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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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  • newOld English word of the day
    The Old English Wordhord unlocks one medieval word a day, pairing each term with its definition, pronunciation and, often, a manuscript illustration. The site's creator (or should it be wordwyrm?) Dr. Hana Videen frames the project around the fabulou…
    - 56 mins ago 19 Jun 26, 11:32am -
  • newGet smarter on your downtime with lifetime documentary streaming for $130 during Deal Days
    TL;DR: For $129.97 (reg. $999), you can get lifetime access to MagellanTV, an ad-free documentary streaming service with over 4,000 high-quality documentary movies and TV series from around the globe.Deal Days is Stack Social's answer to Prime Day…
    - 2 hours ago 19 Jun 26, 10:00am -
  • newThis Deal Days discount gets you 6TB of secure cloud storage for $190
    TL;DR: Get Drime's 6TB of lifetime encrypted cloud storage, compliance tracking, and collaboration tools for $189.97 (reg. $599) during Deal Days through June 28.Nobody ever deletes anything anymore. Screenshots from 2018. PDFs you'll definitely re…
    - 2 hours ago 19 Jun 26, 10:00am -
  • newNew blue paint under Reflecting Pool already peeling
    The lining of the Reflecting Pool at Washington D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial was painted blue to please Trump: a no-bid $14.7m contract that went to a company that had worked on one of his swimming pools. Within days of the pool being refilled, it was ful…
    - 6 hours ago 19 Jun 26, 6:15am -
  • newCentralize essential accounting tasks with QuickBooks Desktop Pro Plus for $300 during Deal Days
    TL;DR: This 1-year Intuit QuickBooks Desktop Pro Plus 2024 subscription for Windows gives you all the financial tools you need to manage your business in one place for just $299.99 (reg. $536). With Deal Days, the gifts keep coming, and this Quic…
    - 20 hours ago 18 Jun 26, 4:00pm -
  • newIn 1986, a Cameroonian lake released a CO2 cloud that killed 1,746 people overnight
    On the night of 21 August 1986, Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon released between 100,000 and 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide in a single outgassing event. The cloud rose at nearly 100 km/h, then sank — carbon dioxide is 50 percent more dense than…
    - 21 hours ago 18 Jun 26, 3:32pm -
  • newThe ancient practice of mummifying a man in honey to sell as medicine
    According to the Bencao Gangmu, a 16th-century Chinese medical compendium, elderly men in Arabia would voluntarily mummify themselves in honey. The donor would stop eating all food except honey, bathing in it as well, "till after a month his excreta…
    - 21 hours ago 18 Jun 26, 3:26pm -
  • newCow chewing grass through a fish-eye lens becomes strangely addictive
    Watching a cow eat grass probably sounds boring, but this video proves that it can be made into something fabulous. Thanks to the right angle and sounds, this cow video is addictive to watch. My only complaint is that it's not longer. — Read the re…
    - 21 hours ago 18 Jun 26, 3:19pm -
  • newChicago storm hurls rooftop pool chairs into Lincoln Park traffic
    Severe storms in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood sent several pool chairs flying off a high-rise balcony and into the traffic below. The video of the incident shows the lightweight lounge chairs being pushed across a rooftop pool deck by powerful…
    - 21 hours ago 18 Jun 26, 3:18pm -
  • newHoneybee curls up inside closing flower in timelapse video
    This sweet video shows a honeybee curled up inside of a flower bed. The timelapse shows the bee wrapped around the inner part of the flower, as the petals slowly close inward. I can't imagine a more enchanting place to lay down than inside the cozy b…
    - 21 hours ago 18 Jun 26, 3:16pm -

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