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Doing morning stretches is a simple investment with big return. “You don’t need a huge amount of time — there are some easy stretches you can do in 10 minutes that will make a difference in how you feel for the rest of the day,” says Jayson Lee, a personal trainer in New York City. What might those be? Take a look at the ultimate morning stretch routine below, and promise yourself you’ll do these stretches at least four times a week — and preferably, daily....

Over the weekend, Branson may have taken the first giant leap towards making space travel a reality for everyone on Sunday as he flew into space on a test flight of the company’s spaceplane. Virgin Galactic released a video of the space flight, showing Branson and his five crewmates enjoying some leisure time while floating around above the earth. After about three minutes of weightlessness, the spaceplane then headed back down to earth and landed successfully in Virgin’s New Mexico launch site....

Still, this bathroom debate rages on. People go wild over it. I know multiple adults — couples who love their spouses and have kids and jobs and second homes — who continuously cite this as one of the most irritating aspects of their entire relationship. Is it because it’s the small issue that builds and builds until a larger debate erupts? Probably. But it’s also because, most often, the scenario plays out like this: The wife wants it down, the husband says something along the lines of “Yeah, okay....

Here’s everything you need to know about the science of being born in October. They’re More Likely To See Their 100th Birthdays… Autumn babies are more likely to live to be 100-years-old than those born in the summer, according to a 2011 study of 1,574 centenarians (people who live to or beyond 100) and their 11,000 shorter-lived siblings and spouses. The results revealed that “persons born in September-November have significantly higher chances of exceptional longevity than persons born in March,” study authors write....

The colorful Brio claims to be a mashup between pinball, hockey, and soccer. Really though, it’s pinball with a twist for those six and older. It hosts two players who each have a pair of flippers, just like classic pinball. The field — or pitch, for Ted Lasso fans — is studded with four pegs. Leave those pegs bare and they add a challenge to the game by getting in the ball’s way....

Bryson is a psychotherapist and founder and executive director of The Center for Connection and the Play Strong Institute in California. But she is best known for having co-authored The Whole Brain Child as well as The Yes Brain and No-Drama Discipline, the former of which was a New York Times best seller. Her new book, The Power of Showing Up, aims to radically alter the way parents view what it means to ‘parent’ well....

Using data from 342 U.S. schools educating more than 14 million students, Fatherly pulled together this map of school reopening plans across the country. The data, collected by Education Week, shows that about 50 percent of surveyed districts are offering online classes only, 32 percent are offering classes in person, and 18 percent are doing a mix of the two. This map shows the general distribution of school reopenings. The more red a state is, the more districts are offering in-person instruction....

Why It Works Back to that thing about proportion, the hair/beard combo is overall a great look for Anderson. It accentuates his face shape and is easily manageable.Individually, the low cut of his hair and short twist work well with the natural texture and allow him to stay cool.The razor-sharp edging around his sideburns and hairline creates a super sharp overall look. How You Can Make It Work Admittedly, you’ll need some help getting this look for yourself, at least at first....

Despite the camp saying that it had established a myriad of rules and protective measures in place for campers, such as providing hand sanitizers for each cabin, administering daily temperature checks, setting up supposedly medical grade air filtration systems to try and kill the virus, and plenty of time outdoors, 82 campers and staff have contracted coronavirus and the camp is now shut down, according to Buzzfeed News. Rebecca Duncan, the camp’s health service director, emailed parents to advise them in taking important health precautions for their families after the camp closed its doors....

What is your name? Nik Wallenda. Occupation? Funambulist. That’s a fancy way of saying wire-walker. Age? 38. How old are your children? 19, 16, and 15. What are their names? Yanni, Amadaos, and Evita. Are they named after anyone in particular? Not necessarily, just names that they loved. And all of their names have different meanings. I think names are powerful. A name like Amadaos or Yanni is pretty cool....

Draw Maps of Daily Routines Setting concrete routines for you and your family is going to be the first big step to make sure there are no wasted moments when you’re at your busiest. The most important time to take advantage of these routines is during daily transitions: getting out of bed, getting out the door, coming back from school, etc. “Take or draw pictures of each step as a visual reminder of the next step in the process,” says Ann DeWitt, marriage therapist and co-host of the Passport to Parenting podcast....

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The agency’s records, which date back to the 1880s, analyze nearly seven million male births and 8.5 million female births to determine how many times a name has been used. In 1919, the top name for girls was Mary, which is nowhere to be found on the 2018 list. But the number one name for boys, John, still ranks in the top 50, although falling to number 42. The girls’ names from 1919 that remain on the most popular list for 2018 include Elizabeth, Evelyn, Grace, and Sarah....

When TikTok user Jonathan Normoyle, a dad to two twin daughters, shaved his beard, he probably thought he was due for a necessary clean-up and didn’t think of the fact that his infant daughters might not recognize him. They’re still very young, right in that “stranger danger” phase where young babes cry at the sight of anyone they don’t recognize. And, at least according to the viral video he posted on the social media platform, they didn’t recognize their dad without all the hair covering his face....

This new report comes nearly a year after the non-profit investigative newsroom ProPublica published a shocking report alleging that the manufacturer Evenflo deliberately marketed a product, the Evenflo Big Kid booster seat, towards families of children who were not old enough, tall enough, or heavy enough to safely use the product and be protected during a collision. Additionally, the company claimed that these booster seats were “side-impact tested,” without explaining that they failed those tests....

RELATED: 20 American Made Toys That Make Excellent Gift Ideas The toy models are actually laser-cut from thin sheets of plywood and inspired by real-life/historic mechanisms. Ugears range in complexity and number of parts, from a simple mechanical flower to a 443-piece locomotive that can travel up to 15 feet and comes with a railroad crossing and platform. To build, all you do is pop the pieces off the sheets and connect using their “patented joint design....

More than 70 companies and 3,300 workers started the world’s largest four-day work week trial earlier this month. Employees are working four days per week, an average of around 32 to 35 hours, with no pay cut for six months while researchers collect data about how the extra day off is spent and examine areas such as work/life balance, burnout, and stress, as well as job and life satisfaction. One of the companies taking part in the trial, a construction staffing firm called Girling Jones, got an early start by implementing a four-day work week back in January as a way to attract new employees....

Sturm, a microbiology lab tech, told TODAY that her son was always interested in the work she does (swabbing household items for germs) so in the spring of 2015, she let him try it out on himself. After playing outside with the family dog, she had the boy press his hand onto a Petri dish, which she then incubated at body temperature for one day. The bacteria-covered photo that’s blowing up on social media is what the dish looked like after sitting out for a week....

According to the Lights, Camera, Pod Podcast, actor Paul Bettany recalls that Joss Whedon — the director of Avengers: Age of Ultron — had pushed for the inclusion of some hint of Vision’s junk in concept sketches back in 2015. Obviously, this didn’t happen, but the question still remains: As a shape-shifting robot, does Vision also have the ability to well, you know, make a baby, in the same fashion that several humans do?...