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GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Stop Nodding Along and Go Get Your Hearing Tested

The test takes twenty minutes in a soundproof booth, and it tells you things about your brain and your marriage that you can't guess at.

When one ear goes dead overnight, you have about 72 hours

How to read your own audiogram, line by line

Two squiggly lines, a couple of symbols and one dip at 4,000 Hz tell you most of what you need to know about your ears.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

The hearing you've got left is all the hearing you get

Hair cells don't grow back. A few dollars of foam and thirty seconds of technique will save you from asking your kids to repeat themselves at forty-five.

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GuideBRO SeniorsDean Shaw27 Sept 20267 min

Your Phone Came Set Up for Someone Else's Eyes and Ears

Bigger text, louder calls and fewer fake alarms are already built into your phone. It takes about twenty minutes and a pen.

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Family6 min read

Keep ideology out of the classroom without becoming that parent

Most of your leverage is a calendar, a paper trail, and being the parent the front office doesn't dread hearing from.

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How often do you see your closest friends?

GuideCivicsMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

How to Watch Your Statehouse Like Somebody Who Gets Paid To

A state legislature can pass a law in eleven weeks while you're looking the other way. The calendar, the chair, and the two minutes that matter.

GuideBRO SeniorsMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Your first month with hearing aids, and all that noise

The turn signal sounds like a jackhammer and your own voice sounds like a barrel. Both fix themselves, if you do the four weeks right.

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GuideTradesCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

How to Save Your Knees, Back and Hearing on the Job

Hearing loss is permanent, kneeling on concrete is a slow injury, and the back you wreck at 30 bills you at 50. Here's how to stay in the trade.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideMusicSam Ortiz23 Sept 20265 min

How to Take Your Family to a Concert and Actually Enjoy It

Ear muffs, curfew math, and the kind of shows that work with a seven-year-old in tow. Plus the mistake most dads make at the merch table.

GuideBRO SeniorsMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

What Actually Keeps Your Mind Sharp After Sixty

Crossword apps aren't the answer. Your blood pressure, your hearing and your legs are doing most of the work.

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GuideBRO SeniorsMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Nobody's mumbling, and you've known it for years

Men sit on hearing loss for the better part of a decade. What it's costing you, what the audiogram actually measures, and how to buy without getting fleeced.