You can livestream the eclipse on August 21, but that doesn’t compare to seeing it in real life. A website (whose URL features the moon and sun emoji 🌚🌞) helps you plan out your solar eclipse day by telling you about official solar eclipse events near you and eclipse conditions, like the weather, how long you’ll be…
According to The Wall Street Journal, Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller convened a grand jury for Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election. This jury would let Mueller seek subpoenas—forcing people to testify in court and to produce documents for the investigation.
No, you’re not just imagining it: average seat sizes have shrunk over the past 20 years. According to FlyersRights.org, a nonprofit advocating for passengers’ rights, the average economy-class seat is 17 inches wide, compared to 18.5 inches in the early 2000s. The average space between a seat and the seat in front of…
Face masks can be expensive, but the experience of putting something on your face that will (hopefully) change the texture of your skin—and make you feel like a fancy spa patron—is incredibly satisfying. Luckily, there are DIY versions of most masks that can be made with household items, for a whole lot less cash.…
The most recent season of Saturday Night Live was a doozy, garnering plenty of newfound attention for its topical, Trump-related material, and the show’s highest ratings in more than 20 years. To get a front-row seat to whatever the 2017-2018 season has in store, the lottery for live tickets is open from August 1 to…
In case you’ve somehow managed to avoid the growing hype, on August 21, a solar eclipse will pass over the United States. And to protect your eyesight when staring into the sun, you’ll need protective glasses. Naturally, though, there are already sketchy retailers out there peddling counterfit eclipse-watching gear,…
There’s no such thing as a gifted child—Albert Einstein had many failures when starting his work and most Nobel laureates weren’t exceptionally smart as children. If you want to raise a “gifted child,” telling your kids that they’re smart could lead to burnout and could even drive them to fear failure. Instead,…
Earlier this year, North Carolina’s General Assembly partially repealed HB2, the so-called “bathroom bill” that restricted cities in North Carolina from enacting local anti-discrimination laws and required transgender people to use bathrooms that corresponded to the sex on their birth certificates. Since then, many…
Cooking for yourself after a long day at work can be annoying, but it saves you lots of money. On the other hand, going to a restaurant or getting takeout takes away the stress of having to figure out what to make (and then make it). So which will it be? Well, consider this: As reported by the New York Times, a study…
On Monday, we learned that Microsoft was killing off the iconic Microsoft Paint program after 32 years and replacing it with Paint 3D in its upcoming Windows 10 update. The news was tragic for fans of MS Paint, many of who publicly mourned the loss.
Eating bread in space is a surprisingly dangerous undertaking: the free-floating crumbs could cause someone to choke, lodge themselves in someone’s eye, or worst of all, cause a fire if it gets into the electrical panel. That’s why most astronauts have to eat the less appealing alternative—the tortilla.
While we’re waiting for the solar eclipse later on in the month, we’ll be cooling our heels in August hiding out in the air conditioning, and catching up on the fresh batch of movies and TV shows that are hitting streaming services on the 1st. Below, new offerings to expect from Hulu in the dog days of summer:
You ordered something online, but it looks completely different when it arrives. For one thing, you didn’t notice the weird shape of the collar or that it said “Mondays Suck” in small print on the back.
The novelty of summer is wearing off, and we’re spending more time in the nice air-conditioned indoors. That means more time for catching up on Netflix. We’ve figured out efficient ways to binge watch television shows—now all that’s left is figuring out what to watch.
If it feels like there are a lot more commercials on network TV these days, it’s not just because you’ve become accustomed to ad-free Netflix. A thread on AVS Forum from 2013 found that TBS sped up episodes of Seinfeld by 7.5 percent to air more ads. The clip that shows a side-by-side comparison of the TBS episode and…
You have a splitting headache, but the only medicine you have expired six months ago. Should you take it or toss it out? The jury’s still out, but a recent ProPublica investigation found that most medicines still work beyond their marked expiration dates, though it stopped short of recommending that consumers go ahead…
There’s about a ton of plastic for each person living in the world today—that’s 8,300 million tons of plastic produced since 1950, most of which has become waste and ended up in landfills. Even worse, plastic production is increasing and half of all the plastic on Earth was created in the past 13 years. But you can…
There are so many good podcasts out there (including Lifehacker’s The Upgrade), but there’s only so much time in a day. The Wall Street Journal reported on “podcasts nuts” who make time for podcasts by speeding them up with apps like Overcast. Like, up to 5x speed. Sure, that saves time, but it also probably spikes…
Flashcards unexpectedly found their way into the public discourse last week when Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway appeared on Fox News to defend Donald Trump Jr.’s emails with Russia by using giant flashcards to call the allegations an “illusion” and a “delusion” and to say that “collusion” was not the…
It’s not uncommon these days to come across a news story citing information from unnamed U.S. officials, but in the era of fake news, how can the discerning reader be sure that “anonymous sources” isn’t code for “totally fictional propaganda”?
