April 11, 2020
Behold the Simple Comfort of a Butter-Baked Onion
Onions are an assertive ingredient, usually used to bring either aggressive astringency or deep, developed umami to a dish. A baked onion, however, does neither, and it still manages to be one of my favorite onions. Butter-baked onions are soft and sweet, with a brothy savoriness that reads almost like French onion soup. It’s a homey, comforting side dish, and it only requires three ingredients.
Deals
Now Is the Time to Buy a Refurbished Mac Mini
If you’ve been pondering the purchase of a Mac mini but hesitating because of the price, Apple is currently making it that much harder to resist the temptation to click the buy button: The company has finally dropped the 2018 Mac mini into its refurbished store, which means you can...
Streaming
How to Watch Willie Nelson Perform Tonight During 'At Home With Farm Aid'
Willie Nelson is hosting a digital version of his popular Farm Aid festival tonight. Called “At Home With Farm Aid,” the show will include performances by members of the Farm Aid board including Dave Matthews, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp.
Games
You Can Get Two Months of Stadia Pro For Free Right Now
The COVID-19 pandemic has many of us spending a lot more time at home, and many companies offering options for things to do while you’re there.
Lifehacker Asks
How to Not Get Lazy in Quarantine
If you’ve found your daily routine upended by physical distancing, you may be tempted to treat every moment as a staycation. It would be so easy to sleep 14 hours, eat junk food, and let your beard grow out.
Social Media
What Is Facebook's New 'Quiet Mode' and How Does It Work?
Facebook is rolling out a new “Quiet Mode” feature for its iOS and Android apps, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. A lot of us are glued to our phones even more than usual right now—thanks, quarantine!—and while apps like Facebook help us stay in touch, there...
Streaming
What to Watch This Weekend, April 10-12, 2020
Looking for entertainment to occupy your eyeballs this weekend?
School Days
Don't Call This 'Homeschooling'
The emails are arriving fast and furious in my inbox: Public relations folks offering up this commentary from a homeschooling expert or that homeschool curriculum to parents who now find themselves doubling as full-time teachers, navigating the new online learning world we’re living in.
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Death Is Infinitely Better Than What We Got
Avengers: Endgame did a lot over the course of its bonkers, audacious runtime. For better or worse, it kind of had to. But trying to do so much, tying together 10 years of moviemaking into a single, only occasionally coherent narrative, inevitably meant that some plotlines just would not wrap...
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Kotaku
Nintendo Says Stop Using Alcohol To Clean Your Joy-Cons
You might have heard there’s currently a global pandemic going on. As a result you might be using things like alcohol and disinfect wipes to clean off your stuff, including your Switch. Nintendo says don’t, at least if your priority is not damaging the system’s finish. For many, it probably...
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Surgeon General Jerome Adams Tells Black People to Lay Off Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs to Prevent COVID-19 Deaths: 'Do It...
It didn’t take long for U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams to dip into personal responsibility talking points—and some other questionable rhetoric—in remarks given to the press today about the disproportionate impact the novel coronavirus has had on black communities and other communities of color.
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Escape Pandemic Dread by Experiencing the Apollo 13 Mission in Real Time
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13, NASA has launched an online experience in which you can relive the events of this harrowing mission as they happened in real time.
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