DON’T make this recipe! I don’t bake enough to know what’s off, but I think one of the ingredient amounts must be incorrect. I made these today and instead of flattening out as in the picture, they remained almost spherical, and they do NOT taste good. I was very careful about my measurements and my oven temperature…

Radiolab, back in the days when there weren’t really very many podcasts (2009-ish?). It’s still one of my favorites. 

IMHO the best way to save money on running shoes is to find a type you like and buy past-year models in ugly colors. ASICS Kayanos are great for me, and every year they put out a new “model” (they’re on 27 now). So I’ll search Zappos and Amazon for a model 25 or 26 in whatever weird colors didn’t sell (I don’t care…

I’d also add that they may not last as long as you expect, given the cost. We’d been happy with our old Roomba for years until it started to have unfixable age issues, and upgraded to a Roomba s9+, which cost about $1000 at the time. It turned out to have some known software issues that were affecting a lot of people…

As a serious home ice cream maker, this makes me so angry. First of all, any “no churn” ice cream recipe is going to be disappointing. Ice cream needs to be churned to get the texture right, and for the cost of the ingredients you would buy to make “no churn” ice cream, you would do much better by just buying a pint…

Yikes. One of the positive things about online dating is that you can engage with multiple people, chat with them briefly, and (in my opinion) try to meet up for coffee or another short in-person meeting as quickly as possible, so you can see if there’s any actual chemistry (without spending a long time building up…

Yikes. Closure is something you do — not something you “get” from someone else. You should have just taken the paragraph that appears under “What to do if your ex doesn’t want to talk to you” and deleted everything else.

I have some amount of resentment about being an only child (especially now that my parents are getting older and I’m bearing the full burden of figuring out their care) -- thank you for the reminder that having a sibling doesn’t necessarily mean they’d be more help than hurt!

Plan a vacation! I have pretty significant seasonal depression and we usually take our big international trips in October-November. Anywhere near the equator or in the southern hemisphere will be lovely, and a lot of northern hemisphere destinations are fine too, if cooler. Doing travel planning, learning a new…

This is completely wrong and off-the-wall advice. Why are you telling people this? For white-collar jobs, especially those that are tech-related, it’s generally standard to have a no-moonlighting provision in employee PIIAs (proprietary invention and assignment agreements) and other onboarding documents new employees…

Can we also please add the point that most women will not have visible abs? Even if your abs are very strong, most women have a high enough body fat percentage that the ab muscles won’t be visible (even if they are relatively thin). Encouraging visible abs as a goal is just another way to hold women to impossible…

When it comes to music, this is such a weird take. Yes, streaming content can disappear, but you can buy non-DRM’d MP3s from places like Bandcamp or artists’ own websites, and you own it forever and it doesn’t take up physical space. As long as you’re mindful about using off-site backup services like Backblaze (I use…

A better suggestion is to make steel-cut oats overnight in a slow cooker. Put in your favorite fruit, brown sugar, and maybe some cinnamon, and you can wake up to delicious oatmeal!

The FDA does not have to approve sales of food products (like Pink Sauce). It has to approve new food *ingredients* (which caused some issues for Impossible when it sought approval for its meat-free burgers, which included a new, lab-created ingredient that makes them taste exactly like meat), but presumably this is…

“life hacks no one would ever use” is the central premise of at least 50% of Lifehacker posts though

I also hate cruises, but I think the most important part of this piece is applicable to any retirement decision (and something not everyone considers): Most people’s happiness is dependent on having a community of people available for in-person interaction — what community do you want around you when you retire? If…

Absolutely yes. And you can set the “notifications” to just be a little numbered badge on the app, not a noise or other “alert,” so when you choose to pick up the phone, you can just look to see if you have a new email/text/etc., but it doesn’t distract you if you’re not actively looking at the phone. 

We had to cancel our large Aug. 2020 wedding and significantly downsized to a COVID-safe, outdoor wedding in May 2021 with about 30 of our closest family and friends. I knew one friend’s wife had a baby due around this time, so I made sure to let him know that we would love to have them there, but completely…

Yes. I barely cook, but I eat a lot of hardboiled eggs, and it’s worth the price of the Instant Pot for me JUST for the perfect hardboiled eggs. The shells literally just slide right off in a single piece most of the time. 

Not sure why you jumped from “you’ve never met” to “you’ve been on one or two dates”... the scenario that’s missing there is really the most common: You met online, and went on an initial face-to-face meetup for coffee or a drink. If there’s no connection, it’s absolutely OK to just not contact them again. In my…