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FHFA extends foreclosure and eviction protection into 2021: What hopeful homebuyers need to know
If you’ve been waiting for prices to drop before buying a home, you’ll likely be waiting at least a bit longer.
This Is What Happens in Your Brain When You Learn by Listening
As cinemas around the world are closing their doors in record numbers, the theaters in our minds are more active than ever — at least judging by the explosive growth of podcasts and audiobooks.
Best mortgage lenders
Buying a new home is an exciting time at any stage of life. But amid a multitude of mortgage lenders, choosing the right one can be a challenge. To point you in the right direction, here are our picks for America’s top lenders.
For the Record: How Wuhan Diary Charts the Start of the Pandemic
In January of this year, when many of us in the Western world first learned about a mysterious illness in the Chinese city of Wuhan, a lone voice from the outbreak’s epicenter became an invaluable source of information for millions of people who didn’t know what to believe.
Becoming More Productive Isn’t a Goal, It’s a Habit
Get more done during your day by developing productivity habits that last a lifetime.
One Week to a Better You: 7 Skills You Can Pick Up in 7 Days
Despite what you may have heard, it doesn’t always take 10,000 hours to develop a new skill.
Becoming a Podcaster: A Deep-dive into the Former First Lady’s Memoir
The Michelle Obama Podcast drops today, so we’re taking this opportunity to take a look back at her memoir, Becoming, which tells the story of how she got here.
Famous Bookshelves: 15 Nonfiction Books Successful People Recommend
If you’re like many ambitious readers, you likely started this year with a stack of unread books you only dreamed about having the time to finish. But six months and one pandemic later, and there’s a good chance you’ve read them all, leaving you looking for some new titles to tear into.
2020 So Far: A Dozen of the Best Nonfiction Books Published This Year
2020 hasn’t exactly been a banner year but at least great nonfiction books just keep on coming. Here are a few of our favorites.
How Limitations Can Unlock Creativity in the Kitchen (and Beyond)
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are dealing with a slew of new restrictions in our lives. We’re not able to spend time with all of our loved ones; we can’t go to restaurants and bars we formerly frequented, and we’re unable to travel to places we long to visit. And there’s yet another way in which these restrictions are affecting us — and that’s right in our own kitchens.
During the past few months, grocery stores have been picked clean by panic buyers, and coronavirus outbre...
TunnelBear VPN Review for 2020
Most modern VPNs employ a similar, sleek aesthetic when it comes to their brand marketing and their software’s user interface. TunnerBear, on the other hand, takes an entirely different approach and instead embraces a playful bear-centric theme throughout the company’s website and apps. But does the lightheartedness of this brand mean you can’t take it seriously when it comes to privacy and security? In this TunnelBear review, we’ll tell you everything you need to know.
VyprVPN Review for 2020
The co-founders of Giganews, a popular Usenet provider, launched VyprVPN in 2009 after learning about Room 641A, a warrantless surveillance facility operated by AT&T on behalf of the NSA. For this reason, the founders chose to incorporate their business in Switzerland, where privacy laws are stronger than they are in the U.S. But just because VyprVPN was created by privacy advocates, does that necessarily mean their service is safe?
IPVanish VPN 2020 Review
If you’re in the market for a quality VPN, one of the most popular services in use today is IPVanish. With more than 40,000 IP addresses spread across 1,300 servers in dozens of countries, IPVanish makes it easy to mask your internet activity at all times. But is the service trustworthy and reliable? In this IPVanish review, we’ll take a look.
ProtonVPN 2020 Review
After finding success as the provider of a secure email service called ProtonMail, the Swiss company Proton Technologies expanded its offerings with a high-speed VPN service. But is ProtonVPN good enough to meet your needs? Let’s take a look.
Dealing with Status Anxiety When Life Is Static
In the midst of massive economic upheaval, and as the threat of a second wave of Covid-19 looms large, many of us remain in relative lockdown with our lives at a standstill. And as millions of people file for unemployment each week, it’s clear that the path forward for many of us will substantially differ from the lives we were leading prior to the pandemic.