Articles filed under Washington Post
-
Can you get virus via cigarette smoke?Aug 31, 2020 6:00 am - The primary way the novel coronavirus spreads, according to health experts, is through close contact with people who are infected. What if you're close enough to smell s...
-
Missed another workout? Find an accountability partnerAug 30, 2020 11:00 pm - First came the jigsaw puzzles. Then the homemade sourdough bread, followed by binge-watching all six seasons of “Downton Abbey.” My coronavirus isolation was not the mos...
-
16 sports dramas to stream if your interests lean more drama than sportsAug 30, 2020 7:31 am - While we would never in good faith recommend The CW series "Riverdale" beyond its first season, there is a line in the third so brilliantly absurd that it deserves recog...
-
Take or leave the fringe features, but the core of 'Madden 21' still feels greatAug 29, 2020 11:00 pm - Lining up under center and taking a snap in "Madden 21" for the first time in a long time in the long-running NFL sim series is an eye-opening experience, particularly f...
-
Q&A with Penn Jillette: Crackpot hippies, politics and why the best tricks are no secretAug 29, 2020 11:00 pm - Like so many, national arts reporter Geoff Edgers has been grounded by the novel coronavirus. So every Friday and many Tuesday afternoons, he hosts The Washington Post's...
-
Amazon's creepy new health wearable analyzes your voice and bodyAug 29, 2020 6:25 am - I couldn't pick just one crazy thing to say about the Halo, Amazon's new wearable health gadget. So here are three: 1. Mirror, mirror on the wall, Amazon thinks you're f...
-
Burnout, splinter factions, deleted posts: Online moderators struggle to manage divided communitiesAug 29, 2020 6:23 am - For four to six hours a day every day, Caitlin Welch busies herself as a volunteer moderator for a number of Facebook groups while her baby sleeps. Much of that time is ...
-
Restoring a century-old stair rail that has been broken for yearsAug 29, 2020 6:00 am - Q: One section of the stair railing in my 1903 condominium has been broken and poorly repaired for many years. Some wood is missing, and there is filler of some sort and...
-
Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with killing 2 in Kenosha, was fixated on supporting policeAug 29, 2020 1:00 am - Before he took his rifle to confront the unrest Tuesday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and was charged in a fatal shooting at the protests, Kyle Rittenhouse seemingly idolized o...
-
Reinterpreted 'David Copperfield' delights with well-acted, joy-filled taleAug 27, 2020 6:00 am - “The Personal History of David Copperfield” - ★ ★ ★ ★ If ever a match were made in cine-literary heaven it would be Charles Dickens and Armando Iannucci, each a ma...