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☆ Love Patterns? Try This Design Trick to Pull Any Room Together
  + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Kate Morgan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
THE HUMAN BRAIN loves a good pattern. Evolutionarily speaking, we’re hard-wired to recognize repetitive shapes. From a design standpoint, patterns can also help our homes feel harmonic. Applying the same one to multiple elements in a room pulls your décor together. We asked design pros for some tips on nailing the technique.
☆ Have Heirlooms You Want to Pass Down? Make Your Kids Download This App
  + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Kate Morgan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
FAMILY JEWELS A new class of apps has emerged to help you catalog your belongings and preserve the stories that make them feel like heirlooms. Photo: Getty ImagesWHILE PLANNING a move, Kathy Luck’s elderly parents walked her through their Houston home, recounting the origins of each knickknack and piece of furniture acquired over a lifetime of travel and collecting. “I remember thinking I’d love to share these family stories with my siblings, and I’m sure all the grandchildren would be interested,” said Luck, 65, “but if I called everybody on the phone right this minute, nobody would care.”
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☆ Gen Zers Are Snapping Up Flip Phones. They Might Be Onto Something.
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Kate Morgan | Photographs F. Martin Ramin The Wall Street Journal | Styling Lizzy Wholley | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WHEN SAMMY Palazzolo goes out, people constantly ask to see her phone. In late 2022, Ms. Palazzolo and some of her dorm-mates at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were bemoaning their smartphone addictions. “We were talking about how we [felt] like slaves to our phones, like robots who keep scrolling and scrolling, even when we’re out at parties.” The group hatched a plan to do something about it. The next day, they went flip-phone shopping at Walmart . Ms. Palazzolo ended up with a $40 AT&T Cingular Flex.
☆ Gen Zers Are Snapping Up Flip Phones. They Might be Onto Something.
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Kate Morgan | Photographs F. Martin Ramin The Wall Street Journal | Styling Lizzy Wholley | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WHEN SAMMY Palazzolo goes out, people constantly ask to see her phone. In late 2022, Ms. Palazzolo and some of her dorm-mates at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were bemoaning their smartphone addictions. “We were talking about how we [felt] like slaves to our phones, like robots who keep scrolling and scrolling, even when we’re out at parties.” The group hatched a plan to do something about it. The next day, they went flip-phone shopping at Walmart . Ms. Palazzolo ended up with a $40 AT&T Cingular Flex.
☆ Forget Google Maps: Why Paper Map Sales Are Booming
  + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Kate Morgan | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
GET LOST The Map Shop, in Charlotte, N.C., sells a wide variety of unique geographic charts. This one shows all the rivers in the U.S., with each color representing a different river basin. IN THE 1880s, Iraqi archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam found a small carved tablet with an image of Babylon at its center, surrounded by a vast salt sea. Historians consider this tablet, roughly 2,500 years old, the earliest existing map of the world. Even “modern” maps look quaint today, when apps like Google Maps put practically every intersection in the world a click away.
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