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Redeem now You can change your tip on Instacart for up to a day after the order is delivered. Both the Instacart mobile app and website let you change the tip before or after you order. The default tip on Instacart is five percent or the last custom percentage you chose, whichever is higher. The drivers that deliver your Instacart orders to you are gig workers, and mainly paid through tips. [Read More]

Talk about a signature style! We already knew Anna Wintour had a trademark hairdo—the Vogue editor always rocks her sleek bob and bangs—but it turns out the fashionista also has a pair of go-to heels . One look at photos from her recent trips to New York and London Fashion Week, and it's clear Wintour is wedded to her nude Manolo Blahnik slingbacks. And, as it turns out, she's been obsessed with them since the '90s. [Read More]

After enduring the highs and lows of living with cancer for two months, Martina Navratilova, the tennis legend, is finally cancer-free. And to celebrate the perfect timing and recovery with her good friend, Chris Evert, the 59-time Grand Slam champion has devised a fantastic celebration idea that even her fans will appreciate. Back in January, the tennis star was diagnosed with two cancerous growths. And during the past two months, she has given her all while turning the tables on the life-threatening cancer diagnosis. [Read More]

Generations ago, the American Indian Osage tribe was compelled to move. Not for the first time, white settlers pushed them off their land in the 1800s. They made their new home in a rocky, infertile area in northeast Oklahoma in hopes that settlers would finally leave them alone. As it turned out, the land they had chosen was rich in oil, and in the early 20th century, members of the tribe became spectacularly wealthy. [Read More]

Jerry Moss, who turned A&M Records into one of America’s leading independent record labels with his business partner Herb Alpert, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 88. “They truly don’t make them like him anymore and we will miss conversations with him about everything under the sun. [Read More]

Book of the dayFictionReviewIreland in the 14th century, where greed, madness and the Black Death come together for a darkly comic debutOisín Fagan’s first novel is a dark and bloody tale, well leavened with bone-dry humour, and with a dramatic climax that has about it the flavour of a Jacobean tragedy (or Kurosawa, for the more cinematically inclined). The medieval Ireland in which the book is set was a complicated and contending mix of native Irish, or Gaels; long-settled English, many of Norman origin; and more recent English settlers. [Read More]

Neuroscience This article is more than 8 years oldScience of screaming: acoustics that trigger our fear centre identifiedThis article is more than 8 years oldStudy on human screaming at New York University reveals how rapid rate of wide unperceived volume changes or ‘roughness’ elicits emotional response Human screams have a unique acoustic property that triggers the brain’s fear centre more effectively than almost any other sound, scientists have found. After testing a variety of noises, including human speech and musical instruments, the only other sounds that appeared to activate the brain in a similar way were car alarms and police sirens, the study found – perhaps explaining why they are so unpleasant to listen to and almost impossible to ignore. [Read More]

Vinyl wordMusicWhen the moon hits your eye like a bigga pizza pie...That's Amore! Joe Queenan investigates the origins of Dean Martin's cheesy hitRare is the music buff who feels a need to question the genesis of a song containing the lyrics: "When the stars make you drool, just like pasta fazool." Like dental floss, Belgium or, for that matter, pasta, such songs are viewed as frothy confections that slip into existence, amoeba-style, at some juncture and hang around forever - in gangster movies, in commercials, in films starring Cher - without anyone ever devoting much time to a comprehensive investigation of their origins. [Read More]