Ideally, the prospect of saving lives and the personal satisfaction of helping others would be motivation enough to get us to donate blood regularly. But the Red Cross knows that while we can sometimes be driven by altruistic motives, at other times…
Lees meerEvery day is a new thing with Twitter. Recently, the site lumped verified users and Twitter Blue users together so no one can tell them apart (at least not without an extension). And now Twitter replaced its iconic bird logo with, of all things, Dog…
Lees meerThe first time I ordered a Blizzard and the employee asked me to flip it upside down, I reacted with a combination of fear, anger, and even disgust. That this person would tell me to risk my ice cream treat for a marketing gimmick! This month, Dairy…
Lees meerSorry Android users, this deal is for the people who like to overpay for their phones. McDonald’s is currently offering a free six piece order of Chicken McNuggets when you spend at least a dollar while using Apple Pay to check out on the McDonald’s…
Lees meerTree sap can get on your clothes, car, shoes, deck furniture, and countless other places you might not expect it. Here’s how to clean it off.Read more...
Lees meerAirDrop has been a source of pride for Apple users for more than a decade now, and a sore point for many who want a simple solution for sharing files between Windows and Android. But after years of struggling with different standards and technologi…
Lees meerIf you’ve spent any time on social media this week, you’ve probably see tons of memes in which people have photoshopped themselves (or anyone else, from Succession characters to Lydia Tár to Donald Trump) into a poster for Greta Gerwig’s upcoming Ba…
Lees meerWireless earbuds, like AirPods, are all the rage. But as convenient as these tiny headphones are, they have a fatal flaw: When the batteries degrade, it is extremely difficult to replace them, and stores like Apple won’t do it for you, either. When …
Lees meerWhen you shop for a swimsuit for your kid, don’t buy them a blue one. The simple reason: The color can make it difficult, even impossible, to see them underwater.Read more...
Lees meerWhen your phone’s screen breaks or your laptop stops holding a charge, your first instinct might be to take it to the company that produced it—they made the thing, so they should be trusted to fix it. While that isn’t necessarily wrong, it’s not alw…
Lees meerFrom the most thorough travel plans, to excruciatingly detailed journals, to elaborate to-do lists: My life motto is that you have a goal, your goal needs a spreadsheet. And when your goal is to manage your money better, a customized spreadsheet can…
Lees meerBack in my college days, my roommate and I frequently ordered something we called a “hangover pizza.” There was nothing remarkable about the pizza. It was almost always a pepperoni pizza from Papa John’s, because we loved the garlic sauce, but also …
Lees meerMatzo crunch is a sweet treat that’s all about the texture. As the name implies, it’s a crunch-fest. Between the crisp, airy matzo, melty chocolate and crackling caramel, there’s never a dull moment (in your mouth). The beauty of this Passover-frien…
Lees meerPackaged, processed, and semi-prepared foods are convenient and economical, but sadly, cooking with peel-apart biscuits and microwaveable pastas has endured a host of disparaging titles, including “cheap,” “low-class,” or “gross,” depending on who y…
Lees meerThere are not many handheld dishes that are socially acceptable to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner that give you the variety in ingredients and space for creativity that burritos do (except maybe a sandwich?). And with national burrito day comi…
Lees meerThe hopeful, heroic people you see above are the crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will fly by the moon in November 2024. Artemis III, pl…
Lees meerFish has a reputation for being hard to cook, but it’s easier to deal with than a lot of other proteins, especially if you consider speed to be a benefit. The main concerns when cooking fish are overcooking it and, if it has skin, getting the skin t…
Lees meerSometimes it’s important to be honest with yourself. Do you really want to pursue that fitness goal, or are you feeling pressured into it? Do you really have the time for this new exercise program, or will you ditch it as soon as life gets busy? But…
Lees meerWhether you deliberately ignore certain bad spending habits or you’ve fallen prey to a larger trend of lifestyle creep, it’s easy to lose track of where some of your cash is going. We’ve previously covered how many sources like to overstate the impa…
Lees meerHip thrusts are a great exercise if you want to work on your glutes (aka butt muscles). We even recommended them in 2019 as the best butt exercise you’re not doing. Well, now you’re doing them, right? And you’re probably annoyed at how much trouble …
Lees meerHave you noticed how more businesses are asking for tips these days? If you’re buying a coffee, you can’t pretend you don’t notice the tip jar like you could in the old days of 2017. The rise of point-of-sale digital kiosk transactions means you hav…
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