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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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  • newTom the Dancing Bug: The MAGAs swoon over the manliest man they've ever seen
    Tom the Dancing Bug: The MAGAs swoon over the manliest man they've ever seen-> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! JOIN US IN THE INNER HI…
    - 50 mins ago 3 Jun 26, 11:05am -
  • newImagine never seeing a website hosting renewal email again after paying $149.99 once
    TL;DR: Most web hosts treat your website like a subscription. PawnHoster's King Plan would rather take your money once and call it a day. For a limited time, get one for $149.99 you'll only pay once.Running a website is already enough work withou…
    - 2 hours ago 3 Jun 26, 10:00am -
  • newCop fired and arrested after pulling gun on colleague who microwaved fish
    A South Carolina cop was so infuriated by another officer microwaving fish that he aimed his service firearm at him. Michael Debiase, 46, was fired, arrested, and charged with pointing and presenting a firearm at a person.The South Carolina Law…
    - 3 hours ago 3 Jun 26, 9:06am -
  • newPoster of The Birds of Palestine
    John Rooney's The Birds of Palestine is a beautiful collage of avian species residing there. It's available as a print from his Etsy store (and from Shop Palestine, though the store appears to be down today), and the latest in a series: Belgium, Germ…
    - 3 hours ago 3 Jun 26, 8:43am -
  • newWhat happens when the machine keeping you alive dies on vacation
    On her blog, game writer Laura Michet describes what happened when her insulin pump, a Tandem t:slim X2, started failing once or twice a day in the middle of a Santa Fe vacation. She has type 1 diabetes and has worn a pump for 25 years without one ev…
    - 19 hours ago 2 Jun 26, 5:05pm -
  • newPigeons may navigate using magnetic cells in their liver
    A study in the journal Science argues that homing pigeons may read Earth's magnetic field using iron-rich cells in their livers, rather than their beaks or eyes. Researchers wiped out those cells in 34 trained birds; under heavy overcast, none could…
    - 19 hours ago 2 Jun 26, 5:00pm -
  • newIs the AI apocalypse a religion in disguise?
    In his talk "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People," Maciej Cegłowski takes apart the fear that a self-improving AI will bootstrap itself into a god and wipe out humanity — the Nick Bostrom, paperclip-maximizer scenario beloved in Sil…
    - 19 hours ago 2 Jun 26, 4:55pm -
  • newScientists sterilized soil. It kept breathing for six years.
    Quanta's "The Dirt That Refused To Die" follows a French lab that sterilized soil with gamma radiation, sealed it in jars, and watched it keep breathing — taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide for six years, with no living cell left inside…
    - 19 hours ago 2 Jun 26, 4:51pm -
  • newThis HP EliteBook delivers business-class performance for $400
    TL;DR: This HP EliteBook comes with a range of professional features you can depend on and software compatibility with MS Office and other legacy tools for just $399.99 (reg. $899.98).When it comes to finding a device that can handle your workload…
    - 20 hours ago 2 Jun 26, 4:00pm -
  • newThe chemistry behind Garden Grove's runaway chemical tank
    Over the long weekend, a storage tank of methyl methacrylate in Garden Grove, California, started to warm up — and as the chemist Derek Lowe lays out in a post on the chemistry of the saga, a warming MMA tank is exactly the wrong thing to see. —…
    - 20 hours ago 2 Jun 26, 3:50pm -

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