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  Dear Dr. NerdLove, My partner is an adjunct instructor of Sociology at a local community college. He is a brilliant social scientist and a great teacher, but he is terrible at the bureaucratic side of things: he loses track of emails, has a crazy disorganized mess of files on his computer, and struggles to navigate online systems to double check his work and connect with his colleagues and supervisors. I don’t think this is a terribly unusual persuasion for a professor-type, but the early stages of his career coupled with the digital demands of the pandemic have really brought this issue to...

Once you’ve hit the point where you have two or more guitar floor stands laying around, you quickly start to realize just how much space the things take up. You can cut down a lot of that wasted space and regain the use of your floor with these nifty wall-mounted hangers from Hercules. The way these differ from your everyday static wall hooks is that they have an auto-grip function that closes around the guitar’s neck as you place it between the arms, then opens again as you lift the guitar away. Gimmicky? Maybe. But it sure looks and feels...

  1. PROCIRCLE PROCIRCLE 2Pcs Mini Silicone Oven Mitts Heat Resistant Oven Gloves Pinch Mitts Potholder for Kitchen Cooking&Baking (Grey and Apricot) PROCIRCLE - These small mitts are very handy to use and can be easily hung on your oven door handle or from a hook their color makes them easy to locate for quick access mitts will nest within each other for convenient storage or use double for extremely hot or cold itemsThe silicone oven mittens are great kitchen accessory and necessary It actually solved the problem that avoiding hands burned by pot or something hot Professional quality silicone...

#NoPawsLeftBehind. Last Tuesday, I glanced at the “What’s happening” sidebar on Twitter and saw that nearly 32,000 people were tweeting about this topic; therefore, it was “trending.” A description of the trend, presented just beneath the hashtag, explained that it was  “commemorating the service dogs left behind following the withdrawal of American troops in Afghanistan.”Clicking through the hashtag, I found a slightly more irritating story. Earlier that day, the alt-right personality Jack Posobiec had tweeted, “Today I am launching the #NoPawsLeftBehind Campaign,” and asked people to post photos of their dogs “in solidarity with the service dogs left behind in...

Hotel Designs Ed Warner: “Accessibility is not a dirty word in design” Ed Warner: “Accessibility is not a dirty word in design” In 2021, it is shocking that new design-led hotels are emerging in the global hospitality arena without the same level of consideration when it comes to the design of accessible, disabled-access guestrooms and spaces. In a purposeful interview with Ed Warner, the Founder and CEO of Motionspot, editor Hamish Kilburn only hopes to raise awareness for stylish accessible design… You may or may not know this, but before I was the editor of Hotel Designs, I was part...