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Speed reading is a skill that can be hard to master. There are a ton of books, talks, and articles dedicated to teaching people the “right” way to learn the skill. This week, Fast Company spoke to one of those experts who wrote a book on topic to get some quick and dirty tips on how to learn. One of her suggestions:…Read more...

Oakland’s Golden State Warriors won Game 1 of the NBA Finals Monday night against the Cleveland Cavaliers, but it’s still anyone’s championship.

I’m a huge fan of fancy pools and beaches, but a writer’s salary isn’t typically one that can handle the hotel bill to stay at the hotel attached to those fancy pools and beaches too often. Daypass is an app lets poor schlubs like me get access to the wellness and fitness amenities at properties around the world and…Read more...

Most adults should have a legal will that provides instructions on what should happen to your assets in the event of your death. A will is not just for old people - anyone can suffer an illness or be involved in an accident that leads to their death. And while wills were principally focussed with physical goods, many…Read more...

Earther In a Single Generation, Alaska’s Landscapes Have Transformed | The A.V. Club Ye won’t change your mind on Kanye | The Takeout Man posts morel mushrooms on Facebook, gets a visit from the cops |Read more...

This week, Pandora unveiled a new family plan which allows six different members of the same family to use the service for one price. The concept of the “family plan” is hardly new in the music-streaming world; both Spotify and Apple Music have similar offerings for the same $15/month price.Read more...

Parenting can feel like a long practice in trying not lose your shit. You will fail sometimes. That’s okay. The best thing you can do is accept that it happens, and find ways to mitigate the explosion.

Hello all you undulating sin weasels, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only 16-bit dating advice column on the Internet.

The online service Hoopla—also an app for iOS, Android, and Amazon devices—is a great way to enjoy all the conveniences of your local library without having to leave your home.Read more...

Have an Audible subscription but not sure what to listen to next? I know the feeling well. My credits were starting to pile up to the point I thought about cancelling my subscription—until recently. Have you considered something educational?

Happy weekend, and welcome back to 3-Ingredient Happy Hour, the weekly drink column featuring super simple yet delicious libations. This week we’re making an elevated, adult version of one of my favorite summer sippers: cherry lemonade.Read more...

This week, federal regulators from the Federal Reserve proposed a rollback of the Volcker Rule, another step in the ongoing banking deregulation the Trump administration is undertaking.

When we last rounded up our staff’s Weekly Upgrades, our editors were deleting our embarrassing old tweets, making ourselves get up earlier, finding new ways to get our veggies, and checking annoying tasks off of our to-do lists.

With the public launch of iOS 11.4 earlier this week, Messages in iCloud is finally ready for prime time—and not a moment too soon. If you ever linked your phone number to Messages on multiple devices at once, you’d have to delete the same texts on each device over and over. Now, when your devices’ Messages apps are…Read more...

Healthy skin contains plenty of springy, elastic collagen, so it’s tempting to think that any product with “collagen” in the name is going to be good for your skin. But even though you can buy collagen powder to add to drinks, there’s little to no evidence that your skin directly benefits.

We here at Skillet are huge fans of cooking with beer, especially the cheaper stuff, which is why I was thrilled to find that Chef Aaron Sanchez (aka the chillest Chopped judge) uses light beer heavily in his summer cooking. Chef Sanchez is also “all about making life easier,” and was kind enough to share some summery…Read more...

It’s time to put the little one to bed. What do you do? Put on an audiobook, read them a bedtime story with fun pictures, or turn on some cartoons? A new study suggests the old standby of an illustrated bedtime story is best for developing your children’s brain.

It’s hard to get a good night’s rest when it’s too hot to sleep—and since we’ve already started seeing “record high temperature” headlines in the news, it’s time to figure out our nighttime cool-down strategies.

It’s National Donut Day, possibly the most important of the made-up holidays pushed by corporations and their Facebook accounts. You can get free donuts at chains like Krispy Kreme and Dunkin’ Donuts, plus some non-donut-centric outlets. Money, People, and USA Today have lists; we’ve sorted them into “actually free,”…Read more...

One of my goals for 2018 is to expand my reading horizons. I read a lot of recent fiction (actually, when I’m not at work, I read pretty much exclusively fiction), but I’d love to give other genres a chance.Read more...

Earther Companies Want to Begin Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for Oil by Winter | The A.V. Club Batman & Robin is the silliest superhero blockbuster, but is it really the worst? | The Takeout This mushroom bolognese is so rich it made the Fortune 500 |Read more...

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, also known as WWDC, officially kicks off on Monday. As the name suggests, the annual conference is centered around the developers that are making apps and services for things like your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac.Read more...

If you’re a Chrome power-user, you’ll eventually want to set up an automatic URL redirect. Maybe you want to watch all your YouTube videos on a minimalist site; maybe you love—or hate—going to the mobile version of a site. Maybe you just make the same typo every time you enter a certain URL. There are many Chrome…Read more...

Update: This promotion was scheduled to end on 5/31, but they extended it to June 8. Once this deal does go away, I can’t imagine we’ll see a better Apple TV deal for a very long time.Read more...

Earther Stop Whatever You Are Doing and Look at These Images From NOAA’s New Weather Satellite | The A.V. Club The Americans showrunners have a few topics they really don’t want to discuss | The Takeout Restaurant dishes prepared tableside, ranked by absurdity |Read more...

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

If someone asked you to describe the entire global technology landscape, you’d probably just shake your head and declare the task as impossible. But Mary Meeker, from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, does that each year. Her report has been released and it details everything from global smartphone shipments, to how…Read more...

Sure, fine, burpees are tough and we hate them. But they are a phenomenal full-body workout, and it won’t kill you to try just one. Maybe two. (Or ten. You know where this is going.) We’re all going to be so strong by the end of the month!Read more...

Your kid’s birthday party is coming up! Have you figured out where you’re gonna put the petting zoo? Are the 1,000 butterflies ready for their release? Did you remember to book your the child’s favorite band and name the party [Kid’s name]-chella? You did confirm that the skydiving Trolls will be dropping in after the…Read more...

They’re the soldiers with scissors, the deities of dying, and the architects of amazing ‘dos. They’re your hair stylist, and they have some things they really want you, the customer, to know about their job.

Apple’s latest entry-level iPad is a little faster than the previous model, and supports the Apple Pencil. But if you don’t really care about such things, you can get a great deal on the old one.

Crisp, cold cucumber salads are everything you want in a summer side, and smashing the cukes—rather than slicing—makes the dish even better.Read more...

If you haven’t booked a summer trip yet, you have a few more hours to take advantage of JetBlue’s Sale into Summer event and snag flight deals as low as $34 one-way.

How many times have you gone to share an interesting story (or comic) with a friend—a pretty standard process—only to find that the short URL you thought you were copying and pasting is actually one giant, messy paragraph of text. You can thank all the services and sites that append a ton of extra junk to URLs so they…Read more...

Our inaugural Livehacker event saw three expert speakers share their perspectives on the question “How should a man be?”Read more...

Inflight wifi internet, the dialup of the sky, can be quite expensive for how spotty it often is. If your airline uses Gogo to power their wifi service, do yourself a favor and buy an internet pass before you take off. You’ll save a bundle.

We will all, inevitably, be affected by a data breach of some kind (you likely have been already). When that day comes, you’ll want to be ready to mitigate the consequences.

Jason is looking for what he calls a mid-life crisis car to supplement his Jeep Cherokee. The challenge is that it has to be something fun to drive for someone that only has use of their left arm. What car should he buy?

Of all the destinations we’ve covered so far on Hack Your City, Shanghai might have the most surprises for Western visitors, as many readers described in Monday’s comment thread. This ancient city, now a technological and financial hub and popular travel destination, is full of unexpected juxtapositions.Read more...

Rhubarb rarely gets a starring role in desserts, with most recipes relying on strawberries to temper its raw, unpleasant sourness. This classic pairing, while tasty, makes very little sense to me. Rhubarb shines when gently cooked, but a hot oven destroys everything that’s special about a ripe strawberry—so why do we…Read more...

Your hands clench, your heart beats faster and you can feel your inner micromanager emerging: While preparing dinner, your preschooler has just walked up to you and asked, “Mama, can I help you cook?”Read more...

A PC parts and accessory sale, Stanley vacuum mugs, a Logitech mouse that works anywhere, and more are all part of today’s best deals from around the web.

Earther Lake Michigan May Get Its First-Ever Tropical Cyclone Tonight | The A.V. Club The Americans ends as it lived: Tense, affecting, and one of the greats | The Takeout With Gwen’s Peanut Butter Better Sauce, even broccoli is a hit |Read more...

Debit rewards cards aren’t as common as they once were, but they’re still an option for people wary of using credit cards.

If you’ve ever been in the hospital recovering from a surgery, you know the health care providers will ask you to “rate” your pain on a scale of 1 to 10, so they can administer pain relief if you need it. But assessing mental-health distress doesn’t have a simple 1-10 scale, because mental health isn’t as…Read more...

Planning trips with friends can be a tremendous and painful undertaking. Depending on your group, you’ll either end up with a bunch of people who just want you to figure everything out on your own (so they can complain about it when you do), or a group of highly-opinionated friends who all have their own ideas on what…Read more...

When out and about, I used to put all my ideas into a pocket notebook. Then I switched to emailing myself from my phone. Then I tried the Notes app. Now I put them in Wunderlist, a to-do app. It’s not my favorite to-do app—Microsoft even released another app to replace it—because I use my favorite to-do app for my…Read more...

Earther You Asked For This | The A.V. Club A frustrating Handmaid’s Tale gets a bunch of things almost right—and one thing exactly right | The Takeout IHOP apologizes for manager who caused family of boy without arms to leave restaurant |Read more...

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

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