I was born missing my left arm. And while there really isn’t anything I can’t do, it took me a long time to feel comfortable with my appearance. For a long time, it felt like an obvious inadequacy in a world saturated with an obsessive desire for perfection.
When I was born, the doctors told my parents they could fix me. I was fitted with a prosthetic device at 18 months, in order to blend in and develop “normally. Read More...
The Cash App , by Square , is a peer-to-peer payment app, like Venmo , that allows you to pay friends and family directly, without having to exchange cash or even be in the same place. It also allows you to keep track of who owes you money and what for. While the app was originally created for this simple purpose, it has since expanded, and allowed you to do things like get a Cash App debit card so you can treat your Cash App balance the same way you would treat your checking account balance. Read More...
Growing up, Olivia Dreizen Howell, 39, “lived on” diet soda. So did her family. At a family reunion in 1996, everyone sported T-shirts with their shared surname in Diet Coke-can font. “We drank Diet Coke, Diet ginger ale, and Diet Sprite like water—there was no difference in our household,” she says.
Like many, Howell believed that sugar-free soda was a benign choice. But the latest research casts doubt on that assumption, linking diet drinks to mood disorders, fatty liver development, autoimmune diseases, and cancer, to name a few. Read More...
