There is one nightmare that rattles every traveling parent and makes them sweat their sheets at night: your child becoming that child on a flight who won’t stop crying, yelling, or kicking the seat in front of them. In a recent survey of British parents, nearly one-third said they wouldn’t take their child on a flight longer than three hours because of this fear.

But there’s one simple, low-tech line of defense on which savvy parents rely. Rather than stimulate a child with an iPad or movies on the seatback entertainment system, a majority of well-prepped parents say they never board flights without notebooks, pencils and crayons.

Read more at Coastal Living.

Just because everyone else thinks January is grey and miserable, it doesn’t have to be (and don’t get us started on Blue Monday!). Whether you want to read about what’s going on in the brain, what makes people happy, or just how to be happy, we’ve gathered six science books that are sure to bring a smile to your face.

Read more at Science Focus.

Anyone looking to curb their bad snacking habits could have a new technique at their disposal: a new study shows that breathing in fatty food smells for more than two minutes is enough to put people off a high-calorie meal.

While the first sniff of a fat-heavy snack is likely to whet your appetite, the new research shows prolonged exposure to the smell actually works as a deterrent – and it could offer a new method of keeping you or your kids on a healthier diet.

Read more at Science Alert.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg acknowledged at a conference in Germany on Sunday that the social network had a rough 2018 and that "we need to do better to protect people's data," CNBC reports.

Why it matters: 2019 will be the year Facebook continues to apologize. As Axios' Scott Rosenberg previously reported, 2018 was going to be the year CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally fixed Facebook, but it became Zuckerberg's apology tour.

Read more at Axios.

The majority of Canadians aren’t happy with their paycheque.

A recent report by job site Indeed found that 83 per cent of Canadians are dissatisfied with their salaries, and more than half planned on asking their bosses for a raise.

Read more at Global News.

Labor will require companies bidding on government contracts to demonstrate opportunities for local employees and work for Australian-based firms, part of a plan to share the benefits of a $50 billion annual procurement spend.

Read more at AFR.

Stock market volatility be damned, people are still finding the money to spend on lavish cruises.

Norwegian Cruise Line Chief Financial Officer Mark Kempa told Yahoo Finance that booking trends have remained strong this year. Further, Kempa said ships are continuing to exert pricing power.

Read more at Yahoo Finance.

Is President Trump really going to cut the number of Made in China items subject to tariffs? Judging by the headlines on Friday, someone in Washington is lobbying hard for the president to do so.

The WSJ started it. They reported that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was angling for an easing of tariffs. It sent Asian markets higher despite a subsequent denial from the Treasury Department.

Read more at Forbes.

If you're worried about how your investments will fare during a government shutdown, you shouldn't be, at least if you're in your portfolio for the long haul.

But that doesn't mean that even investors who don't invest specifically in potentially affected companies or sectors that rely on government revenue like IT, aerospace, and defense won't feel ripple effects in the short-term. The Office of Management and Budget reported the government shutdown of 2013 slowed overall economic growth by 0.4 percent during the fourth quarter of the year.

Read more at US News.

Where people live, how they grow up and who they are genetically all have a hand in shaping health outcomes – though genetics may have an edge as a health influencer, according to a massive new study of twins in the U.S.

The findings, published this week in Nature Genetics, indicate that the nature-versus-nurture debate yields no simple answer: While both genetic and environmental factors can play a significant role in determining whether someone has a disease, how much weight each holds depends on the type of health condition.

Read more at US News.