I primarily associate graham crackers with cheesecake and after-school snacks. Traditionally, I have not associated them with meatballs, let alone ham balls, an Iowan delicacy I learned about just a few days ago.Read more...
Lees meerWhile once unthinkable, tech companies are starting to play nice with one another. No longer are ecosystems so walled off that it becomes impossible to have an Android and a Mac, or an iPhone and a PC. In fact, Microsoft now allows you to sync your …
Lees meerIf you have a grass lawn on your property, you already know how much they suck. Grass is fragile, fickle, and expensive to maintain. Lawns suck your time and energy and are pretty much ecological disasters in many ways, ranging from water use to the…
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Lees meerIf you haven’t already turned on your heat for the first time this year, you’ll probably have to do it soon. Before you do, you should give your radiators a good cleaning—and the easiest way to do it involves little more than a hair dryer.Read more.…
Lees meerThe world is so full of dangers we can’t outrun—tornados, bears, bullets—that you might be asking, “Why did I buy these expensive running shoes anyway?” But don’t lose hope: Running away isn’t the answer in most dangerous situations, but there are a…
Lees meerCOVID vaccine boosters were updated this fall: Pfizer for ages 12 and up, Moderna for ages 18 and up. Now, younger kids can join in. The FDA announced today that both companies’ boosters have been authorized for ages 5 and up. The CDC also issued an…
Lees meerYou know by now that the White House announced a sweeping plan to forgive the student loan debt of millions of Americans—today, a U.S. district judge could decide to temporarily block Biden’s student loan forgiveness program from taking effect. In t…
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Lees meerNow that you know the best time to carve your pumpkins so they won’t rot before Halloween, it’s time to move on to the next essential chapter in jack-o-lantern maintenance: How to keep them from becoming squirrel carnage and ruining the carefully c…
Lees meerGarage doors are generally built to last, and most of them will keep functioning for up to 30 years. But once they start to wear out, an old or broken garage door can cause a range of issues, including security problems. Once you’ve decided to repla…
Lees meerMicrowaves are convenient. Too convenient, perhaps. So convenient that some of us are suspicious of them. When these common appliances were new on the kitchen scene, there were objections to the supposedly unnatural way they heat food—remember that …
Lees meerIf you’ve been in a job for a while without moving to the next level—despite your boss’s many promises of an eventual promotion—you may start to feel as though you are actually being strung along. Maybe your boss simply wants to drag more work out o…
Lees meerHalloween is synonymous with sugar, and overloading cookies with chocolate, gummy worms, and sugar eyeballs is par for the course. But after your fifth dozen-batch of cookies laden with orange buttercream, it’s reasonable to want to give the butter …
Lees meerIt only took Apple a decade or so, but you can finally pin tabs in Safari on your iPhone and iPad. The feature was worth the wait: When you close all tabs, it won’t clear the pinned tabs. By effect, you can turn your frequently visited websites int…
Lees meerFootball season is well underway, and it just so happens to coincide with Halloween, so some adorably morbid, shareable snacks are in order. Save your ordinary pigs in blankets for later and make some Halloween mummy piglets instead—complete with sl…
Lees meerFreezing is, as we all know, a great way to cut down on food waste. Storing food in the freezer pauses the clock, so to speak, for at least a few months, which is better than the few days or weeks we usually get from storing fresh foods in the fridg…
Lees meerWhen you’re overcoming the cold or flu, you can get trapped in a hellish cycle of needing sleep to recover, but losing sleep due to lingering symptoms. Even after your cough has disappeared during the day, it often creeps back at night—making you (a…
Lees meerIf you want to take a cross-country road trip filled with scary places for Halloween, read on. The ten locations here are spread across our whole, terrifying country from California to New Jersey and are haunted by forces like institutional cruelty,…
Lees meerLately, my TikTok algorithm has served me a series of videos featuring awesome games from indie developers I otherwise wouldn’t have heard of. These titles aren’t even finished yet: Some have release dates, others have demos, while still others live…
Lees meerBlack Friday, Cyber Monday, Super Saturday, Amazon Prime Day: The retail industry keeps making up unofficial holiday deal days to give us more excuses to spend our money ever earlier and more often. Now it seems we might have a new trend started by …
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