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If you are a cat parent then you must know how tough it is to get your feline roommate get their teeth brushed After our vet informed us that there was plaque buildup in our catrsquos teeth we got to work to search for the perfect brush And we found a softbristled finger brush like they use for babies You can slide your index finger into it squeeze on the toothpaste and give it a go Donrsquot concentrate on brushing massage the gums insteadmdashthe latter gets to the plaque automatically and our cat seemed to find it more tolerable and less intrusivehttpsamzneudiCgRUiXBantering with the SOCouples facing rushed conversations or awkward silences on video calls caused by being on different timezones and longdistances can try bantering instead Banters is an online game that helps partners learn more about each other and strike up interesting conversations based on specific topics The game has decks of virtual cards which throw up different prompts to start and keep a conversation going which is perfect for when you want to know more about your love interest but just canrsquot go beyond lsquoWhatrsquos your favourite colourrsquo or the clicheacuted lsquoWhat are you doingrsquo Arranged in five levels of increasinglyprobing questions the decks prompt you to talk about fun things such as choosing between a superpower of talking to plants or animals or deeper questions that talk about fears and what the one expects from the other partner Swipe right on the card once both you and your partner have talked about a subject and you can of course go beyond what is asked to come up with questions of your own The next time yoursquore video calling someone and feel the silence begin to drop banter awaywithourscomgamesforcouplesHard muscles soft approachIf you are a fitness enthusiast or even someone mildly interested in fitness and use social media regularly chances are that the algorithm will throw up posts by influencers that are as a rule full of impossible comparisons accompanied by condescending messages like ldquoWhatrsquos your excuserdquo Or there will be trainers who go around looking for pictures of food and commenting on them about the high calorific value and how you are inviting certain death by eating it Nerd Fitness an initiative that calls itself a ldquorebellionrdquo describes itself at the ldquomost caring online fitness community in the galaxyrdquo Enough to make us stop browsing and take notice because of the refreshingly supportive and nonjudgemental approach The home page has a quiz with simple questions that help set the agenda for their online courses The free articles section has a curation of write ups about fitness nutrition and mindset all written in simple languagenerdfitnesscomWord finder for brain fogWe all go through that particular day when our brains just donrsquot brain as they should and it feels like therersquos a fog in your mind when you try to grasp for that one synonym ofhellip derelict Decrypt Chirag Mehtarsquos Tip of My Tongue website launched in 2007 was way ahead of its time The website does what your brain forgets to do sometimesmdashperform a complex search of all the words that sound similar to the one you canrsquot remember This writer was grasping and groping for a word that sounded similar to lsquoderelictrsquo and which had some variation of the word lsquocryptrsquo in it A Google search yielded nothing Thatrsquos when Tip of My Tongue came in handy we simply typed in the starting syllables of the word de and any possible letters it could contain cre and were presented with a list of words that included decreet decrepitate and the elusive word we were hunting formdashdecrepit SuccesschiragprojectstipofmytongueSmorgasbord of historyCharacterised today by the noise of banging buzzers and the cries of inmates solitary confinement was originally developed from Quaker notions about the redemptive power of silence envisioned as a humane alternative to the punitive violence of late18th century jailsrdquo says the introduction and wersquore hooked The article in question traces the origins of the concept of solitary confinement in American prisons It is hosted on The Public Domain Review PDR an online journal of essays based on publicly available material and our current addiction PDRrsquos articles are also accompanied by great visual elements This article for instance includes an 1827 illustration of the under construction Philadelphia penitentiary a handpainted lithograph of it made in 1833 and a photograph of imprisoned Mormon polygamists taken in 1899 PDR is a labyrinth of information to get lost in on a slow day at work How do you think we found it in the first placepublicdomainrevieworgCurated by Gautam S Mengle Christalle Fernandes and Arpika Bhosale