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As a kid in the rural Midwest, I was accustomed to seeing people around me “rescue” injured birds, bring them into their homes, and care for them. The local vet even facilitated this by calling up certain families when a hurt bird was brought into his practice. We considered these birds lucky, Little-O…

In a post-pandemic world, food delivery services like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub have become ubiquitous. And even though we can go back out to restaurants now, it’s hard to deny the convenience of a warm, tasty dinner delivered straight to your door. In an effort to even further entice customers, a handful of…

With memories of (and the fallout from) the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 still painfully fresh for too many families, anxiety is high over recent economic fluctuations. The U.S. economy shrank again in the second quarter this year, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today, and many experts and everyday …

The question “What do I do with these watermelon rinds?” was answered long ago, and you probably already know the answer, especially if you’re from the South. Watermelon rinds become watermelon pickles, and the crisp, kind of flavorless scrap is rendered soft, tangy, and (often) a little spicy. But pickles aren’t the…

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If you’re ever looking for a demonstration of the adage “it’s expensive to be poor,” look at buying a car. If you’ve got your eye on a car that costs $35,000 with all fees included, and you have $35,000 in your bank account, that’s what you pay for the car. If you don’t have the cash, let’s say you put down $5,000 and…

An unusual cocktail ingredient is trending, and it’s not my amarena cherry syrup. (Yet.) It’s cheese. You already love it when paired with a drink, so why not include it directly in your libation? There’s a place in our coupe glasses for both soft and hard-aged cheeses, but you shouldn’t just toss any old cheese into…

In declaring monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organization on Monday acknowledged that currently this outbreak is concentrated among men who have sex with men. The WHO director-general’s statement followed this by saying that “stigma and discrimination can be as dangerous…

Money is a weirdly taboo subject, and many of us made it through our entire educational careers without partaking in any serious money management lessons—undoubtedly to our detriment. A lot of us manage to buy houses and earn and save surprisingly large amounts of income without really understanding anything at all…

When I was 11, I could imagine no more subversive television show than Beavis and Butthead. It looked like a cartoon—you know, for kids!—but focused almost exclusively on stuff that was decidedly off-limits in my household: swearing, watching music videos, hitting my brother in the head with a baseball bat, setting…

Oh, Choco Taco, why did you have to go? Klondike may have discontinued the ice cream novelty but they can’t discontinue my childhood. I will never again have the pleasure of tearing open the thin, metallic, plastic wrapper that cradled the ice cream truck favorite, and that breaks my polar-bear-loving heart. But the…

For most gamers, the PS5 is an easy setup. You plug it into your TV, it figures out whether you have a 1080p or 4K display, and presto: modern gaming at your fingertips. However, those of us who game on a 1440p monitor rather than a TV may be frustrated by Sony’s lack of support for the resolution. Well, pop the…

This Friday, the Mega Millions lottery jackpot is expected to eclipse one billion dollars. And while it’s well documented that winning the lottery isn’t going to translate into a lifetime of eternal happiness, it’s impossible not to daydream about what you’d do with such a life-changing windfall. But before you get…

Some slang terms and buzzwords spring out nowhere to fill a pressing cultural need to talk about a new thing, or to talk about an old thing in a new way, but some seemingly new words are actually older-than-retro and date back hundreds of years. These terms lay undisturbed in ancient tomes until, somehow, they get…

Power outages can range from being annoying to downright catastrophic, depending on the circumstances. With the North American Electric Reliability Corporation estimating that a significant portion of the U.S. is at an elevated risk for power outages this summer, due to above-average temperatures and worsening drought…

A couple of months ago, I found a snack that changed my life. It was only three ingredients—super tart cornichons dipped in crème fraîche swirled with honey—and it was chaotically good.

Have you noticed Instagram kinda sucks now? You open the app, scroll through your feed, and think, “Who the hell are these people?” In its heyday, Instagram was a simple social media app for friends to follow other friends and catch up on their lives with fun photos and filters. Now, you’re being served fake TikToks…

If you’ve been waffling over whether to purchase a Meta Quest 2 VR system, it’s time to make a decision: Meta announced yesterday that the price of the Quest 2 is going up by $100 on Aug. 1. This means you only five days to break out the credit card or be faced with needlessly giving Mark Zuckerberg one hundred…