It’s nice to pack a little treat for yourself as you’re getting ready for a vacation. Maybe that’s a snack for the road, or an outfit you never wear at home but that will be perfect at your destination. And sometimes it’s a book you’re excited to re…
Lees meerOut of all the things I’ve put in my waffle iron, cheese is probably my favorite. Pressing brie, cheese curds, halloumi, and the like between the hot, divoted grates melts it while creating crispy and crunchy peaks and valleys, for a pleasing textur…
Lees meerThis Friday is April 1, April Fools’ Day, the annual holiday that celebrates pranking, hoaxes, and all manner of jack-a-napes and tomfoolery. But why? Where did this faux-holiday come from? Why do we do this to each other, and when will we finally j…
Lees meerIf you like planets, this is your week. Five of the solar system’s most celebrated satellites—Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, and Mars— will appear all at once, lined up right with the moon.Read more...
Lees meerAnother new month, another raft of promising-sounding original TV series coming to Prime Video, to be thought about for exactly five minutes and then forgotten forever, probably. (I’m kidding, sort of—I definitely heard people talking about Daisy Jo…
Lees meerImpossible Foods is voluntarily recalling certain imitation chicken products after they received reports that “small pieces of wood” were found in them. According to Impossible Foods, 22 lots of frozen Impossible chicken nuggets produced by their co…
Lees meerI am a bit of a grease hoarder, a habit I come by honestly. My grandmother kept a fairly substantial crock of the bacon grease right next to the stove, and every day she would top it off with the fat that rendered out that morning’s bacon. (I’m sure…
Lees meerOne of my favorite types of dinner is snack-feast dinner. My boyfriend and I will make two or three piles of different small snacks. The lineup might include gyoza, baba ganoush and bread, or mini meatball and lettuce wraps. The point is to have sma…
Lees meerLike with yo-yo dieting when you try to “eat healthier,” it’s easy to find yourself trapped in a cycle of unhealthy habits with money, too. And like your relationship with dieting, your relationship with your finances runs deep—it’s never as simple …
Lees meerGetting rid of stuff can be really hard, even if you’re not exactly a hoarder. It’s so hard for so many of us, in fact, that scientists have studied why that is—and how to overcome an aversion to decluttering our lives. Just in time for spring clean…
Lees meerNo one wants the IRS to contact them. You hope to deal with them once a year at tax time, without worrying about audits or mistakes on your numbers. So, if one day, an email from the Internal Revenue Service shows up in your inbox, you’re bound to t…
Lees meerIt’s been 41 days since Apple last issued a software update for your iPhone. How have you survived in the interim? (Hopefully, you updated to iOS 16.3.1 right away, since it came with serious security patches for an actively exploited zero-day vulne…
Lees meerIt’s pretty clear by now that ChatGPT is not good at being creative, understanding a subject area, or pretty much anything else we associate with “intelligence,” artificial or otherwise. As I noticed when I tried to use it as a personal trainer:Read…
Lees meerAccording to the National Fire Protection Associations, there were 51% fewer home fires in the U.S. in 2020 than in 1980. That’s encouraging, but it’s just not good enough for me, America—there are still an estimated 356,500 home fires per year in t…
Lees meerAfter you finish spring cleaning, you might wonder what to tackle next. Now that you’ve cleaned up, reorganized, and decluttered, you might find that it’s time for a little redecorating—but where should you begin? You can start by clearing away all …
Lees meerI have never worked in a professional kitchen, but I have had relations with several people who have, and I’ve enjoyed a few brief glimpses into that world. These glimpses were rendered somewhat blurry by shift drinks, but the thing that blew my min…
Lees meerI was once this close to buying an entirely new refrigerator when ours stopped working. As I remember it, we had a power outage during a storm, and everything except the fridge came back online just fine. We couldn’t find anything obviously wrong wi…
Lees meerPhone calls sound like crap. They sound better than they used to, but if you need to rely on a special alphabet system for separating B’s from D’s, it’s not looking great. A new iPhone feature aims to tackle this problem by boosting your voice and r…
Lees meerBaked oats are the breakfast cake you didn’t know you needed. Barring a smidge of baking powder, you don’t use anything other than what you’d normally add to an average bowl of hot oatmeal. Finally, oatmeal that doesn’t totally suck. But there’s al…
Lees meerThis week’s Out-of-Touch Guide is a look at the widely different ways technology affects youth culture. On one end of the spectrum, constant connectedness to devices is leading to ridiculous trends like eating dog food and plastic candy wrappers. O…
Lees meerI’m not surprised Paramount+ is launching a Grease TV series. I’m just surprised it hadn’t happened already. Glee premiered nearly 15 years ago; how has it taken this long to revive the OG story of peppy kids singing about their high school troubles…
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