Lasting

Is happiness elusive to many? It’s a question one often ponders over. In her latest book 3 Tips: The Essentials of Peace, Joy and Success, author-philanthropist Meera Gandhi answers this pertinent question, attempting to give readers tools to cultivate and live a joyful life.“Today’s world is a fast-paced one with unprecedented pressures. The things that calm and centre the human psyche: family, love, touch, kindness, empathy, concern etc are all sacrificed to work and getting ahead in a rat race to make money to…

Professor Ernő Rubik, inventor of Rubik's Cube, is photographed in New York on Sept. 18, 2018. Rubik has seen his color-matching puzzle go from a classroom teaching tool in Cold War-era Hungary to a worldwide phenomenon with over 450 million cubes sold and a mini-empire of related toys. Credit: AP Photo/Richard Drew, File If you've ever had trouble solving a Rubik's Cube, a good piece of advice is to break it down into steps.…

Tesla (TSLA) investors see the negative impact of Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition lasting on the company going forward. There’s no doubt that Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter had a direct negative impact on Tesla and its investors, considering that the CEO had to sell billions of dollars worth of Tesla (TSLA) stocks to finance the $44 billion acquisition. The sale of those millions of stocks directly contributed to a sharp decline in Tesla’s stock price. There’s also a less tangible…

Horror really embraces trends arguably more so than any other genre out there, with each decade seeing its own hyper fixation. The 2000s saw incredibly mean-spirited horror movies come out with characters facing so much misery it could be deemed just misanthropic. The Wrong Turn saga has lasted way too movies given its actual quality or ideas, with the series somehow featuring seven different entries with just one reboot. For a series which is almost entirely a one-note gore Olympics, it’s an impressive number of…

(a) Height profile (z) of mean local gravimetric microplastic (MP) content (n = 3) inside samples. (b) Height profile (z) of mean water saturation Θ (volume water/volume pore space) of each treatment after 420s inside samples. The control treatment is shown in black, and the medium and high MP contents are shown in blue and magenta, respectively. The shaded outlines resemble in color code the 95% confidence interval of the respective mean. Credit: Vadose…

Bitcoin’s four-day streak above $20,000 has invigorated crypto traders as they bet the token is due for a resurgence after a brutal year. Bitcoin's four-day streak above $20,000 has invigorated crypto traders as they bet the token is due for a resurgence after a brutal year. On Tuesday, the largest cryptocurrency by market value advanced above $20,000, and as of Friday morning in New York it had yet to fall below that threshold. The breakout marked the end of a nearly three-week slump that saw Bitcoin trading below the…

Feeling chirpy? Being around birds is linked to lasting mental health benefits in new research.Seeing or hearing birds is associated with an improvement in mental well-being that can last up to eight hours, according to new research from King’s College London.This mental improvement from seeing or hearing birds was also evident in people with a diagnosis of depression, which is the most common mental illness worldwide. This suggests the potential role of birdlife in helping those with mental health conditions.Published…

In 2020, individuals reported lower levels of intimacy and relationship satisfaction.The multitude of stressful events could be responsible for this impact. The <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>COVID-19</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It has…

2. Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra – Most versatile Battery test score: 12:30Battery capacity: 5000mAh While the S22 Ultra might not boast quite the same chart-topping battery longevity as the Nokia XR20, based on our artificial benchmarking scores, it earns its place on this list as being one of the longest-lasting Android flagships we’ve tested from the 2022 crop, so far. In his review, Lewis Painter said that the Exynos 2200-powered model tested was able to comfortably last “all day,”…

One of the biggest complaints about Samsung’s foldable smartphones has been their battery life and charging speeds. Samsung has addressed those issues with the Galaxy Z Flip 4 and the Galaxy Z Fold 4. The Galaxy Z Flip 4 comes with a bigger battery (3,700mAh) and faster charging (25W), while both devices benefit from the more power-efficient Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor. A new video from YouTuber TechDroider shows putting the Galaxy Z Flip 4 and the Galaxy Z Fold 4 (4,400mAh) through a battery life test. These phones…