As you probably know, wonton wrappers are thin, delicate sheets of flour, water, and egg used to make top tier foods such as fried wontons, wonton soup, and crab rangoon (just to name a few icons). But the little squares can just as easily be droppe…
Lees meerYesterday, Walmart announced a new service to compete with Amazon Prime. The membership program, Walmart+, will be available to all customers on September 15. Here is everything we know about the service so far.Read more...
Lees meerHaters (people from New England) have said that grits are too “mushy,” but mush can be a glorious thing. Sometimes you don’t need texture or contrast; sometimes you just need something that’s warm, delicious, and scoopable. Sometimes (mornings), you…
Lees meerApple rolled out iOS 13.7 today. Update your device, and you’ll now be able to see if your state supports the COVID-19 Exposure Notifications Express system. More importantly, you’ll be able to opt-in to receiving these alerts without having to find…
Lees meerNo matter how fast medicine moves us towards treatments, preventive medicine will always be the most effective and cheapest way to keep healthy. In this post, we’ll run down some common women’s health screening tests, when you should get them, and w…
Lees meerI have made a lot of boxed mix brownies. Sometimes I make them according to the package instructions, but I usually make a few tweaks here and there, such as swapping out the vegetable oil for something fancier, or replacing the water with coffee.Re…
Lees meerWith pandemic that is especially dangerous to the elderly, older teens who want to help ensure that Election Day runs as successful as possible can sign up now to be poll workers on Nov. 3. The Poll Hero organization, founded and run primarily by co…
Lees meerSchools are opening, and inevitably at least some of them will close again as COVID-19 outbreaks are discovered among students and staff. There’s no federal system to track school outbreaks, but the National Education Association has been compiling …
Lees meerWe know—it’s highly unlikely that you don’t have access to Netflix, either through your own account or one from your roommates, friends, or family members.Read more...
Lees meerWith the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates low, many savers are feeling the sting in their savings accounts. CNBC reports high-yield savings accounts have slashed rates to record lows—leaving savers looking for alternatives. One option that has…
Lees meerA Razer Blade gaming laptop, an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate 3-month membership, a sale on X-Men Dorbz, a 48-pack of Energizer AAA batteries, an 800A Tacklife T8 jump starter, a Kyoku Damascus chef knife, a Bissell robot vacuum, and an AeroGarden Harvest…
Lees meerIf you’re a Facebook fan but hate its recent redesign, there’s hope. You can no longer revert back to “Old Facebook” simply by clicking a button in your settings menu, but you can install a Chrome extension that magically transforms the site, resto…
Lees meerAfter nearly three decades of eating (and making) shrimp cocktail, I have come to an inescapable conclusion: It is really hard to do better than Heinz cocktail sauce, especially if you add extra horseradish. I’ve tried fancier, more expensive brands…
Lees meerI love my smart speaker—as much as one can ever love a piece of privacy-stealing technology that only exists to gather information about you, I suppose—but that doesn’t mean I don’t find many things about it creepy, in a dystopian sort of way. And o…
Lees meerThere’s a stunningly wrong statistic being passed around, saying that the CDC “admitted” that only 6% of documented COVID-19 deaths were actually from the virus. This is wrong, and is the kind of thing that you can only conclude if you don’t know ho…
Lees meerNature knows best when it comes to, well, most things. If you’re looking for an answer to how to stay cool in the heat, protect yourself from pathogens or form long-term friendships, other living organisms have probably already found a solution—and …
Lees meerThose living in the northern hemisphere have a pretty exciting astronomical week coming up. Between the full moon, a meteor shower and the opportunity to get a glimpse at Mars, there is plenty to see in the night sky over the next several days. If s…
Lees meerI rarely reheat leftover pizza, simply because I love cold pizza so much. But this morning I woke up vaguely hungover, and that pair of cold, two-day-old Domino’s slices just didn’t seem that appealing. They were dry and kind of hard (I had not wrap…
Lees meerComing as a surprise to no one, 2020 has also brought with it a particularly intense wildfire season. So even if you’re not living somewhere that could be impacted by an “extremely active” hurricane season, you’re not in the clear in terms of natura…
Lees meerThe world lost a great actor this year, one who brought life to a remarkable range of remarkable Black figures. Chadwick Boseman died Friday, August 28 after a four-year battle with colon cancer—a battle that was kept from the public throughout the …
Lees meerFirst, our kids decided it was exciting to watch other kids “unbox” new toys or other items. Now, watching other people play video games—or do, basically, whatever—live online is the height of entertainment. That’s why the live-streaming platform Tw…
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