If you want to get Solo Loop bands for your Apple Watch in several colors, this may be your chance to grab a few at a discount. Woot is selling them for up to 70 percent lower than their actual price, so you can get the Braided Solo Loop bands that sell for $99 on…
Somalia and Ethiopia have agreed to restore diplomatic representation in their respective capitals, more than a year after Somalia severed ties over a sea access agreement landlocked Ethiopia signed with the separatist northern Somali region of Somaliland. In a joint statement after an unexpected visit by Somalia’s president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, to Ethiopia’s capital, Addis…
We’d been riding our mountain bikes and chatting for a solid half-hour when my friend casually said: “Oh yeah, I’m pregnant.” She said it the same way one might say: “I stopped by the grocery store” – although this was, in fact, a conversational hand grenade. My stomach dropped. No, I thought. It was a…
Human beings have always been obsessed with picking up heavy things. Lifting a heavy rock was reportedly a test of manhood in prehistoric tribes. In cultures across the globe, stone lifting became a sport and ceremonial practice. Today, you can test your strength with Louis Vuitton dumbbells or a kettlebell shaped like Bigfoot’s head. Lifting…
About 35,000 homes and businesses without electricity in Los Angeles – data 34,646 homes and businesses in Los Angeles are now without electricity, according to Poweroutage.us, an outage monitor that tracks blackouts across the US. Roughly 18,400 Southern California Edison customers remain without power, as well as about 16,100 Los Angeles Department of Water &…
As historic wildfires burn across the Los Angeles area, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has urged residents to protect themselves from the smoke by staying indoors when possible and setting up portable air filters and purifiers. For several decades, air quality in the US was trending up by many measures. Data indicated…
They remain some of the most complex diagnostic procedures carried out by doctors. To take an electrocardiogram, or ECG, they first have to attach 10 or more electrodes to a patient’s chest, arms and legs to measure the heart’s electrical activity. Then, once these signals have been recorded, a cardiologist has to interpret them to…
Wildfires burning across the Los Angeles area have left 16 dead, thousands displaced, and over 10,000 structures destroyed. As authorities struggle to contain the blazes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has urged those in the area to monitor the local air quality on their weather app, or on airnow.gov. Wildfire smoke, a…