loppy Rae from Tennessee, U.S., found themselves in recently. And it only got worse from there.

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Our homes should make us feel safe. A decent home is a refuge from the outside world, a relatively fixed point where people can drop their vigilance. Most of us need the security of home to stay balanced in the face of an unstable, sometimes frightening world.

But Americans are increasingly less safe in their own homes. This isn't because of a sudden


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Microsoft’s latest monthly security update is wreaking havoc on dual-boot Windows and Linux systems. The software giant issued a security patch last week to fix a two-year-old vulnerability in the GRUB open-source boot loader used by lots of Linux devices. Microsoft’s patch wasn’t supposed to hit dual-boot devices, but many



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Some 430 light-years from Earth lies our stalwart cosmic beacon, the North Star.

Except this star is actually volatile. It's pulsating as it constantly grows and shrinks. And a new unprecedented image of the hot ball of gas reveals it's covered in large spots.

In research published by The Astrophysical Journal, researchers used an array of telescopes in California's San Gabriel Mountains — the



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There's a little fitness secret that they don’t always tell you at the gym: Muscles are made in the kitchen. Indeed, you could spend hours pumping away in the weights room, sweating it out in front of the mirror, but if your diet isn’t up to scratch, you aren’t going to get the results that you want. You'll be pumping iron for nothing.

Sorry guys, but that's just the way it works.

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