A month into officially being a royal and she’s already making history. Meghan Markle is the first royal nominated for a Teen Choice Award, which audiences learned when the 2018 Teen Choice nominees were revealed last Friday, June 22. Markle was nominated for Choice Style Icon. This means every teenager on earth better vote to see if she’ll … Read more
Seventy years ago was arguably the start of the modern computer age. A machine that took up an entire room at a laboratory in Manchester University ran its first programme at 11am on 21 June 1948. The prototype completed the task in 52 minutes, having run through 3.5 million calculations. The Manchester Baby, known formally … Read more
E Appliances’ new French door fridge provides about a cubic foot more capacity than comparable models. (Photo: GE Appliances, a Haier company) June 20, 2018 12:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time LOUISVILLE, Ky.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–What could you do with nearly an extra cubic foot of fridge space? Perhaps you’d prepare more meals in advance or save a trip to … Read more
While searching for the perfect sofa, Rob Royer ran into way too many challenges. Royer set out to create the opportunity to customize a quality home piece with budget and personalization in mind. Now, as the founder of Interior Define, he’s broadening his company’s horizons. The interior-decor company started in the living room. Now, the dining room is their next … Read more
Alexa speakers have already proven themselves useful all around the house. They’re awesome alarm clock replacements for your bedside table and work great as cooking assistants in the kitchen. They can help around the office or with your classes. One room you may not have considered adding an Alexa speaker to is the bathroom. Privacy is certainly a big concern here, so you’ll want to make … Read more
Luxury means different things to different people. But if luxury means style and space to you, then this dazzling and sprawling house is worth a second look. The double-storied house has six bedrooms and plenty of living spaces to enjoy. It has two large dining areas besides a pergola and a master suite balcony. The … Read more
Theatre Etobicoke presents a portrait of a vanishing species — the middle class — this week. The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney is set in the dining room of a well-to-do household, where the family assembles daily for breakfast, and dinner, and any and all occasions. Actors change roles as they portray a wide variety of … Read more
arents these days are stressed. So are their kids. The root of this anxiety, one scholar says, is the way we understand the relationship between parents and children. Alison Gopnik, a psychology and philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley, thinks parents—especially middle-class parents—view their children as entities they can mold into a specific image. … Read more
You can parse this victory any way you like, but its main ingredient was time. Time to enter the modern world. The 35 years between the insertion of the Eighth Amendment and the vote for its removal, to be exact. Most of the people who worked on the campaign, on both sides, were not born … Read more
Former President Pranab Mukherjee paid rich tributes to India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, on his death anniversary here on Sunday, saying that but for him, India would have gone down the path of other newly liberated countries of Asia and Africa. He was speaking at the release of an illustrated biography of Nehru authored … Read more