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Creatine is one of the most popular supplements for people who lift, and with good reason: There’s significant evidence showing it’s safe to take and effective at helping you build muscle. But myths persist, so let’s take a look at a few of them.Read more...

Most new parents begin their parenting journey with some idea of how they want to discipline their children. Surely you would never let your three-year-old throw a fit in Target. Your kid won’t talk back to you because, of course, you are going to raise your children to be respectful. But what we don’t realize before…Read more...

Tension rods are a convenient way to hang curtains without putting holes in your walls, but the spring-loaded rods can do a lot more than just that. If you’ve had to be resourceful, a tension rod might be what’s holding up your shower curtain as we speak.

Magic: Legends—an online, free-to-play action RPG based on the long-running Magic: The Gathering (MTG) trading card game—is now playable in open beta on PC.Read more...

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With the end of pandemic travel restrictions seemingly in sight, you might be wondering if it’s once again a good time to sign up for a travel rewards credit card. Some companies are offering bigger-than-ever welcome bonuses, but safe travel may not be a realistic option until the end of 2021. Can you make do with the…Read more...

Firefox fans will want to grab the latest version of the browser (87), as it comes with a brand-new SmartBlock feature that’s designed to replace potentially problematic web scripts with local copycat scripts. The point? To ensure that the browser correctly blocks website tracking without breaking the website in the…Read more...

Recently, I have been ending my evenings with an episode or three of The Sopranos. It’s my first time watching the series, and I am (obviously) a fan. My favorite character? The pasta—or, as my Connecticut-born, half-Italian boyfriend calls it, the “macaroni.”Read more...

If you’d like to fill your home with beautiful plants, you can buy them, like a sucker. Or you can remove a leaf or two from a plant you come across somewhere—a leaf or two that won’t be missed—and coax it to grow into a full plant of your own.Read more...

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I consume a lot of ginger, which means I buy a lot of ginger, which sometimes translates to not using all of the ginger before it starts to shrivel up. I have dried-up ginger mitigation strategies but, after a recent overly enthusiastic ginger purchase, I tossed about six large roots in the freezer to keep them a…Read more...

Products containing CBD are often marketed for pain relief, but there’s no solid evidence that they actually do anything. In fact, the FDA recently issued warning letters to two companies that explicitly make CBD products intended to provide pain relief.Read more...

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One of the hottest trending topics on Twitter this week comes to us from a guy who claims he found shrimp tails in his box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Jensen Karp, a writer, podcast host, and comedian, is the man behind the now-infamous debacle, which has garnered media attention from The New York Times and prominent…Read more...

Healthy competition builds character, and we encounter it all the time—or manufacture it where it needn’t exist. Whether we are choosing our favorite kind of pizza or voting for a political candidate we believe in, picking a side is something we do all the time. This is probably why so many of us are thrilled by…Read more...

Slack has launched a new direct-messaging feature that allows people from different companies to talk to one another. No problems there, right? The service is opt-in, in that you’ll have to approve anyone attempting to bother you on your work Slack before their messages appear—thank god. But that’s not the only quirk…Read more...

As more of us get vaccinated and begin looking toward a somewhat more normal summer ahead, you may be thinking a good old-fashioned road trip is in order. It’s also possible that while you’ve been locked up for a year, you’ve forgotten how to survive while trapped in a vehicle with young children for multiple hours at…Read more...

If you’ve been paying attention to the news, then you’d notice that there’s been a lot of talk about the federal minimum wage lately.Read more...

Martial arts studios, gyms, dojos, academies—whatever you want to call them—have suffered like most other in-person businesses during the pandemic. Many gyms have shut down entirely, while others lucky enough to retain a certain number of students have migrated much of their classes online, forging a new kind of…Read more...

Fortnite’s next big in-game concert features Grammy-nominated DJ and producer Kaskade, who will perform his new Reset EP in full multiple times between Friday, March 26 and Saturday, March 27. The shows will happen live in Fortnite’s Party Royale game mode.

Stock and broth are very similar liquids, and can be used interchangeably in many recipes without incident. There are, however, a few key differences between them, the primary being a matter of bones.Read more...

The Nevers, HBO’s next bid for genre TV dominance, premieres April 11, carrying with it hopes it will generate, if not a Game of Thrones-level pop culture impact, than at least Lovecraft Country-level buzz. Unfortunately, the streamer hasn’t been able to generate any excitement based on the pedigree of its creative…Read more...

Gardening is all about experience, which makes getting started more than a little intimidating. Even something as simple as planting tomatoes brings up a million questions if you haven’t done it before: Do I need a raised bed? When should the seeds go in the ground? Is this too much light, or not enough? Hang on—do…Read more...

We’ve covered our best hacks for packing up a regular moving box, but when you move, you need to pack everything—even those tiny, annoying items that you could easily lose. So here are our best methods for packing those tricky, irregularly-shaped miscellany.Read more...

Ever since Game of Thrones rewrote HBO’s fortunes and became a worldwide phenomenon, Netflix has been chasing its own subscriber-boosting blockbuster fantasy adaptation. They had some success in 2019 with the first, highly memeable season of The Witcher, but a streaming empire cannot stand on a single pillar. So, in…Read more...

If you’re comfortable with extended train travel during the pandemic, now is a good time to book your ticket: Amtrak is offering flat-rate fares for routes along the Northeast Corridor, that, in many cases, wind up being cheaper than taking a bus. As part of the sale, you can book coach fares for $19 and Acela…Read more...

Clubhouse is prodigious. At just over a year old, the exclusive, invite-only app still doesn’t have a proper website or even an app on more than a single operating system. What it lacks in usability, though, the app store chart-topper makes up in celebrity cachet, millions of users, and access to a seemingly endless…Read more...

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There’s nothing like coming back to your Windows PC to find that everything’s been refreshed. None of your apps are open. Your web browser tabs are gone, as is your browser itself. That document you were working on? Hopefully you autosaved, because it looks like your system reset for whatever reason.Read more...

One thing about babies is, they don’t just dirty their diapers during the day, when everyone is awake and alert and ready to tackle the job. You’re going to do plenty of nighttime changes, too, and you’ll need to illuminate the situation at least enough to ensure you’re doing a decent job—but not so much that it’s a…Read more...

If you’ve ever taken a basic chemistry course, you know the substance we casually call “salt” is merely one kind of salt. A salt is simply a chemical compound consisting of a positively charged ion (a cation) and a negatively charged ion (an anion). The salt we typically sprinkle on our food is sodium chloride—NaCl if…Read more...

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YouTube has a copyright issue. While the platform’s AI-powered Content ID prevents illegal uploads of copyrighted material, it often hits legitimate creators with copyright claims even if they haven’t violated YouTube’s policies. Thankfully, the company is adding a new “Checks” tool that can help you spot potential…Read more...

Debates concerning contentious social and political issues are often supported by an annoying crutch, stemming back to the 18th century: invoking the Founding Fathers. It’s especially common when it comes to the intractable partisanship that now defines Congress.

A third of all donations through the popular crowdfunding site GoFundMe are for medical care, which isn’t surprising considering that the U.S. has the highest healthcare costs in the developed world. However, crowdfunding has its limits, as only a few campaigns reach or surpass their goal. You’ll want to exhaust all…Read more...

It has been a year since Disney closed down its theme parks due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was no small thing—as recently as 2016, Disney’s parks made up 40% of its annual income, so the company was understandably anxious to reopen as soon as possible—especially considering the closures came shortly…Read more...

If you happened to notice a bunch of your Android apps crashing yesterday, you’re not alone. An issue with Android’s System Webview component caused a bit of grief, but it’s nothing to be too worried about. In fact, Google has already prepped a fix, and you’ll want to take advantage of it right away, lest you…Read more...

This past year, racial injustices committed against Black Americans and Asian Americans have reached new heights. Hate crimes against Asian Americans have risen 149% since the pandemic began. At the same time, worldwide protests in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by police further highlighted the long history of…Read more...

When we want to convey a difficult or abstract concept to our kids, whether it be empathy, racism, anxiety, or bullying, we often turn to children’s books for help. These books can help us introduce topics and ideas we otherwise struggle to put into our own words, and that is especially true when we have to help our…Read more...

I have gotten more discerning about most things as I age, but the longer I am alive, the less picky I am about peels. Unlike my seven-year-old self, who wouldn’t eat an apple unless it was peeled, cored, and cut into segments, I’m now a big fan of nature’s edible wrapping paper. (The exception, oddly enough, is bell…Read more...

Google recently added Live Captions to the desktop version of Chrome. With Live Captions enabled, Chrome auto-transcribes any audio playing in the browser, even if the sound is muted.

Spring is here! The birds are singing, flowers blooming, and uh, it rains more. What a season! Sadly, covid-19 hasn’t gone anywhere. So depending on where you live you might still be stuck inside. Well, at least you’ll have games like Monster Hunter Rise, Outriders, and Mass Effect Legendary Edition to play while you…Read more...

When I was 21, fresh out of college and navigating California’s broken job market in the pits of the Great Recession, I got a public radio internship and was overjoyed.

When you buy food in the grocery store, you do so with the confidence that it has been inspected, and is therefore probably safe for you to eat. Of course, food production and distribution involves many different steps—each with their own potential for error—so there’s always the chance that something will slip…Read more...

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If your lender has allowed you to defer payment on your credit card, car loan, or mortgage payments during the pandemic, you’ll want to check your credit reports for errors more frequently, perhaps once a month. Lenders are increasingly mislabelling accounts as late or delinquent, and it can cause a lot of damage to…Read more...

If you’re the kind of person who enjoys the agony of rogue-like progression and city-building (of sorts), you owe it to yourself to give Loop Hero a shot. Heck, you can even still get your hands on the Loop Hero demo—long since removed from Steam, but re-downloadable from this handy website.Read more...

There are lots of inspiring TED Talks out there for adults—but if we’re not sharing some of them with our kids, they’re missing out on all the entertainment, context, knowledge, and motivation so many of them can provide. Some TED Talks are given by kids or specifically for kids, and that’s great. However, that isn’t…Read more...

My father has many chickens, all of them named after his favorite church ladies, and those hens have been laying. This means I have been on the receiving end of steady stream of beautiful fresh eggs with the most intensely colored, golden yolks, and they have ruined me for grocery store eggs.Read more...

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