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January 9, 2020

The Chase Sapphire Reserve Annual Fee Is Increasing

Ever thought the high bonuses and huge perks offered by the Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card sounded too good to be true? It sounds like the honeymoon period is coming to an end: The annual fee for the card is going from $450 to $550 this year.

Test Your Trivia Knowledge Using This Database of 'Jeopardy!' Questions

Jeopardy!’s “Greatest of All Time” tournament is in full swing. And if you haven’t gotten your chance to compete on the show just yet, now you can do the next best thing.

How to Find The Best 'Which ____ Are You' Instagram Filters

Which Disney character are you? Which font are you? Which Office character are you? Instagram stories are overrun with filter quizzes, I know. Much like Baby Yoda and that song from The Witcher, these will go away—eventually. Until then, it is kind of fun to see what random results you...

Will it Waffle?

Cook SPAM in Your Waffle Maker

I have always been suspicious of artists who claim they can’t create anything of value while sober. I’ve never found my drunk writing to be any better than my sober writing, but I have to admit that some of my best ideas come to me once my inhibitions have been...

How to Actually #DeleteFacebook

At this point, it almost feels like tradition. Every couple of months, Facebook will find itself embroiled in one scandal or another. Inevitably, #DeleteFacebook will start trending across various social media. So if you’re finally ready to go through with it and cut ties with Facebook, watch our step-by-step guide...

[Updated] This Is the New 2020 Overtime Pay Threshold

If you work long hours, you should get paid for them, right? How about getting time-and-a-half for them? Good news: You might be eligible, per the Department of Labor’s new overtime rule.

Parenting Hacks

What Every Good Lactation Room Should Include

The other day, while chatting in Slack about this pumping hack, a couple of my co-workers got to talking about what does—and does not—make for an adequate workplace lactation room. I decided to ask the experts (the Offspring Facebook Group) what they thought should be included in a private...

How to Peel Pearl Onions and Keep Them Whole

You can buy pearl onions in several forms: raw and in a bag, peeled and frozen, or peeled and pickled in a jar. All have their uses. Purchasing them raw and unpeeled gives you the most freedom, but you have to peel them, and peeling a tiny onion is not...

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Pokémon Sword and Shield Expansions Add Over 200 Existing Pokémon

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The Rise of Skywalker's LGBTQ Moment Is Held Back By the Film's Bland Heteronormativity

Star Wars finally did it. It may have taken over four decades—and at least four of those years promising it—but The Rise of Skywalker managed to depict queer characters in the galaxy far, far away on the big screen. It was...barely even a Baby Yoda step (better than Disney’s other representation...

Let's Debunk Three Myths About Seemingly Illegal Things You Can Do While Driving

As a motor-carriage operator, there’s a lot of laws that must be acknowledged and respected: no open flames in the car, try to keep any raptors or other birds of prey secured while driving, take down your big cardboard sunshade before driving, that sort of thing. While I’m not certain...

We Finally Know Why This 2,600-Year-Old Human Brain Is So Freakishly Well-Preserved

An Iron Age human skull found in 2008 contained an unprecedented amount of preserved brain material, a discovery that has confounded scientists for over a decade. New research finally explains why this brain resisted decay for thousands of years.

How to Be a Better White Person in 2020

Occasionally The Root will interrupt our coverage of black news, opinions, politics, and culture to openly address our white readership. In 2020, we’d like to finally have that oft-discussed “conversation about race” we hear you guys mention so often. To be clear, white people need to have a conversation about...

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