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As a trusted butcher and meat life coach, customers sometimes bring me pages torn out of food magazines or turn their phones to show me recipe photos on Pinterest. They ask whether they can make their food look that good, or whether it’s all the magic of food styling. Truth is, it’s both. Often, the object of their…Read more...

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Before she was a senator and 2020 presidential candidate, Elizabeth Warren was a professor at Harvard who also happened to write a couple of really good books on personal finance and economic instability in the U.S.Read more...

I buried my first and only pet when I was 7.

The thinking tends to be that racists raise racists. Therefore, if you see yourself as a good person, raising your kids with inclusive morals, you would have no reason to worry that they’d grow up to the be the sort of person who would march with white nationalists in Charlottesville. But it happens.Read more...

Chrome and Firefox: Pop-ups are back, baby! They offer 10% off, they ask you to subscribe to newsletters (sorry), they pull up a chat window so customer service can help you spend your money. If those chat pop-ups freak you out, try blocking them with the Hello, Goodbye extension.

A big, beautiful comforter, spread neatly across the bed you share with a partner may look nice during the daytime. But at night, chaos results. One person will be too hot, one too cold. Worse, one of them will probably toss and turn during the night, pulling cold air under the covers. The simple solution: separate…Read more...

Although The Sims 4 has made building houses better than ever, it’s still a bit tricky to make your dream home. Here are a few tips to help you graduate beyond just making a box with windows.

Flying’s difficult as it is, and it can be doubly bad for passengers who use wheelchairs and scooters.

Microsoft made PC gamers’ dreams come true last week when it announced the Halo: Master Chief Collection would be available on PC through Steam and the Windows Store later this year, and now you can sign up for a chance to play the game early via the company’s new Halo Insider program.

Turns out people aren’t great at setting financial goals, according to a recent report from investment firm Morningstar. But that could change if they tapped into their emotions a bit more.

You are ugly, and if you didn’t notice, perusing a history of American cosmetic marketing will point out all of your innumerable flaws until you feel that god has damned you. It tells you your genetic traits are unsexy and then makes you pay for it. It denies science. It racially segregates. It sexually fetishizes…Read more...

If you are one to get caught up in details and definitions, cooking from recipes can kick the pedantic portion of your brain into overdrive. Words and phrases that are intuitive to more seasoned home cooks can prove utterly mystifying to newbies, particularly those related to the construct that is time.Read more...

Netflix continues its transformation from streaming platform to glorified HBO competitor, adding dozens of original titles in April while losing lots of its licensed catalog. If you’re underwhelmed by Netflix’s own work and you were in this for the classic film library, it might be time to unsubscribe.

Ah, pre-boarding—the one logistical benefit of having small children.

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Year after year, my son tends to knock school Picture Day out of the park with a confident stance and natural smile. Except for one year when he was two and-a half and in daycare. Because his friends will one day Google his name, I won’t post it here. Instead, I’ll paint a mental picture for you.

At least once a year, desperate for the tiniest glimmer of spring, I buy the first crop of supermarket tomatoes that look even vaguely ripe. They are never anything but a total letdown, which means I end up regretting my purchase—and resenting those subpar tomatoes for suckering me in.Read more...

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Despite what Instagram would have you believe, plant parenting is hard. There are so many questions to answer. Are you watering too much? Not enough? Is the light in your space bright, indirect, or low? What is soil rot? Why is everything dying?

We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.

Being harassed on Twitter is never fun. And it can happen to you whether you’re already a decently well-known figure with that blue check mark of authenticity, an up-and-comer in the world of online witticisms, or if you came up with a single tweet that blew up beyond your wildest expectations. Or, of course, if…Read more...

I am a worldly woman of much class, which is why one of my favorite things about traveling is seeing what the local talent at international McDonald’s have to offer, particularly in terms of dipping sauces and McFlurry options. I’ve dined on Cadbury McFlurries in England and dipped my nuggets in La Sauce Curry in…Read more...

The key to saving, as everyone knows, is to spend less than you earn. So simple! But how do you get your spending under control when there are countless things you can spend money on?

Google+ gets the axe on April 2, but some of your old posts may be sticking around—whether you want them to or not. In an effort to preserve internet content, the Internet Archives and ArchiveTeam create digital backups of websites and other internet content that would otherwise be lost to time, and their next project…Read more...

Ever feel the need to crush things before you recycle them? Well, it’s often the right instinct, as it conserves space and is more efficient for pick-up by recyclers. Plastic bottles, for instance, are generally best crushed (and left with caps on) when thrown in the recycling bin.

While Google is letting users test out the upcoming Android Q through a public beta program, it’s not going to be for everyone. If you updated to the Android Q beta build and find your device has slowed down, that the battery isn’t as efficient, or that certain apps don’t run the way they’re supposed to (or at all), …Read more...

Boy, we really know how to wreck a good thing. Japan sends us their charismatic organizational expert and what do we Americans do? We ruin her by turning her into a verb.

Daniel Pink is the bestselling author of several game-changing books about behavior, motivation and organizations, including his latest, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. So he must have this parenting thing in the bag, right? “I am more than willing to offer up research, tips and hacks to my family—and…Read more...

Have a bunch of used razors lying around your bathroom? Well, forget throwing them in the trash where they’d usually land—now, you can recycle all your disposable razors, hairs and all, and all it takes is a simple package in the mail.

A good doughnut does not rely on gimmicks, but a gimmick can help out a subpar doughnut. It doesn’t matter how artisanal or renowned a doughnut shop is, if they can’t produce a decent plain, yeast-risen, glaze doughnut—without covering it in distracting ingredients—they are not a good doughnut shop.Read more...

One of the greatest pleasures of my new-ish morning routine is that I start many of my days by doing nothing. I lay around for a bit, before getting ready and then sitting with a cup of coffee for a few minutes.Read more...

A $100 robo vac, Nectar mattresses, and the EufyCam home security starter kit lead off Monday’s best deals.Read more...

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A new study by MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) researchers found that many parents perceive e-cigarettes to be safer than regular cigarettes. Parents who vape were much more likely to vape in their homes and cars with their children present than parents who smoke traditional cigarettes, they concluded.Read more...

I hate biopics! I’d so much rather watch a biographical documentary than watch actors pretend to be real live people. Sure, you’ll probably get an Oscar for your portrayal (cf. Rami Malek), but I’m not entirely sure why, because acting in a biopic involves so much impersonation, which seems like a waste of time. Just…Read more...

A bestselling, top-rated, and audience-favorite robotic vacuum is marked down to just $100 right now as a refurb, easily one of the best robotic vacuum deals we’ve seen.

If you haven’t bought a mattress on the internet yet, today’s a great day to fix that, as Amazon’s discounting popular Nectar mattresses to all-time low prices in today’s Gold Box.

Painting your walls is definitely an undertaking, but not quite as much of an undertaking as figuring out what paint color you want to use.

The weather is slowly getting warmer, which means we’re all about head outside a little more. If your outdoor adventures take you on a hike or two through nature, then you stand a good chance of coming across a plant or animal that you can’t quite identify. iNaturalist is an app that can help.

As a girl from North Carolina, March Madness is one of the most important times of the year for me. As it turns out, living a few miles away from the college campuses of three teams that often make it into the tournament will push you to get really into college basketball. And March is when that obsession reaches its…Read more...

A sound system sale, Kindle biographies and memoirs, and a discounted Queen Helene scrub lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web.

Last month a 19-year-old bug was discovered in WinRAR, the software many PC users use to extract .zip and other files on their computer. While the company was quick to patch the bug, that match requires users to update their software in order to be safe — and a lot of people haven’t yet.

It may have taken the FAA to convince Southwest to take its 737 Max 8’s out of the air, but the airline is making up for it (sort of) with a March promotion that allows you to change your flight for free, even if there’s a difference in the price of the ticket.Read more...

Burrow’s Spring Sale, Uniqlo Blocktech jackets, and L.L.Bean fishing gear lead off Saturday’s best deals from around the web.

If you’re looking for ways to be a bit more productive, the Pomodoro technique can be a good place to start. The technique, which was developed in the early 90s by developer Francesco Cirillo, involves breaking down large tasks into short, timed intervals. Cirillo called those intervals Pomodoros, in part because he…Read more...

The World Wide Web turned 30 this week, and everyone celebrated the best way they know how—by coming up with big lists of all the internet-related topics we’ve dealt with (or obsessed over) the past few decades. That includes dial-up modems, AOL, avatar- and comic-based chatrooms, and Homestar Runner, which are just a…Read more...

Are you getting your sweat on with our resistance band challenge? Good, because it’s time to take a break and cool down with some stretches.Read more...

If you’re like most Americans, you might not have a ton of money saved or invested. And reading what you should have or should be saving—say, saving 20 percent each paycheck, or having your yearly salary saved by the time you’re 30—can be overwhelming. So much so, that you just might not start.

Last weekend, Sunday lived up to its name, and I was able to enjoy a few cocktails in a sunny cocktail bar in southeast Portland. I started with a coconut gin negroni and, while sipping on that, a sassy little number with Squirt (one of my favorite sodas as a youth) caught my eye.Read more...