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In 1973, the Supreme Court decided in Roe v. Wade that a Texas state law restricting access to abortion was unconstitutional. If that decision were to be overturned by a future Supreme Court case (something anti-abortion advocates are working toward), states could once again enforce such laws.

Using a “dark mode” on your favorite website, app, or operating system feels great. It’s perfect for dark rooms or airplanes, when you need to conserve your battery a little, or you’re just tired of having sore eyes from staring at a screen for hours.

There are a bunch of great apps you can install on your Mac—no question there. Separating amazing apps from must-have apps is the hard part, and we don’t want you to spend hours analyzing the Mac App Store (or scouring the web) to find the very best and most useful apps. We’ve made a list of champions across four…

Michael Pollan has been writing about the the intersection of nature and culture for over 30 years. He may be best known as the guy who summed up his principles for eating thusly: “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.” He is the author of several books, including In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and The…

If someone you care about goes missing, it’s up to you to help authorities by filing a report, giving them important details, and keeping them up to date as the situation develops. This is information you should know, but hopefully never need.

There are some skills you hope you never need to use, but having them could be a matter of life and death: welcome to bleeding control.

Adding frozen fruit to cocktails to keep them cool is a pretty common practice, but some fruits are simply more chill than others. For fruity cubes that will actually keep your beverage cold for an appreciable amount of time, you want to reach for melon.

Welcome to your June Book Club open thread. Any and all thoughts you have on Mary Roach’s Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife are welcome here. Please just remember, this is strictly for fun—a lot of the topics touched upon in this book (religion, death, pseudoscience) are contentious, but, in the words of Fox News…

I disliked many things about living in Florida, but my main complaint was that I could never quite cool down. For three-quarters of the year, going outside rendered me absolutely useless (because I’m a pale and pasty nerd), and taking a “cooling” shower didn’t help that much, simply because the water never got cold …

Sha Sha Chu is the Android platform tech lead at Pinterest, the site that lets us keep all our favorite inspirational quotes, Instant Pot recipes and potential paint colors for the guest bathroom in one tidy place. Her first years of motherhood haven’t been easy, but she’s managing to make it all work. Here’s how she…

If you have a kid, your kid needs to eat and so you need a highchair. Sadly, most highchairs suck. The trays are hard to clean and get gross, or they are monstrously expensive and make preposterous claims (Really, Stokke Tripp Trapp chair? A grown kid is going to want to sit in this? Why? Why would they not just use a…

Windows: Even if you’re the world’s biggest Microsoft fan, you have to admit that Apple’s “Quick Look” feature for macOS is pretty convenient. If you’re such a purist that you haven’t even touched a Mac in the last decade or so, here’s a brief introduction: You click on a file. You press the space bar. A preview of…

How long does it take for your credit score to rebound from a “soft inquiry?” That’s what Tiffany wants to know for this week’s Money Monday:

All right, freaky people. For Heat Week, Hack Your City is going to Black Rock City, the desert site of the annual Burning Man festival, where nerds and hippies camp out, make art, take drugs, and give everything to each other for free. This year will see the 33rd Burning Man. Whether you’ve gone since the beginning,…

Netflix didn’t stack its lineup with bingeable fare for the mid-week holiday, so you’ll have to content yourself with stalwarts from your queue if you’re planning to be an A/C hermit this 4th. (I’ll be diving into Mindhunter at long last.)

Do you really know how to cut broccoli? How about a Kiwi?

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