Articles filed under Washington Post
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3 ways to reduce the stress of the inevitable winter sick daysDec 04, 2016 6:00 am - It always happens this time of year. You get a sore throat, and then a sniffle, and pretty soon you've got a full-blown cold. Or maybe it's your child — day care calls, ...
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Your health: Let kids play in the dirtDec 03, 2016 6:30 am - Let kids play in dirt, new book advises If you read about children's health, you've heard a lot of this before: Microbes, vilified because they cause infectious dis...
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How to get rid of Apple Calendar spamDec 03, 2016 6:20 am - Apple users who've been receiving a bunch of unwanted Calendar invites lately now have a workaround. Over the past few weeks, spammers have been sending many iOS Calenda...
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App reviews: Hop, Line a DayDec 03, 2016 6:18 am - Hop There are a lot of email haters in the world. In some ways it can be an outdated form of communication, particularly for those who prefer rapid-fire threads wit...
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Behind Reddit's crackdown on pro-Trump board, 'most toxic users'Dec 03, 2016 6:18 am - Very occasionally, a war on Reddit consumes everyone there. This is one of those times, and it is (in part) chief executive Steve Huffman's own doing. And now Huffman, w...
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Banned from Twitter? Gab promises you can say whatever you wantDec 03, 2016 6:17 am - In a way, "the purge" was the best thing to ever happen to Gab. Suddenly, the small social network that was built by a conservative Christian Republican and promises "fr...
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Is a retweet an endorsement from President-elect Trump?Dec 03, 2016 6:16 am - Donald Trump has, more than 10,000 times, tweeted something that begins with "@," a reliable sign that he is quoting a tweet from someone else. Last week, the man who wi...
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Amazon Prime to offer HBO, Cinemax add-onsDec 03, 2016 6:12 am - Amazon is continuing its push into online streaming video by letting its Prime customers purchase monthly subscriptions to HBO and Cinemax right from their Amazon accoun...
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When her heart started beating wildly, she knew something was wrongDec 03, 2016 6:00 am - Like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, the steady beat of my heart is something I had counted on all my life - until one day in 2011, when my regular h...
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LASIK patients may wind up with glare, halos or other visual symptoms, study suggestsDec 03, 2016 6:00 am - LASIK isn't always as awesome as we might think. Millions of Americans each year undergo LASIK surgery to correct their vision. Given how common the procedure has become...