Learn How to Escape a Rip Current With This Handy Illustrated Guide
If you’re planning on hitting the beach, take a look at this handy guide before you dive into the water so you know how...
Temporarily Speed Up a Time Machine Backup With a Terminal Command
Time Machine is a great service for backing up your computer, and by default it doesn’t use much CPU power to do it. That’s...
Invert Your Goals to Find All the Bad Habits You Should Avoid
Sometimes reaching a goal means adding new habits or learning a skill, but other times it simply means getting rid of some bad habits....
Use Leftover Pickle Juice to Make Amazing Bread
Pickle juice is a magical liquid that can be used to jazz up potato salad, brine meat, and even add a salty punch to...
A Physics Professor Explains the Science of Smashing Bricks Without Breaking Your Hand
Few things in life inspire the sort of jaw-dropping amazement as witnessing someone smash bricks with his bare hands for the first time. I’d...
The Onion Omega2 lets you add Linux to your hardware projects
Need a tiny, $5 computer to build a robot that will bring you your slippers, initiate a massage chair session, and pour out your...
Friday Open Thread: Back To School
It’s the back to school time of year, folks! Welcome to the special edition of Open Thread brought to you by the wonderful people...
Quickly Fix Shiny Skin in Your Photos Using Photoshop or Lightroom
Anyone who takes pictures of people on any kind of regular basis has had to deal with portraits or other photos where the people...
How to make your own ‘Han Solo frozen in carbonite’ fridge
Growing up, I can remember spending a lot of time thinking about what it would be like to be frozen in carbonite, the way...
Learn About Your Local Elections Now So You Don’t Fake It In the Voting...
The presidential race is just one of dozens on the ballot this November. The House and Senate are up for grabs, and there are...
