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Frozen cooked shrimp has become a freezer staple for many, thanks to being a quick and easy way to add protein to salads, pastas, and any number of other meals. But if it’s in your freezer at the moment, you’re going to want to check the label.Read more...

Humans aren’t the only ones who suffer memory loss and impaired brain function as we age—it can also happen to our pets. In dogs, it’s called cognitive dysfunction syndrome, or CDS, and unfortunately, many of its symptoms are brushed off as “normal” aging.

Depression is one of those illnesses that makes it almost impossible just to get out of bed, let alone do all of the necessary tasks your life requires, like getting dressed, feeding yourself, and cleaning your house. Unfortunately, the tendency to neglect your physical needs can often make you feel even worse,…Read more...

Most Spotify users are likely aware the streaming service tracks their listening activity, search history, playlists, and the songs they like or skip—that’s all part of helping the algorithm figure out what you like, right? However, some users may be less OK with how much other data Spotify and its partners are…Read more...

Are you tired of having to use boring touch controls to interact with your phone? After all, that’s the way things have been done on almost every smartphone for the last decade and a half. While some phones have dabbled in different gesture-based controls in the past, none has really caught on. Maybe Google will…Read more...

Have we reached peak used car prices? No one can say for sure, but there are definitely signs that the market is beginning to cool off. With some car model prices elevated above 30% compared to last year, this could be a good time to sell your car, especially if you don’t need one right now.

Contrary to public opinion, I do eat vegetables. I am a frequent eater of salads, and just this year started growing my own vegetables (and, technically, fruits), the most robust of which has been zucchini.Read more...

In a recent post, we offered a few options for removing mold from hard-to-clean surfaces like wood and upholstery, but what about the wettest room in the house? It might seem straightforward to clean your bathroom’s tub and tile, but areas like grout and caulking are a little trickier. Not to worry, there are ways of…Read more...

We’re used to seeing kids play team sports, like soccer and baseball, at a young age. And strength-based activities like climbing on monkey bars are time-honored childhood pastimes. But somehow, lifting weights looks wrong to many of us when kids are the ones doing it. But how young is too young to pick up a barbell?

We recently advised you that certain types of landscaping can help (or hurt) your home’s resale value. (Steer clear of spikey plants! Avoid invasive species! Don’t plant too many trees!) But another way to potentially boost the value of your home—or at least its curb appeal—is to remove or refrain from outdated…Read more...

With children heading back to full-time, in-person school over the next few weeks while the Delta variant of COVID-19 surges, many parents are wondering whether their kids will be required to wear a mask.

The shift was already happening, but after a year and a half of remote work during the pandemic, Slack has become the de facto business messaging app. But just as you’d think twice about calling your colleagues on their off days or after work, you should probably do the same on Slack too.Read more...

Whenever you get a medical bill that’s either more than you expect (which is often) or confusing (also often), you should ask for an itemized bill, or a “super bill.” A super bill contains the finer details you actually need to make sense of what you’re actually being charged for, which, in turn, will uncover errors…Read more...

My oldest son had never been so excited to make a Target run. He was flush with birthday gift cards, and since he has never had the opportunity to purchase his own toys before, it was the perfect moment to stroll through the aisles in search of something he really wanted. His eyes got especially wide when he saw the…Read more...

Changes in weight can be tricky to gauge. Your weight isn’t static, but rather something that fluctuates during the course of the day depending on things like what you ate and your daily activity. In addition to this daily fluctuation, your weight can also go up or down a few pounds throughout the week due to factors…Read more...

If you are moderate to severely immunocompromised—including if you’ve had an organ transplant or if you are being treated for cancer—the CDC now recommends that you get an extra dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Every time I visit my dad and stepmom, I end up eating a bowl of ice cream. Yesterday, after shooting several arrows with my dad, my stepmom gave me the choice of ice cream with peaches or ice cream with blackberries, and I chose peaches. About two minutes later, my stepmom handed me a bowl of vanilla ice cream with…Read more...

For all the discourse and debate surrounding Mac versus PC, Chromebooks remain the no-brainer choice for many, especially students heading back to school. While they range in cost, many are a fraction of the price of a standard laptop, particularly on the used market, and will be more than able to meet the majority of…Read more...

The workflow between iPhones and Macs is pretty seamless (especially thanks to features like Handoff), and the same can be said for using an Android and a PC. However, problems arise when you plug an Apple device into a Windows-supported computer. While the interaction between the two is not a perfect marriage, there…Read more...

“Well, well, well. If it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.” It’s a pretty standard joke on Twitter and TikTok these days, and its popularity stems from the universality of that feeling. Haven’t we all been caught up in a friend war or some other drama and experienced a moment of clarity, suddenly realize we’re…Read more...

To casually date is to open ourselves to the many red flags people inevitably encounter when playing the field. There are mixed signals and misunderstandings, but also sometimes more malevolent manipulations, and it can be hard to tell which are which. So, in the interest of separating the harmless from the harmful,…Read more...

This one goes out to everybody who has resigned themselves to the fact that the gym they haven’t been to in years will be pulling a chunk of money from their checking account every month for the rest of their lives. Many gyms require would-be quitters to cancel memberships by showing up in person or sending a…Read more...

Noise cancellation is one of the best features of the AirPods Pro—until one AirPod pops out of your ear and you’re back in transparency mode. While transparency mode is good in situations where you need to hear the sounds of the environment around you, nobody wants to switch to transparency mode just because they…Read more...

Creating a backyard retreat has been essential for many people during the pandemic. Being able to escape outside or even invite a few friends over to more safely socialize has felt more important than ever before—but if your backyard still feels less than hospitable for you or your guests, a few small, inexpensive…Read more...

Sometimes large Zoom calls can get a bit rowdy, especially when children are involved. But Zoom realizes this and, in response, has launched a new “Focus” mode—which disables everyone else’s video feed—to help you maintain control over large or especially fidgety groups.

Status messages are one early internet quirk that didn’t really keep up with the times, even though they totally should. They’re fun, but they’re also informative, allowing you to let your contact list know what you’re up to, and why you really can’t respond to every message right now, Dave. Thankfully, Google is…Read more...

Fannie Mae will include rent-payment history as part of their underwriting process, making it easier for borrowers to qualify for mortgages—starting Sept. 18. With the rule change, 17% of borrowers who were previously rejected would now be approved, based on their rental history alone. Here’s a look at how you might…Read more...

Air-fried hard-boiled eggs are a pedant’s nightmare. They are neither fried nor boiled, and yet it would be very hard to pick them out of hard-boiled egg lineup as the thing that is “not like the others.” They are, for all intents and purposes, a hard-boiled egg, and you can make them in your air fryer (which, again,…Read more...

With many parts of the country experiencing uncomfortably high levels of humidity, you may have noticed the impact both outdoors and indoors. Sure, having the air conditioning on, or a dehumidifier running helps, but not everyone has access to those options.Read more...

Sunscreen is a summertime necessity, but sometimes it can end up on places other than your skin. Whether you squeeze the bottle too hard—resulting in lotion exploding all over your favorite carpet—or someone in your household sits down on the couch covered in a fresh coat of head-to-toe sunblock, sunscreen stains can…Read more...

Hot tubs are great when it’s chilly out, but when the outdoor temperatures and humidity begin to rise, stewing in bubbling hot water may not seem very appealing. Fortunately, there’s something you can do about that. In an article for Hunker, Michelle Miley explains how to cool and then maintain your chilled hot…Read more...

In a perfect world, we’d decide who—and what—we share our home with. Unfortunately, real life doesn’t always play out like that, and it’s entirely possible that we’ll end up with some unwelcome roommates from time-to-time.Read more...

Whether you usually wash your car (or SUV, truck, van, etc) at home yourself, or take it to a carwash, you probably don’t get around to doing it as often as you’d like. A DIY wash job saves money, but not necessarily time—especially when you factor in all the hosing.Read more...

Let’s say you’re out for a late summer stroll, and you come across a patch of familiar-looking flowers with long, thin stems and tiny white flowers that grow together in round bunches. They appear to be Queen Anne’s lace—a flowering plant you’ve seen in floral arrangements and may have made crowns out of as a child.Read more...

So, you and your partner have decided to have kids. (Or maybe you didn’t “decide” so much as you felt nauseous for days before figuring it out.) Either way, congrats and welcome to a different stage of adulthood, when your life takes a backseat to the needs of a tiny, ever-sharting baby without neck strength or bowel…Read more...

We might not realize it, but many of the words and phrases we use throughout the day can casually disparage others. Plenty of our idioms and common clichés of speech could accurately be described as ableist, or discriminatory against people with disabilities. Some of these phrases have become less common as more…Read more...

You might recognize her from a brief cameo appearance on ABC’s The Goldbergs earlier this year (in which she plays herself), but Nancy Glass is more than an on-camera host. Across decades in the media business—weathering the seismic changes in how organizations make money and stay relevant—Glass has done it all: She…Read more...

To clear your head and get some easy exercise, the only thing that beats walking is getting out on the water. I’m lucky to live close enough to a lake that I can go for a sunset kayak a few days each week, where I watch birds and sometimes just bring a snack, drop an anchor, and float for a little bit.

In his popular—albeit questionable and somewhat callow—1980 novel Still Life With Woodpecker, Tom Robbins prescribes the following three ways one can employ to Make Love Stay:

Not to go all “we live in a society” on you, but modern American culture promotes two main goals: Get married and get money…lots of money. From there, you might move on to secondary, related goals like having kids and buying a house. And though a successful career can buy you that nice house, help you afford those…Read more...

Most of the time, you’re probably skimming the web instead of actually reading it. And that’s okay for quick news updates and browsing social media. But when you’ve opened up a long article that you actually want to read, things start to get difficult.

I moved into my home in the winter, when the yard was freshly sodded and a few decorative shrub-like plants dotted the perimeters of my yard. Owning a house in the winter is different than owning a house in the spring—things grow in the spring, and a lot grew around my house. Once the weather warmed, I was delighted…Read more...

Staying fit during and after pregnancy is an important part of that whole “giving birth” thing. Regular exercise during pregnancy can help reduce the risk of gestational diabetes as well as the potential you’ll need a C-section, while also mitigating some of the more uncomfortable aspects of growing a tiny human, such…Read more...

Just like the hidden symbols on an iPhone’s keyboard, there are plenty of useful keys buried under one long-press on your Android. Before we share these tips, it’s good to clarify that these hidden symbols can be accessed using Google’s own Gboard keyboard app, the default keyboard for the Google Pixel lineup and…Read more...

When you land a good job, you feel grown up and self-assured. When your boss turns out to be one of those, constantly checking on you and monitoring your work, you can easily feel like a child.Read more...

There’s some new foolishness in the wind, you might not be surprised to learn, in the form of a, er, viral meme suggesting it was a vaccination program gone awry that created the “zombies” in the film I Am Legend. This is, apparently, a reason to be cautious of the real-life COVID vaccines.Read more...

This week is all about forbidden knowledge, so read on for a look inside the hidden worlds of YouTube celebrity, superhero sexuality, fast-food fries, and the White House itself.Read more...

Headspace and Calm are the juggernauts in the meditation apps sphere. They have done a great job bringing mindfulness-based meditation to the masses. Their apps make it easier for anyone to pick up the skills to help relax, and even deal with issues like anxiety and depression.

Given the volume of things we forget to clean around the house, we probably aren’t paying enough attention to our appliance filters either. An unchanged filter can reduce indoor air quality, stop a vacuum from sucking up dirt, and sabotage a dishwasher from cleaning our dishes. Here are the filters you should be…Read more...

When you install a beta on your device, you’re gaining access to new features and changes before almost everyone else on the platform. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and most other tech companies keep an open beta for their users to opt into if desired. But installing a beta on your phone, laptop, or tablet isn’t…Read more...