Are Spotted Lanternflies Still An Issue? 5 Ways to Protect Your Yard If you've already encountered a few or a group of spotted lanternflies in your yard, you may need to take extra steps to ... recommends searching for spotted lanternfly eggs in autumn and winter. They ... 06/30/2024 - 1:08 am | View Link
Making Your Home More Resilient Can Boost Your Peace of Mind (and Your Resale Value) Resilient homes are more likely to withstand wind, water, and other climate-related damage. These projects may also increase your home’s value. 06/28/2024 - 5:29 am | View Link
The craziness of American sports Football, bowling and baseball are not universal games and are often described wildly by people not from the United States. 06/26/2024 - 10:35 am | View Link
Why there's less twinkle on summer nights — and how we can help the fireflies One of the most effective ways to help lightning bugs is to reduce light pollution. Turn off unnecessary outdoor lights and use motion sensors or timers to minimize the impact on nocturnal wildlife. 06/25/2024 - 10:05 pm | View Link
Wild Harvest Honey Farm and others work to protect pollinators and educate After serving his country in World War II, U.S. Army medic Ernest Boring returned to the family farm in McLean County, Illinois. The land and his family’s beekeeping tradition helped ... 06/24/2024 - 8:02 am | View Link
In London, a mobile phone is stolen every 6 minutes. "If I steal your phone, I'm stealing a thousand dollars," says digital identity expert David Birch. But "If I can get into your bank account, I can steal $100,000. So that's what they really want." So there are important steps to take immediately - including turning off message preview.
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."