Новости за 16.07.2018

A few years ago I drove from California to North Carolina for Christmas with my dog. I had originally planned to fly for our month-long visit, but at 22 pounds, my pooch ended up being a bit too heavy to legally fly under my seat in his carrier and I wasn’t willing to fly him as cargo. And so: #FatTucker and I went on…

The best way to get your kids into Legos is to hand them a tub of Lego bricks and say, “Here, go wild.” But eventually, they may want to think even bigger and work with more bricks than they own. This free tool lets them build virtual Lego models with about 10,000 different parts, and then purchase the bricks to…

It’s good to recognize what’s good in your life (even, and especially, when it seems like the rest is terrible). But if you express that in the form of gratitude journals, prayers, or meditation, you’re sort of making that feeling a solitary one. What about the people in your life you’re truly thankful for? Couldn’t…

Some Sonos speakers are finally getting support for Apple’s latest wireless streaming technology, AirPlay 2. Whether you’re want to blast your favorite Netflix movies or rock out around your house, this update lets you connect your speakers to your iOS devices. Here’s how to get started:

If you’re a big Amazon shopper—and pay an annual fee to bask in the company’s services—happy Prime Day! You’re going to see a lot of deals today, because just about every website in the world is tracking, organizing, and shoveling Prime Day items your way.

We all need protein, but meat isn’t the only place to find it. People who swap out animal protein for plant-based alternatives often end up eating healthier diets, but there are a few things you need to know before assuming that plant protein is always healthier.

Most bread is good, but not all bread is good breakfast bread. Though toast is the standard—and biscuits and English muffins are both exemplary—fried bread might be the best bread for breakfasting, particularly hungover breakfasting, both in terms of taste and ease.

If you’ve just about saved enough for a down payment, how much do you need for all the extra expenses that come up in the home buying process? And is reducing your retirement contributions in the short term worth it? That’s what we’re thinking about this week.

If you’ve just about saved enough for a down payment, how much do you need for all the extra expenses that come up in the home buying process? And is reducing your retirement contributions in the short term worth it? That’s what we’re thinking about this week.

You want your dog to be happy, or at least you want it to chew contentedly on a toy without annihilating it—because then it moves to the shoes. Here’s some options for your personal Fido the Destroyer.

I don’t wish that I’d finished college. I dropped out one semester early, for exactly the kind of media job that I’d hoped to work toward after graduating. So why have I had the same dream for years, where I’ve gone back to school for one last semester, moved away from my wife and into a dorm, and I’m already late for…

We all hit a slump near the beginning of a fitness program. Not at the very start, when we’re excited to get going—more like a few weeks in. It may take six weeks to notice more muscle or better endurance, but how do you get through that time without losing hope?

Ever since his daughter Emma was in elementary school, W. Garth Callaghan would jot down inspirational quotes and bits of dad wisdom onto napkins and slip the notes into her lunchbox. It became their special thing, their way to connect. He wanted to make sure Emma could read a note from her father every single school…

Windows: The phrase “package manager” sounds a bit ominous, but if you’re smart, you’ve already used one to outfit your Windows PC with all the basics: Ninite. The site couldn’t be any simpler. You pick the programs you want, it creates one installation file for everything, and double-clicking on it installs…

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Charmaine Johnise may be best known for VH1's Black Ink Crew: Chicago, but she also knows her way around the kitchen (as well as the tattoo parlor). She stopped by to show us an ingenious method for peeling garlic that takes just seconds, and doesn’t even get your hands dirty.

Niagara Falls is one of the world’s top tourist attractions. The name applies to an American city, a Canadian city, two American waterfalls and one waterfall that straddles the international border. Millions of people power their homes from those waterfalls. People ride boats under them, ride barrels over them, and…

Netflix has been mysteriously quiet about the new docuseries Dark Tourist from New Zealand journalist and filmmaker David Farrier (July 20). Farrier made his name in the U.S. for exploring disturbing corners of the internet—see his haunting 2016 documentary Tickled and this creepy exploration of kids being exploited…