Articles filed under Washington Post
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Book review: 'In Praise of Paths' reminds us of the incredible power of the simple outdoor walkJul 05, 2020 7:15 am - "In Praise of Paths: Walking Through Time and Nature" by Torbjørn Ekelund, translated by Becky L. Crook (Greystone) When I was 13, during a summer visit to my grand...
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Pay cuts for millions of U.S. workers worsen the pain of pandemicJul 05, 2020 6:24 am - Denise Iezzi, an accounting assistant, has had every Friday off since the pandemic escalated in March. This isn't by choice. Her employer cut her hours and pay. It's an ...
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Manager with autism considers disclosing diagnosis to teamJul 05, 2020 6:15 am - Q: I am on the autism spectrum but have learned to be so good at masking it or passing for neurotypical that most people don't know, and I've never seen any reason to te...
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Book review: Lose yourself in the places that inspired J.R.R. TolkienJul 04, 2020 7:15 am - "The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The places that inspired Middle-Earth" by John Garth (Princeton University Press) After months of lockdown, political unrest and the ...
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Facebook is working to persuade advertisers to abandon their boycott. So far, they aren't impressed.Jul 04, 2020 6:25 am - Facebook has spent the past few days in round-the-clock conversations with advertisers, trying to persuade them to come back to the platform with the promise of modest c...
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We've been isolated for months, and now we hate our voice assistantsJul 04, 2020 6:23 am - "I'm not a bad person," Angela Hatem said. "I'm so nice to people." But Alexa, the voice of Amazon's home devices, isn't a person, despite how hard "she" tries to emulat...
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Destructive thunderstorm winds and hail could soon trigger alerts to your cellphoneJul 04, 2020 6:20 am - On April 19, cellphones did not sound when violent 70- to 90-mph thunderstorm winds rocked the central and southern part of Alabama. RVs were toppled, as wind-driven hai...
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Consumers are closing their wallets again as coronavirus infections soarJul 04, 2020 6:19 am - Governors of states seeing coronavirus infections surge are piling restrictions back onto their citizens. But a raft of new data show its everyday Americans who have bee...
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'The Outpost' makes for both riveting war film and cautionary taleJul 03, 2020 6:00 am - On Oct. 3, 2009, a group of soldiers stationed at an isolated base in the Hindu Kush endured what would become one of the bloodiest confrontations in the U.S. war in Afg...
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In Sophie Mackintosh's dystopian 'Blue Ticket,' a woman's fate is determined by lotteryJul 02, 2020 6:00 am - "Blue Ticket," by Sophie Mackintosh A controlling father imposed his warped definition of female nature on his daughters in Sophie Mackintosh's first book, "The Wat...