This week I learned the trick to getting someone to do you a favor, and more

A grocer helps a woman carry her purchases

(Image credit: 169/George Marks/Ocean/Corbis)

By Lauren Hansen

published 7 January 2016

This is apparently the best way to ask someone for a tiny favor (New York Magazine)

Airbus' new planes feature technology to ease jet lag (Quartz)

Horses may have had stripes like zebras until humans came along (Tech Insider)

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Lauren Hansen produces The Weekâ€™s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.