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How to Change Your iPhone’s Charging Sound

How to Change Your iPhone’s Charging Sound

Apple offers many customization options for its devices, including three different ways to change your iPhone’s default charging sound. Change the Charging Sound on Your iPhone There are three methods you can use to change your iPhone’s charging sound. You can choose to use a whole song, a part of a song, or text that Siri will say every time you charge your iPhone. These tips work no matter how you charge your iPhone. Before we begin, it’s important to note that you cannot literally change your iPhone’s charging sound. The new sound is just another sound that plays after the default sound. However, if you continue reading, we’ll show you a shortcut to mute the default sound so that all you hear when you plug and unplug your phone is your custom sound. To change the charging sound on iOS, you’ll need to use the built-in Shortcuts app. There are many handy iPhone automations you can create in the Shortcuts app, and changing the plug-in sound of your iPhone is just one of them. …

How Often Should You Really Change Your Bra?

How Often Should You Really Change Your Bra?

Good news for denim lovers: Which? recently released an infographic about how often to wash your jeans, and it seems they require even less care than I expected. Still, it was bad news for T-shirt fans (apparently, they need washing after none wear) and dress lovers (which last one to three wears). So what about bra wearers? Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but according to the publication, they need cleaning way more often than I expected. How often should you wash your bra? Per Which?, they need cleaning after every two to three wears. And yes, I am with the Instagram commenter who wrote: “Bras… that’s months, [not wears] right?” under their post. Sadly, though they don’t seem to be alone in giving the inconvenient advice (sigh). Speaking to Cleveland Clinic, dermatologist Dr Alok Vij, MD gave the same rough timeframe as Which? because “All the dead skin cells, oils and sweat trapped under your bra make for a cesspool of bacteria and yeast.” That can lead to rashes and …

Psychotherapy may change memories of childhood – here’s why practitioners should warn clients

Psychotherapy may change memories of childhood – here’s why practitioners should warn clients

One of the unfortunate legacies that my generation, gen X, has passed on to the millennials and gen Z, is the idea that therapy has no side effects. However, just like many other medical treatments, there can be negative effects. For example, in some cases psychotherapy can be linked with a worsening of psychiatric symptoms, increased anxiety and false memories. My team’s recent paper investigated the effect of evaluating a parent on the basis of their emotions and memories of those emotions in childhood. Our findings, which show these kinds of reappraisals can distort memories, may have implications for talking therapies that explore clients’ childhoods. Previous research has shown that as people’s thoughts change, their memory of emotions seems to do so too. In 1997 psychology professor Linda Levine found that people misremembered how they had felt when Ross Perot withdrew from the 1992 US presidential race, when they were asked to recall their emotions after the election. Psychologist Martin Safer found in his 2010 study that some people misremembered how much grief they felt …

Ofsted report cards are a superficial change – the inspectorate needs a culture shift

Ofsted report cards are a superficial change – the inspectorate needs a culture shift

Ofsted, England’s education inspectorate, has released proposals for a new approach to inspecting schools and other education providers. The proposals are now under consultation, with parents, teachers, education professionals and learners invited to share their views. These proposals mark the latest changes to Ofsted after the public outcry following the suicide of headteacher Ruth Perry in January 2023. The coroner’s report in December 2023 ruled that the Ofsted inspection had contributed to Perry’s suicide. But the proposals neglect key areas that we, having researched people’s experiences of Ofsted, believe should change. These include the behaviour of inspectors and the process of inspecting schools. Crucially, the proposal document emphasises the continuing importance and authority of Ofsted in raising achievement in the school system. And in a recent speech on the proposals, education secretary Bridget Phillipson said: “The improvements in inspection and accountability starting in the 90s have been instrumental for raising standards in our schools. With Ofsted’s role right at its heart. And to those who call for the abolition of a strong, independent, effective inspectorate, …

Surge in ocean heat is a sign climate change is accelerating

Surge in ocean heat is a sign climate change is accelerating

High sea temperatures contributed to stormy weather in California in late 2023 Kevin Carter/Getty Images The surge in ocean temperatures to record-breaking levels in 2023 and 2024 is a sign that the pace of climate change has accelerated, say researchers. Global ocean temperatures hit record highs for 450 days straight in 2023 and early 2024. Although some of the extra heat can be explained by an El Niño weather pattern emerging in the Pacific Ocean, about 44 per cent of the record warmth is down to the world’s oceans absorbing heat from the sun at an accelerating rate, according to Chris Merchant at the University of Reading, UK. Merchant and his colleagues used satellite data to analyse ocean warming over the past four decades, concluding that the rate of warming has more than quadrupled since 1985. The team says this rapid acceleration is down to a sharp change in Earth’s energy imbalance (EEI), a measure of how much heat is being trapped in the atmosphere. EEI has roughly doubled since 2010, causing the oceans to …

Princess Beatrice’s life in Cotswolds set to change following baby news

Princess Beatrice’s life in Cotswolds set to change following baby news

Despite growing up between Windsor and London with the rest of the royal family, Princess Beatrice made the decision to upsticks and relocate to the Cotswolds when she began building her own family. The 36-year-old, her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, and their daughter Sienna, three, live in Oxfordshire, with Edoardo’s son from his previous relationship, Wolfie, eight. Beatrice and Edoardo are also expecting their second child, due this spring. While Beatrice lives further away from her Berkshire-based parents, Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew, she still has support nearby, with her best friend, nutritionist Gabriela Peacock, who lives a short drive away from their Oxfordshire abode. © Getty ImagesPrincess Beatrice and Gabriela are close Gabriela and Beatrice are extremely close, with the nutritionist giving a rare insight into their friendship during an interview with HELLO! in November 2024, explaining how the fact that they were both pregnant at the same time was a special experience.”Bea spends a lot of time in the countryside now too, and she’s only a short drive away, so it’s super nice for us …

Emotions change our perception of time – as demonstrated on The Traitors

Emotions change our perception of time – as demonstrated on The Traitors

In the UK version of the TV show The Traitors, contestants were given five minutes to find as much gold as they could, put it into cages and hoist them before the time ran out. There was a catch though – they weren’t given any information about when the five minutes were up. Instead, they had to use their internal sense of time to decide when to end the task. Stopping the task too soon meant they collected fewer gold pieces. Stopping the task too late would mean all their gold would be discarded. Accurate timing was therefore the key to success – but interestingly, they chose to end the task after just three minutes. Why are we so spectacularly bad at judging time? Can you time a minute or an hour perfectly without using a clock? You may be surprised to realise you are not as good at this as you think. We don’t have a clock in our brains that keeps track of time perfectly. As a result, time can often feel like …

Meet Chonkus, a mutant microbe that could help fight climate change

Meet Chonkus, a mutant microbe that could help fight climate change

average: (in science) A term for the arithmetic mean, which is the sum of a group of numbers that is then divided by the size of the group. bacteria: (singular: bacterium) Single-celled organisms. These dwell nearly everywhere on Earth, from the bottom of the sea to inside other living organisms (such as plants and animals). Bacteria are one of the three domains of life on Earth. carbon: A chemical element that is the physical basis of all life on Earth. Carbon exists freely as graphite and diamond. It is an important part of coal, limestone and petroleum, and is capable of self-bonding, chemically, to form an enormous number of chemically, biologically and commercially important molecules. (in climate studies) The term carbon sometimes will be used almost interchangeably with carbon dioxide to connote the potential impacts that some action, product, policy or process may have on long-term atmospheric warming. carbon dioxide: (or CO2) A colorless, odorless gas produced by all animals when the oxygen they inhale reacts with the carbon-rich foods that they’ve eaten. Carbon dioxide also …

No, Biden Can’t Change the Constitution

No, Biden Can’t Change the Constitution

The president’s declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment is “the law of the land” doesn’t make it so. Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Sources: Allen J. Schaben / Getty and Bettmann / Getty. January 17, 2025, 3:08 PM ET Presidents typically spend their final days in the White House taking care of odds and ends: issuing pardons, signing some last executive orders, thanking staff. Joe Biden is doing all of those things—and also trying to change the Constitution on his way out the door. This morning, Biden declared on X that “the Equal Rights Amendment is now the law of the land.” Well, there you have it: The Constitution has a 28th amendment, and women’s rights have been enshrined across the country. Or not. Biden can’t change the Constitution, because the Constitution doesn’t allow him to. The fight for the ERA is older than the 82-year-old president, and it did not end with Biden’s social-media proclamation. The suffragist Alice Paul first proposed an equal-rights amendment in 1923. Nearly a half century later, in …