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One of the easiest ways to derail a meeting is to start talking about something off topic or to spend too much time talking about something that you don’t leave an adequate amount of time to discuss something else. And let’s face it, no one likes attending a 20-minute meeting that routinely turns into an hourlong…Read more...

<Psssst> Black Friday is starting now. You can already save on a ton of PS4 stuff, Anova sous-vide circulators, an Xbox One S bundle, Microsoft Surfaces, and a lot more.Read more...

Anova’s older sous-vide cookers go on sale with some regularity, but Black Friday is one of your first chances to save on the newer, significantly smaller Nano circulator.Read more...

Do you know what the weather is supposed to be like later this week for your kid’s soccer game? How about that picnic you have planned for Saturday? Should you start thinking about an indoor venue instead?

This week a bunch of invitations started popping up again for a “Secret Sister” holiday gift exchange. You’ve probably seen the same, or something similar, pop up in yours as well. In case you haven’t realized: it’s a scam. The Better Business Bureau issued a warning against the exchange earlier this week.

Early Black Friday deals on PlayStation Plus memberships, Amazon-branded mattresses, and a huge DEWALT power tool combo lead off Saturday’s best deals from around the web.Read more...

This DEWALT five-tool cordless combo kit would be the ultimate holiday gift for any home improvement enthusiast, and its $349 Black Friday price is a full $50 less than the previous all-time low on Amazon.

You never want to see a huge food recall due to salmonella, but you especially don’t want to see a huge food recall due to salmonella in turkey the week before Thanksgiving.

Happy weekend, everyone, and welcome back to 3-Ingredient Happy Hour, the weekly drink column featuring super simple yet delicious libations. This week we’re making a cocktail to help fuel all those fun political debates you’re sure to have this upcoming Thursday—something I’m calling the “Drunk Cousin.”Read more...

Intellectually, we all know that a billion is much more than a million. You know, 1,000 times more. We know that Jeff Bezos is a lot wealthier than Beyoncé for example, and that Bill Gates’ wealth puts the Kardashians to shame.Read more...

Pokémon Let’s Go! Eevee and Pikachu aren’t the most challenging of games, but in order to make the most of it, we have some advice. Here are a few tips for your journey to becoming Pokémon Champion.

Some people love their special luggage. Some swear by a certain snack; some go so far as to bring their own coffee grinder on every trip. My must-bring item is my BeatsX wireless earphones, which wall me off from crying babies, subway talkers, and the pilot telling the whole plane how fast we’re going as if we might…Read more...

How’s the bench press challenge going? Hopefully you’ve managed to lift something, whether that’s a traditional barbell, or dumbbells or weights of any size. Today we’re looking at another challenge that you might face if you don’t have a fully equipped gym: how to bench press without a bench.Read more...

Kaeo Milker has enjoyed a long and eye-opening career at Blizzard Entertainment: QA, facilities management, recruiting and, now, heading up the company’s big MOBA franchise, Heroes of the Storm. You’re probably more likely to follow his advice than follow him down a lane, though; although he’s the captain of the Heroes…Read more...

Baked custards are everywhere on the Thanksgiving dessert table. Apart from apple pie, just about every other holiday classic calls for baking a sugar-and-egg slurry until perfectly set. It seems simple enough, but custard pies are notoriously tricky—especially when canned pumpkin gets involved.

An escape game can be stressful and frustrating and difficult, or it can be fun and empowering and...still difficult. These tips aren’t going to ruin escape rooms by making them too easy. But they might save your next team-building activity from becoming an hour of futility and failure.

Humans spend a lot of their waking hours avoiding thoughts of our inevitable end. That’s probably for the best, since dwelling on your death is a morbid exercise. But, it turns out, it’s also a very useful thing to think about when trying to figure out your life.Read more...

If you’re planning to hit the road this Thanksgiving, there’s a right and a wrong time to get behind the wheel. Looking at historic Google Maps data, Google just released its suggestions for when the best and worst travel times will be during Thanksgiving week in 25 U.S. metros. This year the company also took things…Read more...

When was the last time you read the emails your 401(k) provider sends you, or downloaded the prospectus for a fund you’re invested in? Last year? When you first signed up? Never?

I’m the kind of person who hates losing old copies of digital things—photographs, messages, emails, videos, etc. While I doubt I’ll ever take a walk down memory lane and reminisce over random emails I sent in 2007, I don’t like feeling as if I couldn’t do that if I wanted or needed to.Read more...

The A.V. Club The Watchmen movie proves you can be faithful to a comic and still miss its whole damn point | Deadspin Report: Draymond Green’s Suspension Came After He Told Kevin Durant The Warriors Didn’t Need Him | The Root Apparently, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Doesn’t Look Poor Enough for Republicans | The Slot …Read more...

The Thousand Oaks shooter allegedly assaulted his track coach, years before the shooting. She was encouraged to keep it quiet. The Florida high school shooter allegedly abused, threatened, and stalked people he knew. The Las Vegas shooter allegedly verbally abused his girlfriend in public. There’s no surefire way to…Read more...

Friday November 16th is National Fast Food Day. While arguably a little too close for comfort to Thanksgiving for us all, the day—like most other made up holidays—comes with a pretty healthy amount of freebies that are worth taking advantage of.

Recently, my son and his friends attended their high school’s Homecoming Dance. As the boys gathered at our home for pictures and pizza before their night out, I pulled my son aside and handed him a $20 bill.Read more...

Some people can be persnickety about the flavor profile of their Thanksgiving meals—they want the classics, and they want them to taste classic. Those people yelled at me when I suggested adding miso to stuffing, but I am nothing if not stubborn, and I’m going to keep on talking about how good miso is in pretty much…Read more...

Earlier this year I finally fell down the rabbit hole that is Instagram Stories, and now I spend way too much time on Instagram. This week, the app started rolling out a new feature to combat Insta-addiction, a “Your Activity” tracker that shows you how much time you spend in the app, and lets you set limits to help…Read more...

We already know that exercise benefits your mental health, including reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety. But if you want a workout that will make you feel really great, maybe what you need is to join a team.Read more...

The holiday season is a time for family, friends, charity, and a tremendous amount of waste.Read more...

Collecting video games is easy. All you have to do is create an eBay account and click “Buy It Now” on every video game you ever wanted. Congratulations, you have a video game collection! Your bank account balance is now negative a million dollars.

May I confess something? I don’t enjoy baking. Maybe it’s because I have grown to dislike anything that even vaguely reminds me of my former life as a chemist, or maybe it’s because I’m lazy, but baking is not fun for me, and I avoid it whenever I can (and make A.A. Newton do it instead). I do, however, like eating…Read more...

Babies can be mystical, confusing little buggers. Just when they appear to have conquered the art of sleeping through the night, they’re up every other hour. They go ticking through the milestones fast and furious until all of a sudden, they’re regressing.

Can you picture yourself up there on that stage, laying down some wisdom for the masses in a perfectly rehearsed presentation, a respectful audience listening in awe? Well, you have to get past the pitch first. Here’s how to get out of the slush pile, according to a TEDx producer.Read more...

Hi, I’m Nick, welcome to my YouTube tutorial channel. Here’s thirty seconds of excruciating introduction, two minutes showing you how to open an app, five minutes explaining an irrelevant task, and then five seconds of the actual tip you googled. Actually, we’ve got three tips: three ways to find the “real” part of a…Read more...

Google has recently upgraded its virtual private network (VPN) feature for Project Fi customers, allowing users the option to use a VPN for everything they do on Project Fi—wifi and cellular connections alike.Read more...

After running around all of Brooklyn, helping various staff members prepare their dishes for our Thanksgiving family meal, they left me with the task of cooking the big ol’ bird. (Luckily, when it comes to making turkey, I’m all I need.) With the help of some sturdy kitchen shears, a handful of kosher salt, and a…Read more...

Your pets breathe the same air you do. If you’re putting on a mask and taking precautions against wildfire smoke, you should be taking precautions for your pets as well.Read more...

Free DNS provider Cloudflare recently released a brand-new app for iOS and Android, “1.1.1.1,” that makes it incredibly easy to route all of your device’s DNS requests through the service’s speedy servers, not your ISP’s (likely slower) servers. In other words, this should make your web browsing feel faster. Better…Read more...

The Root White Women Wore Hoodies to a Tennessee Mall to Prove Its Hoodie Policy Only Targets Black Men | Deadspin Huffy, Dopey Cy Young Voter Hangs Up On Incredibly Chill Old Radio Host | The A.V. Club In an uneven finale, American Horror Story says you can’t outrun your fate | Jezebel Maybe Somebody Should Lean Out…Read more...

When it comes to buying cars, you should always have your guard up when working with dealerships. But believe it or not, they aren’t all out to rip you off. And you can get a really good idea on the type of operation they run based on their ads.

As we descend upon the holidays (or do the holidays descend upon us?), it feels like the right time to get into the holiday-hacking mindset by revisiting all the top-notch advice we’ve dispensed in the past.Read more...

Before you get on the elevator up the Sagrada Familia, you should know: the only way down is the stairs. This week on Hack Your City, we got your tips on Barcelona, capital of Catalonia, Spain. There’s some disagreement over just how tourist-friendly the area is; like many popular destinations, there’s some pushback…Read more...

You might have heard of quantum dots in the context of TVs, but Samsung uses them in a 4K computer monitor as well, and their 28" model just dropped to $349, its best price in nearly a year.

Deadspin Kevin Durant And Draymond Green Are Beefing Over A Lot More Than One Bad Possession | Splinter Kansas City Health Department Pours Bleach on Food Intended for Homeless | Jezebel Anti-Porn Conservatives Turn a Porn Performer’s University Speech Into a Dumb-Ass Scandal | The A.V. Club Steve McQueen’s thrilling…Read more...

Our friends over at Deadspin wrote a pointed but fairly innocuous article about NJ.com advertising a job posting for “what certainly sounds like a beat writing job” but is technically part-time and earns the reporter a stipend, not a salary.

Every time the Forbes 30 under 30 list comes out, it sends a chill through the ancient souls who have lived past that terrifying birthday. Never made the list? Too late, friend. Now, please never think about it again.Read more...

There is only time to cook one meal on Thanksgiving morning, and that meal is not breakfast. Cereal or store-bought danish is always an option, but if you want to serve something warm and seasonally appropriate, you can make these three-ingredient toaster pastries now, and keep them in the freezer until feeding time.Read more...

My husband and I both played instruments growing up, so we sort of assumed that musical ability and interest was deeply embedded in our genes. It wasn’t a matter of whether our son played in a band; it was a matter of which instrument—or instrumentS!—he would choose.Read more...

I love a little squash. They have the visual appeal of decorative gourds, but you can eat them, which is an improvement. But their small size can make them slightly challenging to de-seed, and a regular spoon’s smooth edge doesn’t have the scraping power needed to remove the goopy strings and seeds in an efficient…Read more...

There’s a lot of pricey sleep tech out there, not to mention supplements and products aimed at giving you more “energy” during the day. But most of us, if we’re feeling tired all the time, just need to get our butts to bed.Read more...

Auto-enrollment has proven to be an effective way for employees to save for retirement, with 91 percent of those who are auto-enrolled in a defined contribution plan (like a 401(k)) remaining opted in to the program, according to a 2018 report from Fidelity.Read more...