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It’s been a rough few years. In 2020, 20% of Americans either received therapy or medication to threat their mental health, and if you’re thinking it might be time to see a therapist or get your hands on some Xanax, you’re not alone. But getting appropriate, productive therapy can be a frustrating process, whether…Read more...

Most egg dishes feel at least a tiny bit glamorous. Soufflé omelettes, croque madames, salmon frittatas, and hefty, foil-wrapped BECs are breakfasts that make you feel like you’re the cool-kid in the room. Cooler than that kid with the perpetually wet boiled eggs in a bag, anyway. Boiled eggs are humble, but I’ll be…Read more...

Over time, normal wear-and-tear on kitchen appliances starts to take its toll, leaving our once-pristine ovens, dishwashers, and refrigerators with dings, dents, and scratches. Take that glass window on your oven door, for example. In addition to being covered in all types of food stains, they also have a tendency to…Read more...

Contrary to popular belief, the COVID-19 pandemic is not over. On top of that, BA.5, the current variant making the rounds, is highly transmissible, and tends to evade some of our protections against the virus when it comes to (re)infection. (Having said that, vaccines continue to provide protection against severe…Read more...

All the recent heat and humidity may be causing you to spend more time in the shower or bath than usual. And if you pay for water (or are concerned about conserving it), you may be wondering which is harder on your wallet (and the environment): Showering or bathing? Here’s what to know.Read more...

Whether you love or hate how a campfire smells in the moment—when you’re enjoying time outdoors with family or friends—you may not feel the same way about how your clothes and hair smell the next day. Or the next several days.Read more...

In the days before modern refrigerators and freezers, making and storing ice was an entire industry, and for a long time, having a few ice cubes to cool your drink was only something available to the wealthy. Of course, that’s no longer the case for most people—with many refrigerator/freezers now making ice…Read more...

One of the benefits of using wood to build furniture, structures, and other objects is its ability to be fastened together using materials like screws, nails, and glue, and techniques like dovetailing. And because wood is a natural material, when you’re working with lumber (as opposed to particle board), whatever you…Read more...

Just like your favorite video streaming apps, major gaming subscription services Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus add—and remove—new content each month.

A panic attack is a trauma response that typically occur in response to a certain trigger, like the sight of a person or object that was present during a traumatic moment. Sometimes, though, there may be no apparent explanation for a panic attack or negative shift in mood. It’s a frustrating, potentially scary…Read more...

If you’re searching for a way to combat the birthday blues, look no further. To start with, your day can be full of free breakfast, lunch, and dinner—and during all the moments in between, there are a handful of retailers that are also interested in spoiling you for a day. So if you’re looking to indulge in some good…Read more...

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A classic, textbook margarita is a perfect summer drink. It’s tart and boozy and just sweet enough—a true ride or die cocktail if there ever was one. But I cannot help but futz with things, even perfect things, because that is my nature. I fiddle and tweak and fuck about, because heaven forbid I experience the same…Read more...

The potent smell of cannabis comes from a unique combination of chemicals, many of which present in the resin excreted from the growing plant or extracted from a harvested plant. This resin is extremely hydrophobic, and can coat everything it comes into contact with— as many farmers and processors in goop-coated…Read more...

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Earlier this week, I invited you to revisit your childhood trauma with me, and as expected, many of you were happy to go along for the ride, sharing the movies you saw way, way before you should’ve been exposed to them, thus being scarred for life. But in a fun way!

If you’re traveling internationally, you’ll want to familiarize yourself with the different rideshare apps that are available in your destination country as part of your pre-departure planning. Uber is a popular option, but it’s usually not the only game in town. Different apps are coming and going all the time, so a…Read more...

Whether they’re toddlers, teenagers, or 23-year-olds, young people are disgusting. Old people are disgusting too of course, because being gross is the human condition. So let’s celebrate it by digging into the trends and topics fascinating internet youth this week: mucus fishing, vabbing, and most disgusting of all, h…Read more...

Following the stock market can feel like whiplash: It’s down and depressing, and then up and exciting, and back down again. But if you’ve been paying attention even a little bit over the last year or so, you probably know that the overall trend has been negative, and it’s generally not a good time to look at the…Read more...

A day off is reason enough to celebrate with a special breakfast. Whether it’s a typical Saturday with no obligations, or you’re observing a mid-week mental health day, you should put the “break” in “breakfast” with a tall stack of pancakes.

I have a feeling we’re going to be hearing a lot about grand juries in the coming months. Earlier this week, news broke that the U.S. Department of Justice brought former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff before a federal grand jury in D.C. in connection with the, uh, unpleasantness surrounding the 2020…Read more...

Stop paying for TV. I’m not just talking about cable: You can drop Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, and Disney+, and still be able to watch TV for free. Sure, you won’t be keeping up in the golden age of streaming, but you’ll have 24/7 no-cost entertainment in your living room, thanks to both antennas and internet TV. If…Read more...

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As a kid in the rural Midwest, I was accustomed to seeing people around me “rescue” injured birds, bring them into their homes, and care for them. The local vet even facilitated this by calling up certain families when a hurt bird was brought into his practice. We considered these birds lucky, Little-O…Read more...

In a post-pandemic world, food delivery services like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub have become ubiquitous. And even though we can go back out to restaurants now, it’s hard to deny the convenience of a warm, tasty dinner delivered straight to your door. In an effort to even further entice customers, a handful of…Read more...

With memories of (and the fallout from) the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 still painfully fresh for too many families, anxiety is high over recent economic fluctuations. The U.S. economy shrank again in the second quarter this year, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today, and many experts and everyday …Read more...

The question “What do I do with these watermelon rinds?” was answered long ago, and you probably already know the answer, especially if you’re from the South. Watermelon rinds become watermelon pickles, and the crisp, kind of flavorless scrap is rendered soft, tangy, and (often) a little spicy. But pickles aren’t the…Read more...

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If you’re ever looking for a demonstration of the adage “it’s expensive to be poor,” look at buying a car. If you’ve got your eye on a car that costs $35,000 with all fees included, and you have $35,000 in your bank account, that’s what you pay for the car. If you don’t have the cash, let’s say you put down $5,000 and…Read more...

An unusual cocktail ingredient is trending, and it’s not my amarena cherry syrup. (Yet.) It’s cheese. You already love it when paired with a drink, so why not include it directly in your libation? There’s a place in our coupe glasses for both soft and hard-aged cheeses, but you shouldn’t just toss any old cheese into…Read more...

In declaring monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organization on Monday acknowledged that currently this outbreak is concentrated among men who have sex with men. The WHO director-general’s statement followed this by saying that “stigma and discrimination can be as dangerous…Read more...

Money is a weirdly taboo subject, and many of us made it through our entire educational careers without partaking in any serious money management lessons—undoubtedly to our detriment. A lot of us manage to buy houses and earn and save surprisingly large amounts of income without really understanding anything at all…Read more...

When I was 11, I could imagine no more subversive television show than Beavis and Butthead. It looked like a cartoon—you know, for kids!—but focused almost exclusively on stuff that was decidedly off-limits in my household: swearing, watching music videos, hitting my brother in the head with a baseball bat, setting…Read more...

Oh, Choco Taco, why did you have to go? Klondike may have discontinued the ice cream novelty but they can’t discontinue my childhood. I will never again have the pleasure of tearing open the thin, metallic, plastic wrapper that cradled the ice cream truck favorite, and that breaks my polar-bear-loving heart. But the…Read more...

For most gamers, the PS5 is an easy setup. You plug it into your TV, it figures out whether you have a 1080p or 4K display, and presto: modern gaming at your fingertips. However, those of us who game on a 1440p monitor rather than a TV may be frustrated by Sony’s lack of support for the resolution. Well, pop the…Read more...

Some slang terms and buzzwords spring out nowhere to fill a pressing cultural need to talk about a new thing, or to talk about an old thing in a new way, but some seemingly new words are actually older-than-retro and date back hundreds of years. These terms lay undisturbed in ancient tomes until, somehow, they get…Read more...

Power outages can range from being annoying to downright catastrophic, depending on the circumstances. With the North American Electric Reliability Corporation estimating that a significant portion of the U.S. is at an elevated risk for power outages this summer, due to above-average temperatures and worsening drought…Read more...

A couple of months ago, I found a snack that changed my life. It was only three ingredients—super tart cornichons dipped in crème fraîche swirled with honey—and it was chaotically good.Read more...

Have you noticed Instagram kinda sucks now? You open the app, scroll through your feed, and think, “Who the hell are these people?” In its heyday, Instagram was a simple social media app for friends to follow other friends and catch up on their lives with fun photos and filters. Now, you’re being served fake TikToks…Read more...

If you’ve been waffling over whether to purchase a Meta Quest 2 VR system, it’s time to make a decision: Meta announced yesterday that the price of the Quest 2 is going up by $100 on Aug. 1. This means you only five days to break out the credit card or be faced with needlessly giving Mark Zuckerberg one hundred…Read more...

It might seem tempting at first to put a screen protector on your shiny new MacBook. After all, many of us put screen protectors on our shiny new iPhones, in an effort to preserve these expensive displays. You would think the same philosophy applies to your MacBook’s screen, which likely costs more than your iPhone…Read more...

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It’s zucchini season, and my zucc plant is going wild. The plant is prolific and the zuccs are big, which is fine, because I have several methods for getting zucchini into my mouth. Here are my favorite ways to deal with too much zucchini, should you find yourself in a similar situation.Read more...

Across the board, Apple takes tech accessibility seriously. Their most visible efforts come via iPhone features like Voice Control, but are hardly limited to iOS and iPadOS. While accessibility features are developed to help people with physical impairments, macOS users can also access to a swath of accessibility…Read more...

Cinnamon rolls are the epitome of a “reconsider food.” These are foods that have the special ability to make you say, “Nah, I really shouldn’t. OK, but maybe just one.” It’s a real act of strength to walk by a Cinnabon without taking two or three extra deep breaths; the aroma of that cinnamon roll is nearly thick…Read more...

There was a time when testing positive for COVID came with the confidence that you wouldn’t get reinfected for a few months. Unfortunately, we no longer have that sense of short-term protection. In addition to keeping yourself safe with a well-fitted mask, it’s smart to redeem your free COVID tests by mail and test…Read more...

Clearly the Google Play Store is no place to download apps willy-nilly. Sure, most of the options on offer are perfectly safe, but far too many malicious apps sneak in under the radar. A week after we updated you on a recent infestation comes news of another batch of apps discovered to be carrying malware—and this…Read more...

With the state of inflation the way it is, it’s not unlikely you’ve considered doing some unconventional things with your finances—and one unconventional way you can get more bang for your buck is by retiring abroad. There are quite a few financial incentives for spending your golden years overseas: Lower costs of…Read more...

There’s something about being in nature that is so refreshing and calming—something many of us developed a new appreciation for during the pandemic. But if you’re new to the outdoors or just want to up your game, you need some solid apps to help you navigate the great outdoors. Here are our favorite outdoor apps to…Read more...

I thought it would be a fun to write a listicle about things in your house that are dirtier than your toilet, mostly because I wanted to make you feel bad about your housekeeping. I quickly discovered I was hardly the first internet-hack/list-artist to have this idea.