Not everyone is exchanging gifts this holiday season, but if you are, you may want to consider shopping at local small businesses. After eight months of the pandemic, our neighborhood shops and restaurants could our support more than ever. In fact, …
Lees meerSure, you’ll be able to squeeze in a slice of pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving after a big dinner. Or maybe, given that things will look a little different this year, you’ll skip the turkey and make a pie your main course. Either way, you’ll want to mak…
Lees meerI recently moved to a new apartment on a street that serves as an artery for commercial trucking in my area of Brooklyn. I’m particularly sensitive to noise pollution, and this permanent cacophony isn’t just caused by the rumble of big rigs, either:…
Lees meerTwenty-twenty hasn’t taken everything from us: Macy’s historic annual Thanksgiving day parade has somehow not been canceled this year. With safety precautions in place, the fully televised event will take place on schedule, as it has for nearly a ce…
Lees meerThe strict barbell overhead press is a glorious lift, but as we work on it this month, it’s good to know there are other options. Maybe you don’t have a barbell. Maybe you don’t have high enough ceilings to pull it off in the place where you lift. W…
Lees meerEveryone is focusing on the sad, bad parts of not having a proper Big Thanksgiving, but having fewer people at a Thanksgiving gathering means there are fewer people to argue with. This makes the dinner table a safer space, imbibement-wise, leaving y…
Lees meerThe Go SMS Pro texting app has over 100 million installations from the Google Play Store, but popularity doesn’t matter: You need to stop using it and delete it from your phone now. Cybersecurity firm Trustwave recently discovered a major security l…
Lees meeriPhone owners with the new iOS 14 can now enjoy a customized home screen with widgets and downloadable templates. Android users may feel that they are missing out on the opportunity to make their home screen look like Windows 95 or Animal Crossing, …
Lees meerYesterday, the Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani held a press conference and unintentionally redefined the notion of a public meltdown. Facing the cameras, Giuliani began to sweat, causing what many journalists and fascinated onlookers thought t…
Lees meerDuring a recent interview, Dolly Parton found herself answering a question that she has been asked countless times over several decades: Why doesn’t she have children? Sure, she has written more than 3,000 songs, provided nearly 150 million books fo…
Lees meerOf all the things that need to be cleaned in your home, your mattress is probably the one you think about the least. As long as you use a mattress cover and change the sheets regularly you should be fine right? Maybe not. Outside of sweat, skin flak…
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Lees meerRemember that old curse about living in “interesting times?” Well, we’re there, but I had no idea that interesting times would be so damn boring, though. While history-defining events are unfolding daily, I’m over here getting into making homemade p…
Lees meerThe ideal Pandemic Thanksgiving dessert is fancy enough to feel special while remaining as low-effort—and delicious—as humanly possible. This year, more than ever, you deserve freedom from complicated recipes that yield underwhelming results. You de…
Lees meerNext month, the classic mystery solving bunch The Hardy Boys is coming to Hulu. For you ‘80s and ‘90s babies, this is a TV adaptation of the longstanding children’s novel series, which dates back to the ‘20s... the 1920s. The books follow brothers F…
Lees meerWe’ve covered a bunch of anti-fog hacks here ever since masks became commonplace, but a doctor recently tweeted an even simpler one than folding the top of the mask, using a piece of tissue, or coating your lenses with anti-fog spray. It’s a band-ai…
Lees meerThere’s a school of thought in the United States that says the only practical path through higher education is to earn a degree that immediately makes money. Or, at least, one that forges the beginnings of a successful career. In a certain, siloed w…
Lees meerNvidia’s cloud streaming service, GeForce Now, is now live on iOS and iPadOS. It offers a browser-based format that allows it to circumvent some of Apple’s streaming restrictions, and the craftiness pays dividends. It’s a great way to streams games …
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Lees meerIf you’re still planning to go to some kind of in-person Thanksgiving event, otherwise known as a COVID feast, I’m not going to judge you. I will, however, do whatever I can to convince you that you’re making the wrong decision, and that includes se…
Lees meerCome Christmas day, we will officially be two Pixar films deep into quarantine.Way back in March, right before the pandemic made the idea of going to see a movie in the theater as laughable and ill-advised as trying to have a reasonable discussion a…
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