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  • Remove a Cork Stuck Inside a Wine Bottle With a Ribbon
    You go to pop open a fresh bottle of wine—maybe you don’t have a proper wine-opening tool —and the cork, or part of it, plummets into the bottle. You’re left with two choices: finish the bottle, or use this handy trick.Read more...
    - 3 Jul 16, 6:00pm -
  • Flamyngo Simplifies Getting Travel Tips From Friends
    iPhone: If you’re heading out on vacation to somewhere your friends or family have already gone, it’s natural to ask for any suggestions they might have for places to go. This usually results in a mess of texts and emails from various people. Fla…
    - 3 Jul 16, 5:00pm -
  • Get Your Game of Thrones Fix With This Interactive, Spoiler-Proof Map
    Game of Thrones fans, you might not know what to do with yourself now that Season 6 is over. This interactive map will help you get your fix until the next season starts.Read more...
    - 3 Jul 16, 3:00pm -
  • When In Doubt, Mimic the Body Language of Others to Be More Persuasive
    Body language varies from one person to another. Trying to follow a set of specific actions to effectively communicate with everyone is bound to fail. If you’re talking with someone one-on-one, mimic their body language instead to be more persuasiv…
    - 3 Jul 16, 2:00pm -
  • This DIY Wood Beer Carrier Even Has a Bottle Opener on the Side
    Instructables user Herbsco built this reusable, good-looking beer carrier out of solid walnut, which probably explains why it looks so good, but even if you don’t have that available, he has everything you need to make your own—and attach a bottl…
    - 3 Jul 16, 1:00pm -
  • Ambient Noise Showdown: Noisli vs. White Noise vs. Rain Rain
    Ambient noise apps drown out distractions so you can focus on your work, or generate serene, peaceful environments that encourage you to fall asleep. But with dozens you can download, it’s hard to know which is the best. Noisli, White Noise, and Ra…
    - 3 Jul 16, 10:00am -
  • A Video and Graphic Guide to 12 of America's Most Beautiful Natural Parks
    There are dozens of beautiful National Parks in the United States, but if you could only see one, this video and graphic guide from Expedia helps you narrow your choices down to 12 great parks you can explore, all of which are known for specific land…
    - 3 Jul 16, 9:00am -
  • Sunday's Best Deals: Fire HD 6, GreenWorks Tools, Weather Radios
    Weather radios, GreenWorks tools, and Amazon’s Fire HD 6 lead off Sunday’s best deals.Read more...
    - 3 Jul 16, 8:30am -
  • This Week's Top Downloads
    Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week.Read more...
    - 2 Jul 16, 6:00pm -
  • Clean Rusty Grill Grates With Some Oil, Salt, and a Potato
    If you don’t grill very often that probably means you don’t clean your grill regularly either. If your grill grates are covered in burnt food and rust, you can get it ready for a cookout with a few household staples.Read more...
    - 2 Jul 16, 5:00pm -

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  • newGive your PC a makeover with Windows 11—now just $13
    TL;DR: If your PC is running slow, the problem might not be your hardware but the system itself. So, why not upgrade to Windows 11 Pro for just $12.97 (reg. $199) and enjoy the return of peak efficiency?What is there to say about Windows 11 Pro th…
    - 14 hours ago 22 Apr 26, 4:00pm -
  • newIn 1884, a doctor ate too much cannabis and his arms shrank to five inches 
    On the morning of March 5, 1884, Dr. Frank Dudley Beane of New York dosed himself with 7½ minims of cannabis indica alongside 22½ minims of ergot, both from Parke, Davis & Co. He was trying to treat chronic pelvic pain. — Read the rest The post…
    - 16 hours ago 22 Apr 26, 1:34pm -
  • new1946 mood chart: know your bad weeks two months in advance
    A scientist described in the September 1946 issue of True: The Men's Magazine kept a chart on his lab wall that looked like a stock graph. The peaks and valleys represented his mood cycle. High weeks, he'd "feel equal to tackling tigers with his bare…
    - 17 hours ago 22 Apr 26, 12:58pm -
  • newA 1946 plan to feed a billion people with sawdust
    Alfred M. Thomsen had spent years at his San Francisco lab trying to grow edible yeast. The yeast grew, but every batch came out terrible. Then one day, a brew that should have been especially nasty boiled over onto his hand. — Read the rest The p…
    - 17 hours ago 22 Apr 26, 12:41pm -
  • newWhat is this weird huge mound in Siberia?
    Deep in the taiga of eastern Siberia stands a 40-meter-high mound of shattered limestone, 160 meters across at its base, with a ring-shaped crown and a smaller peak rising from inside the ring. It weighs roughly a million tons. Locals knew about it l…
    - 17 hours ago 22 Apr 26, 12:22pm -
  • newWhy is a $200 Lego set harder to buy than a $400M machine?
    Rick Lenssen, a data analyst at ASML — the Dutch company that makes the machines that print the chips in every phone and laptop — has designed Lego versions of his employer's $400 million extreme ultraviolet lithography tools. ASML sold 1,355 of…
    - 18 hours ago 22 Apr 26, 11:34am -
  • newShane Mauss's DMT "girlfriend" showed up in his friend's trip too
    Comedian Shane Mauss thinks he's dating a woman in another dimension, and she gets jealous of his real-world girlfriend. The comedian has encountered the same purple dancing figure five or six times on DMT trips, always in the same carnival setting w…
    - 18 hours ago 22 Apr 26, 11:24am -
  • newAtlantic calls missing-scientists panic 2026's dumbest conspiracy
    In late February, retired Air Force Major General Neil McCasland stepped out for a walk from his New Mexico home and didn't return. His wife has said he'd been struggling with brain fog and physical decline and had told her more than once that he "di…
    - 19 hours ago 22 Apr 26, 11:06am -
  • newCoyote vs. ACME trailer runs off precipice, hovers, drops
    Coyote vs. ACME, the forthcoming live-action animated comedy from Warner Bros., ran a strange road to release: shot and animated years ago, it was shelved by WB in 2023 to use as a tax write-off. This led to outrage among those who made it and wanted…
    - 20 hours ago 22 Apr 26, 10:01am -
  • newMake those thumby documents a thing of the past with iScanner, now $26
    TL;DR: Scan your ID, passport, and any other sensitive document once, and get digital access to them whenever needed with this iScanner lifetime license for just $26.There's nothing quite like handing in your documents, only to be told you've misse…
    - 20 hours ago 22 Apr 26, 10:00am -

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