• Travel

    17 Ways to Cut Your Expenses & Save Money for Travel in 2025

    May 25, 2025 - By 

    Get out a sheet of paper and write down all your set expenses: rent/mortgage, car payments, cable/streaming bill, cell phone, insurance, school payments, etc. Tally them up. Then write down all your discretionary spending. This is what you spend on food, movie nights, drinks, shopping, that daily coffee from Starbucks, your daily midday snack, and other similar things. If you don’t know what you spend money on, go track your expenses for a two-week period, see what you spend, and come back. Add that all up. What did you get? Probably a large sum of money. And I bet there…

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    Breville the Barista Pro Espresso Machine with Grinder & Milk Frother (Stainless Steel) at Amazon

    May 25, 2025 - By 

    Update: This popular deal is still available. Amazon has Breville the Barista Pro Espresso Machine with Grinder & Milk Frother (Stainless Steel) for $599.99. Shipping is free. Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for finding this deal Features: Dose Control Grinding With a single touch, the integrated precision conical burr grinder with dose control delivers the right amount of coffee on demand, maximizing flavor. The grinder offers 30 grind settings, allowing for fine-tuning to suit your preferred espresso style. Optimal Water Pressure Low-pressure pre-infusion gradually increases pressure at the start of extraction, ensuring all flavors are drawn out evenly for…

  • Astrology

    Pisces Good Days Calendar August 2025

    May 25, 2025 - By 

    Pisces Good Days Horoscope Calendar for August 2025 Days of opportunity, challenge, love, and personality represented as calendar icons for Pisces in the calendar month of August. (See also Pisces Daily Horoscopes and Pisces Monthly Horoscopes.) Pisces: Guide to Days Note: With these print and PDF functions, you can remove areas of the page you don’t want printed before finalizing.  More Good Days Horoscope Calendars (for Different Signs): Select a SignAriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPiscesAll Signs Legend How to Use the Calendar You can refer to the legend, or hover over a calendar icon to see its label or theme. For example, the star…

  • Science

    Different phases of evolution during ice age

    May 25, 2025 - By 

    A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to survive the cold during the ice age. A team of palaeontologists and palaegeneticists studied ancient fossil and DNA evidence for the nature and timing of changes animals and plants in the Northern Hemisphere. They have shown that cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted and around 700,000 years ago the cold periods doubled in…

  • Travel

    The fabled Khyber Pass from Kabul to Pakistan – Rick Steves’ Travel Blog

    May 25, 2025 - By 

    With the fall of Afghanistan, I’ve been reflecting on my travel experiences there as a 23-year-old backpacker on the “Hippie Trail” from Istanbul to Kathmandu. Yesterday and today, it’s a poor yet formidable land that foreign powers misunderstand and insist on underestimating.  In this final journal entry from 1978, stow away with me as I travel from Kabul over the fabled Khyber Pass to Pakistan.   Friday, August 4, 1978: Kabul to Rawalpindi, Pakistan  This was the morning I was psyched for. I don’t think I could have woken up feeling bad and I didn’t. Both Gene and I felt good.…

  • Astrology

    Scorpio Good Days Calendar: August 2025

    May 25, 2025 - By 

    Scorpio Good Days Calendar for August 2025 Scorpio Opportunity Days This calendar reveals, through icons, the best days for opportunities, love, reputation, and money in August for the year 2025, as well as potential challenge days. See also Scorpio Daily Horoscopes and Scorpio Monthly Horoscopes. Note: With these print and PDF functions, you can remove areas of the page you don’t want printed before finalizing.  More Good Days Horoscope Calendars (for Different Signs): Select a SignAriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPiscesAll Signs Legend This Scorpio Calendar reveals days of the month with potential opportunities, challenges, love connections, or reputation boosts. Days are generally best when…

  • Science

    Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors – Retraction Watch

    May 25, 2025 - By 

    Clarivate will no longer include citations to and from retracted papers when calculating journal impact factors, the company announced today.  The change comes after some have wondered over the years whether citations to retracted papers should count toward a journal’s impact factor, a controversial yet closely watched metric that measures how often others cite papers from that journal. For many institutions, impact factors have become a proxy for the importance of their faculty’s research. Retractions are relatively rare and represent only 0.04% of papers indexed in Clarivate’s Web of Science, according to the announcement. But the overall retraction rate has…

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    Matt Goulding on “Omnivore,” His Inventive New Show with René Redzepi

    May 25, 2025 - By 

    Drinking highballs and talking about life, creation, and food with Roads & Kingdoms co-founder Matt Goulding. A special revival episode of The Trip Podcast. Roads & Kingdoms co-founders Nathan Thornburgh and Matt Goulding return to the mic for a revival episode of The Trip Podcast to discuss Omnivore, the wantonly gorgeous eight-episode Apple TV+ series Goulding created with Noma founder René Redzepi, on the eve of its world premiere. Each episode focuses on a single ingredient, beginning with chili and bringing readers from Redzepi’s Macedonian childhood to Bangkok, where the great chef Prin Polsuk swims in a field of dried red…

  • Astrology

    Saturn Transiting Aries For Libra Sun & Rising

    May 25, 2025 - By 

    Saturn will transit Aries, opposing Libra for 2.5 years. Considering Libra’s serious interest in love and relationships, this should be a great transit for the sign. This is particularly true if you’re interested in real love and relationships with integrity. You can expect to meet Saturnian types, over the course of this transit. Capricorn, old men, and others with natural authority. You’ll learn from them. Matter of fact, if your partner has nothing to teach you, chances are the relationship will fail or end. Same consequences of you can’t or won’t learn. You’ll be tasked to mature around how you…

  • Science

    Appreciating van Leeuwenhoek: The Cloth Merchant Who Discovered Microbes

    May 25, 2025 - By 

    Imagine trying to cope with a pandemic like COVID-19 in a world where microscopic life was unknown. Prior to the 17th century, people were limited by what they could see with their own two eyes. But then a Dutch cloth merchant changed everything. His name was Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, and he lived from 1632 to 1723. Although untrained in science, Leeuwenhoek became the greatest lens-maker of his day, discovered microscopic life forms and is known today as the “father of microbiology.” Visualizing ‘animalcules’ with a ‘small see-er’ Leeuwenhoek opened the door to a vast, previously unseen world. J. Verolje/Wellcome Collection,…