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A wooden cooking spatula that’s balanced and comfortable to use. Hand‐carved wooden utensils is an area that I was looking to experiment with. Solid, natural wood are my preference because of their durability, safety, and …

Excerpts Southern Reach Read an Excerpt From Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution A new novel in the Southern Reach series—one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time. By Jeff VanderMeer | Published …

I haven’t met a Shilpa Uskokovic recipe I haven’t loved, and her Ginger-Garlic Fire Cod has earned a permanent spot in my regular rotation. At the heart of this easy weeknight meal are perfectly seared, …

On that afternoon when I first learned of Lucinda’s death, it was as if some sort of filter had fallen between me and the rest of the world. The bright September sunlight was suddenly dim, …

I’ve been asked on social media why the US can’t build a Shinkansen-style network, with a specific emphasis on Texas. There is an ongoing project, called Texas Central, connecting Dallas with Houston, using Shinkansen technology; …

If you teach high school or introductory college physics (or just know the subject well), I wonder if you can tell what I’ve done wrong here: OK, well, I haven’t given you a lot of …

If you read the previous article – recapping the events of TetZooCon 2024 – you’ll know that things went well. But what was that cryptic mention toward the end of a tour? Caption: basic ingredients …

Haunted house films in the silent era tended to have a caveat: no matter how spooky or surreal the gags, there were always rational explanations. Buster Keaton’s creepy ghouls in The Haunted House (1921) were …

circular economya few years ago i donated my kinfolk magazine collection (every issue up to vol. 15) to a local coffee roastery & café. yesterday, when perusing the shelves laden with free books at the …

Imagine you’ve set up a shiny new crowdsourcing project. How do you let people who might potentially want to volunteer online know about it? Here’s how we did it for one of our final crowdsourcing …

I listened to Smog’s Knock Knock album through headphones for the first time today it was a revelation. I’d previously only listed to it through speakers at low low volumes. Almost twenty years of living …

“You guys are the same as me,” the supposed billionaire told barbershop patrons in the Bronx.

The website that hosted this review is no longer online so I would like to keep it here. The below review was written when I was sighted. I am fully blind now. Side note, nearly …

$225,000 - Victorian 2.5-Story Circa 1891 |A beautiful and well-maintained Victorian foursquare with two amazing porches, all situated in a picturesque rural Kansas small-town. This well appointed home has been beautifully maintained! The bones and …

I've watched this absolutely delightful talk from Panic's Cabel Sasser a half-dozen times since it was released last week. It's a story of finding an unexpected world inside, of all places, a McDonalds, and the …