Beatles for free

ACT NATURALLY IF you can. The Beatles catalog will be available for streaming any time at all as of midnight tonight local time wherever you are, even back in the USSR. Christmas time (is here again)!

While Beatles music has previously made sporadic appearances on Pandora, this will be the first time it’s been available for streaming across the universe of on-demand music apps. Apple Music, Google Play, Spotify, Amazon Prime, Rhapsody, Slacker, Tidal, Deezer, and Microsoft Groove have come together, all together now, to offer Beatles tracks, whereas before you could find them practically nowhere, man.

To listen, all you need is love of classic Lennon and McCartney tunes. Well, okay, it’s not free as a bird; you do need a ticket to ride, but who doesn’t subscribe to at least one of those services by this point?

Actually, in fairness, access to the Beatles catalog might prompt a new sign-up revolution. After all, there hasn’t been a rock and roll music band this popular in my life—not even that lady, Madonna. If you need help! deciding whether you should enlist, go ahead and ask me why. I want to hold your hand through a day in the life of streaming the Beatles.

“Good day sunshine,” I’ll shout after a hard day’s night of dreaming about the vibrant harmonies of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. I’ll fire up Spotify or Google Music, type in the name of my favorite Beatles album, and get back some of the best music of the last century. From there I’ll let it be; putting the Beatles on shuffle seems wrong somehow. All things must pass in the order they intended. If I had Android Auto or CarPlay, I could drive my car and listen, too.

The Beatles back catalog is extensive enough that it could fill eight days a week, so you’ll have to be selective. But we can work it out! In fact, forget “we,” you know what to do: design your own magical mystery tour of music classics.

The timing’s also auspicious for those in search of a last-minute Christmas gift; you can’t buy me love, but you can buy me a Spotify subscription (or at least let me borrow your password). I mean, that’ll be the day—we don’t even know each other.

The only open question is whether a launch this prominent will cause any services to falter under the weight of streamers (hello, goodbye!). Don’t let me down, Spotify; I’ve been burned by HBO Go one too many times.

It’ll probably be fine. Besides, the important thing is that yesterday, you couldn’t stream Beatles songs on-demand. Tonight, I am the walrus you can.

Big Soda

A Coke-funded group at the University of Colorado that was supposed to study the impact of obesity — the Global Energy Balance Network — shut down unexpectedly late Monday, months after the group came under fire for blaming the nation’s growing waistline on lack of exercise — not sugary drinks.

Coke cut financial ties with the group and GEBN said on its website it ceased operations because of “resource limitations.”

Coca-Cola, which employs about 8,900 metro Atlantans in its hometown, declined to comment Tuesday.

“Like ‘big tobacco,’ ‘big soda’s’ true intentions have been unveiled by this effort to manipulate the science,” said Jim O’Hara, director of health promotion policy for the health advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest. “The real issue was not just about transparency, but scientific integrity.”

how to calm a crying baby

Dr. Hamilton has handled a lot of babies at his practice and has a tried and true technique for calming a crying baby that he uses to quiet infants during office visits. “Parents have learned it and have experienced great success at home,” he says in the video description, before demonstrating the four simple steps.

First, pick up the baby. Then:

1. Fold across the chest.
2. Secure arms gently.
3. Grasp diaper area.
4. Rock at a 45 degree angle. Gently shake their booty and rock them up and down.

Dr. Hamilton says this will work for the first 2 to 3 months after which the baby will probably get too heavy. If your baby doesn’t stop crying it could be that your baby is hungry or possibly not feeling well.