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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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  • newA tick bite can make you allergic to meat, and cases are climbing
    A tick bite can make you become allergic to hamburgers. Alpha-gal syndrome — a red-meat allergy triggered by the Lone Star tick — is spreading so quickly that researchers just held the first-ever scientific conference on it. According to Scientif…
    - 4 hours ago 13 Jul 26, 1:48pm -
  • newThe hoaxter who claimed he could fit a whole movie in one kilobyte
    In 1995, a Dutch television repairman named Jan Sloot claimed he had cracked something impossible: a way to store an entire feature film in a single kilobyte of data, less than the plain text of this post. The Sloot Digital Coding System defied a bas…
    - 4 hours ago 13 Jul 26, 1:36pm -
  • newShe fell out of the sky on Christmas Eve. The jungle was only the beginning.
    Juliane Koepcke survived a plane breaking apart at 10,000 feet on Christmas Eve, woke up alone in the Peruvian Amazon, and then had to do the only thing more impossible than falling from the sky: walk out.Koepcke's survival seems like a fantasy beca…
    - 4 hours ago 13 Jul 26, 1:19pm -
  • newSherpa left for dead on Everest tells his story
    "Hillary" Dawa Sherpa was presumed dead on Everest. His family had begun funeral rites. Then a cleanup crew found him crawling near the Khumbu Icefall.Everest stories either arrive dressed up as triumph: flags, summits, sponsor logos, oxygen bottles…
    - 5 hours ago 13 Jul 26, 12:46pm -
  • newCDs are back because streaming made music feel disposable
    CDs are somehow cool again, which means we have reached the part of the streaming era where everyone misses "owning" music.This video sets up vinyl, CD, and lossless streaming systems side by side, then walks through the hardware and the arguments:…
    - 5 hours ago 13 Jul 26, 12:21pm -
  • newA sugar used in fake tan was found floating in deep space
    A sugar found in raspberries and used in fake tan lotion has turned up in a huge cloud of dust and gas near the heart of the Milky Way, according to the Guardian. The compound, erythrulose, is the first sugar ever detected in interstellar space. —…
    - 5 hours ago 13 Jul 26, 12:16pm -
  • newThe humble bicycle is still hiding a physics mystery
    Everyone knows how to ride a bike. Nobody completely knows why the bike is helping.The old explanation was that bicycles stay upright because of spinning wheels acting like gyroscopes. That is part of the story, but not the whole story. — Read the…
    - 5 hours ago 13 Jul 26, 12:08pm -
  • newIn 1907, a sailor watched the North Atlantic mysteriously change color forever
    For forty years, one sailor knew the North Atlantic by color, smell, light, weather, and the animals that surfaced around him. Then, in 1907, he wrote that the sea had changed — not for a season, not for a storm, but for good. — Read the rest Th…
    - 6 hours ago 13 Jul 26, 11:59am -
  • newFlorence hospital staff are used to tourists collapsing from beauty
    Staff at Florence's Santa Maria Nuova hospital are accustomed to tourists arriving with dizzy spells and disorientation after viewing Michelangelo's David or the Botticellis in the Uffizi. The condition has a name: Stendhal syndrome, a psychosomatic…
    - 6 hours ago 13 Jul 26, 11:52am -
  • newErika Kirk rallies her "happy warriors" against trans people, Muslims, and "whoever else"
    "I don't care if it's a trans, gender confused person, if it's a muslim, if it's whoever else that's standing in front of you that's spitting on you, cussing at you, throwing your buttons everywhere – you are what, you are a happy warrior, that is…
    - 6 hours ago 13 Jul 26, 11:46am -

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