Last week, the FDA announced a change to how the abortion medication mifepristone may be prescribed—one that’s been a long time coming. Before the rule change, you couldn’t get the pills from your neighborhood pharmacy, as you would with any other d…
Lees meerI enjoy collecting vintage kitchen stuff, including beautiful teak cheese domes and serving boards. They look nice, especially the domes, but they do not smell nice. Not at all. The best cheese is a cheese with an assertive aroma, but while I enjoy…
Lees meerWinters can be dreadful. Waking up an hourly early to shovel snow and scrape windshields before your commute to work, only to be welcomed by a pitch dark sky by 5 p.m. can take a toll on anyone. But if free food cheers you up—particularly warm, toa…
Lees meerThe audiobook industry is in the cusp of a major change, with a new technology from Apple using AI-narrated features that promises to make audiobook production more accessible to independent and indie publishers, according to Apple’s website. This m…
Lees meerA wire rack is a pretty essential baking tool. Beyond cooling cookies, it’s indispensable when decorating. It allows the chocolate on a truffle to drip down and away, creating an evenly coated candy; and it holds your cakes and pastries off the coun…
Lees meerChatGPT took the internet by storm late last year, proving that AI was a lot further along than many of us realized. You can use ChatGPT to write an essay, plan your recipes for the week, tell you a story, code you an app, really anything you can th…
Lees meerWindows 7 launched in October of 2009. Barack Obama was president, Avatar was soon to hit movie theaters, and swine flu was officially declared a global pandemic. The world has changed a lot since then (for example, Avatar 2 is set in the water inst…
Lees meerFoundation cracks can be the stuff of nightmares for homeowners. They conjure visions of excessive repair bills or worse–turning a once-functional structure into a teardown. But not all foundations are equal, and not all foundation cracks are either…
Lees meerAdulting has never been easy, but since March 2020, we’ve all been struggling with additional stress.The pandemic introduced a slew of new things to deal with, from ramped up anxiety to extreme isolation, and even though we’re all pretending things …
Lees meerThere was a time I ignored—and even avoided—the rotating cash back bonus categories on my credit card, sure that any rewards wouldn’t be worth the trouble of keeping track of all the categories. That cash back was simply a little extra money each mo…
Lees meerNot all coffees are created equal. You already know this if you’ve been brewing your own for more than a few cups’ time: Coffee beans vary wildly in taste, strength, and even caffeine content. But even how you brew your coffee changes its strength.R…
Lees meerIf you have fitness resolutions but would rather stay away from the gym crowds, you might want to browse some deals for at-home gym equipment. Here are some of our favorites right now.Read more...
Lees meerYou may have noticed chatter about a new app called Tame. While dating apps keep popping up like weeds—and infesting our social feeds with ads—this one is actually getting buzz...but not all positive.Read more...
Lees meerThese days, iPhones are huge. Aside from the minis (which Apple no longer makes), most iPhones are difficult to properly use with one hand—and some even with two. If you’ve recently switched to a larger iPhone and are struggling to adapt to its size…
Lees meerIf you ordered a “baked potato” at a restaurant and were served a Yukon Gold, you’d probably be a little confused. Baked potatoes—“jacket potatoes” in the UK—are canonically Russets. But sometimes canon is worth fucking with.Read more...
Lees meerAlmost everyone experiences a layoff at least once in their career. Layoffs almost always feel personal and shake our confidence, but it’s extremely rare that people get laid off because of their performance. More often, company leaders are evaluati…
Lees meerIn an age of fake news and casual disinformation, it’s reassuring, in a sense, to know that we can still be surprised and/or amused by falsehoods. Enter freshman Congressman George Santos, a Long Island Republican who, it turns out, isn’t capable of…
Lees meerWikipedia is “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”—it says so right on the homepage. But editing Wikipedia articles can be pretty intimidating, especially for newbies. If you’re curious about editing and don’t know where to start, great news:…
Lees meerGlass may be recyclable, but sometimes it’s tempting to keep old wine bottles around for the aesthetic, the memories, or a little of both. If you have a tendency to hang onto your empty wine bottles, they don’t have to sit around collecting dust—the…
Lees meerStaying focused in a world of nonstop work emails and social media notifications is a never-ending challenge. As much as we talk about the importance (and difficulty) of sustained, deep focus, there are other types of attention, all of which have th…
Lees meerI grew up in upstate New York without a garage, so I consider myself fairly skilled in the art of car de-icing—or so I thought. Ice storms have become more common in Portland since I moved here over a decade ago, and with each storm I get less confi…
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