May 12, 2020
How to Wash 'Dry-Clean Only' Clothes at Home
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The Best Way to Update Windows 10 and All of Your Apps
Windows: Updating your computer, and the apps on it, is one of the most basic bits of maintenance everyone should know how to do. And while your operating system should make this easy for you by running most updates on your behalf, there’s no reason to let it have all...
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How to Keep an Indoor Plant Alive
Keeping an indoor plant alive means providing it with what it needs on a long-term basis. Keeping an indoor plant alive means no forgetting about its existence for months at a time. Keeping an indoor plant alive is a sign that you’ve managed to cross the threshold into competent...
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How to Clean Your Oven
I don’t generally think to clean my oven unless I need to pass a move-out inspection or bits of burnt food lurking within it start setting off my smoke alarm. But the longer you put it off, the grosser your oven gets, so go ahead and tackle it right now.
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How to Build a Better Tuna Sandwich
The tuna sandwich will never go out of style, because it was never stylish to begin with. It’s humble, even homely, yet intensely comforting and nostalgic. Tuna salad itself consists of three main components—canned tuna, mayonnaise and some sort of ingredient that’s meant to bring contrast—and the success of your...
LEGO
Try These Mini LEGO Challenges From Master Builders
What’s your LEGO situation these days? In my home, the LEGO have multiplied so much during the pandemic that I had to create additional display shelving in my basement because my son’s LEGO table, dresser, bookshelf and window sills were no longer sufficient for displaying all his favorites. (I’m...
nature
Press Flowers for a 'Quarantine Herbarium'
Herbaria make fascinating time capsules. In a museum or university near you, there’s probably a room with pages and pages of old, large sheets of paper, each with a dried whole plant delicately taped to it. These are the plant equivalents of dinosaur bones or taxidermied wildlife: once-living specimens preserved...
Coffee
Make Cold Brew in Your French Press
Cold brew is a very lazy coffee brewing method, though that does not mean it is a process devoid of pedantry. While I’m sure there are many pieces of writing devoted to optimum grind size and extraction times and temps, I tend to focus on the logistics, such as straining—which,...
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Here's What Shanghai Disneyland Looked Like on Its First Day of Reopening
Disney’s theme park in Shanghai, China reopened today for the first time since January 25, when it became the first Disney property to close as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Theme parks around the world are closed, but everyone is keeping an eye on Shanghai as this new trial...
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Dave Filoni's Thoughts on
The Phantom Menace
Are Must-See
Star Wars
TV
Get ready to never think about The Phantom Menace the same way ever again.
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Samurai Shodown
Twitter Account Walks Back Overly Horny Tweets
Brands these days tweet like they’re your pals, replacing yesteryear’s buzzwords and obvious ads with lackadaisical prose meant to mimic millennial affectations. Sometimes they go too far. Case in point, the official Samurai Shodown Twitter account probably should have reeled it in a bit last week to avoid having to...
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And Now to Take a Big Sip of Water
On Monday, Donald Trump addressed the country alongside a giant banner saying “America leads the world in testing,” saying that “We have met the moment and we have prevailed.” He then clarified that the fight against the virus is not over, but that “We’ve prevailed on testing is what I’m...
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Back to the Future
Reunion Features Timely Sequel Ideas and a Powerful Musical Number
What happens when you reunite the cast and crew behind one of the best film trilogies of all time? Things get pretty heavy.
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