Новости за 04.04.2019

The waste has been scrubbed away and the nominations are dry: These are our readers’ five favorite dish racks. As always, check out what everyone had to say below, then be sure to vote at the bottom of the post.

Ever skeptical of booking an AirBnb because of its terrible reviews? (Small kitchen! Bad location! Not enough toilet paper!)

The past few years have brought us a number of exciting new food-based holidays ranging from National National Pizza Day (February 9th) to National Beer Day (coming up April 7th!). While we can all (hopefully) agree that these aren’t exactly real “holidays” they do often equal real savings on whatever the day is…

Earlier this year, after watching the entire season of Tidying Up With Marie Kondo with the rest of clutter-prone America, I had one impassioned takeaway: Boxes. I needed those storage boxes.

In Japan, eating ramen is a near goddamn religious experience.

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Since the karate craze of the 1970s, countless armies of kids have punched, kicked, and yelled “hi YAH!” at strip mall dojos and community center martial arts classes across America. Martial arts training fosters discipline, encourages physical fitness, and gets your kid out of your hair for a couple of hours a week.…

A native speaker and a non-native speaker walk into a bar.

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Rhiannon tells me that the kid she nannies used to collect disposable latex gloves. This started when he was around two. Any time he’d see latex gloves—at the doctor’s office, at nursery school, in a random first aid kid mounted to the wall—he’d ask if he could have them. He preferred the “blue glubs” but the “kinda…

Hello all you fiery sex-buckets, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column to pivot entirely to Fortnite.

The next time you get an unexpectedly high medical bill, don’t assume you have to pay it off in full. We’ve written before about what to do if you get a surprise medical bill and how to check your bill against your explanation of benefits; now, Sarah Kliff at Vox explains how you can challenge medical bills—and win.

Procrastination may be the reason you’re reading this post, but the reason you’re procrastinating in the first place might actually be anxiety.

I am fully aware of how this sounds, but I only eat homemade mayo. It’s partially a budget thing and partially out of convenience—even in large quantities, mayo is incredibly cheap and easy to make—but more than anything else, it’s about flavor. Homemade mayo will always taste fresher and just plain better than…

For your lil bookworm, Amazon’s offering an awesome Kindle bundle, packed with with an ad-free e-reader, a cover and a two-year warranty, for just $60. This particular model lacks a screen light, so you’ll need to turn on a lamp to keep reading.

Where do you see yourself in five years?

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We as a society waste a ton of food, by some accounts 40% of everything we produce. It takes a lot of money, time, effort, water, and fertilizer to grow the fruits and veggies we throw away. A few companies are trying to help by selling boxes full of misshapen produce that they say would otherwise have gone to…

A few years ago, I went on a business trip to Scotland with journalists from other parts of the world. On the trip, we used WhatsApp to stay connected, which encouraged the participants to stay in touch via WhatsApp as well, especially in the form of group chats.

The DIY possibilities are endless with this discounted Chalkboard Paint from Amazon. Fancy up your mason jars, create a mini chalk board, or inspirational quote frames, you’re only really limited by your imagination (and the 16.5 ounces of paint) here.

Sometimes, when you’re out and about in the world, you may find that it would be really helpful to have a tape measure.

Habitat loss is a major factor in the decline of insect populations around the world, a trend that one group of researchers has warned could bring about the “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems.” For instance, the monarch butterfly population has fallen 99.4 percent since the 1980s—a precipitous decline that…

Android: Microsoft is currently testing a fun new feature that allows you to import data into Excel by taking a picture of it—preferably a data table and not, say, your cat. That won’t do anything.

Dan Levy is best known right now for his portrayal of David rose in the beloved hit Schitt’s Creek, about a once-rich family living in the town they bought as a joke. Levy is also the series’ showrunner and creator, and he has some advice for how to amp your creative talent.