Новости за 11.02.2022

Everybody loves a good mystery, and some internet users have taken that to the next level. Sleuthing forums and online crime-solving groups have emerged across the web, letting ordinary people help solve high-profile cases.

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Quick, how do you hold your phone? Is the bottom of it resting on your pinkie, while you cradle the back with your index, middle, and ring fingers, and your thumb does all the scrolling? Alas, like the many other seemingly easy, intuitive things we do, it is wrong.

When you’re contemplating having children, you might conjure up a certain image: Well-behaved children playing nicely and taking turns on the swing in the backyard, or family movie nights where everyone agrees on the movie, or family dinners where everyone eats what you serve without complaint. Once you actually have…

My most looked-forward-to appetizer at any casual party is pigs in a blanket. I expect to see them at least three times a year—Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve and whatever Super Bowl party I attend. If they’re missing, I’ll have something to say about it. These petite bites blend sweet, buttery,…

Video games have a reputation for frenetic action, but there is a whole clasee of simulation games that fly in the face of that conventional wisdom. They don’t put you in an imaginative situation, hand you unlimited power, or raise your adrenaline by creating life-or-death conflict. They aren’t exciting. Instead,…

Baseball might be the American pastime, but our version of football is a distinct cultural phenomenon. As much as the sport itself reflects our values, football movies go a step further, allowing filmmakers to craft and coax a straightforward story out of a game that can be chaotic and unpredictable.

Baseball and…

Last month, we warned you about a major security flaw affecting Apple’s Safari browser. This flaw potentially allowed hackers on one website to steal your personal information from other open sites, which is, you know, bad. After months of delay, Apple finally patched this gaping security breach, just in time for…

Living in the city doesn’t mean you can’t ever leave the city.

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For the longest time, a Nintendo generation meant one console and one handheld. The Game Boy alongside the NES. The Game Boy Advance next to the GameCube. The Nintendo DS and the Wii. In the Switch, Nintendo combined console and handheld into one, seemingly ending the need for a traditional mobile Nintendo system. But…

I have a new item for your to-do list: Make a better to-do list. As I’ve written before, I’m a huge proponent of tracking all the little details of your life with spreadsheets. I would never dream of dismissing the mighty pen and paper, but spreadsheets offer the ability to organize every corner of your life with much…

This week, young people are posting puzzling videos about housework, finding naked men in the trunks of their cars, and virtually riding horses together. It’s a strange and wonderful world.

If you frequently keep running out of storage space on your computer, it’s past time to take just a few steps to sort your problem out. Many of us tend to accumulate tons of junk on our computers, and while you might think to buy more storage, you should also consider just taking a few steps to teach your computer…

The vast majority of umbrellas are panic-purchased from drug stores or randos on the street during a sudden rainstorm. Therefore, the vast majority of umbrellas are purchased after conducting exactly zero research. And that is how we end up with a collection of ragged, cheap umbrellas that collapse into a useless…

In the United States, school sex ed classes don’t really educate you about sex; most of the time, they’re just trying to scare you away from doing it at all. In the process, it’s easy to pick up misconceptions, or to be subjected to straight-up lies. So we’d like to clear the record, and help you un-learn some of…

Oh, laundry. Dreaded fucking laundry. While looking at a basket full of freshly folded threads for the whole family is an enormously satisfying—if mundane—accomplishment, getting there is often a slog through procrastination, days of using the basket as a closet, and lots of heavy sighing.