You know where it is in your kitchen. It rests comfortably inside a drawer or cupboard. It might be a baking pan. It might be a mixing bowl. It might be a pot or pan. Whatever it is, somewhere in your kitchen[...]
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‘Digital Detox’ Is a Trick. Here’s How to Actually Switch Off.
Switching off can be surprisingly expensive. Much like the smoking cessation boom of the 1990s, the digital detox business – spanning hardware, apps, telecoms, workplace wellness providers, digital “wellbeing suites” and tourism – is now a global industry in its own right.[...]
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Prairie Fare: Food allergies and gluten safety — What every cook should know
“Let’s move the flour to the basement pantry,” I said to my husband. Since one of our family members has celiac disease, food storage and preparation are special safety considerations. My husband has been a grain miller in the food industry, and[...]
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Deepfakes leveled up in 2025 – here’s what’s coming next
Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and full-body performances that mimic real people increased in quality far beyond what even many experts expected would be the case just a few years ago. They were also increasingly used[...]
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Mathematician Shares 10 Festive Brain Teasers That Anyone Can Try
Mathematics is a “science which requires a great amount of imagination”, said the 19th-century Russian maths professor Sofya Kovalevskaya – a pioneering figure for women’s equality in this subject. We all have an imagination, so I believe everyone has the ability to[...]
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Is Social Media the New Big Tobacco?
For years, parents have trusted reassurances that social media companies were learning alongside them—setting guardrails, studying risks, trying to do better. This lawsuit challenges that narrative head-on. Court filings allege that major platforms knew their products were addictive for children, harmful to[...]
Curio |
Is Cognitive Dissonance Actually a Thing?
Cognitive dissonance might be psychology’s most ubiquitous concept—the idea that when our beliefs clash with reality, we’ll twist our thinking to resolve the discomfort. Leon Festinger developed the theory in the 1950s, partly by infiltrating a doomsday cult called the Seekers. But[...]
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Dakota Gardener: Norfolk pine — A tropical Christmas tree
Despite my best intentions, I am always stressed by this point in the holiday season. As a mom, I feel the societal pressure to transform into Martha Stewart to create the ultimate holiday for my family. The only problem is that I[...]
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Prairie Fare: Managing holiday celebrations and cookie temptations
“I see you!” I said to my son. He was 3 years old at the time. His little hand was reaching over the edge of the countertop to a cooling rack. He was sneakily grabbing another cookie. He grinned as he took[...]
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Cleaning Firearms After Hunting Seasons
After a long season in the field, your firearms have likely seen their fair share of dust, moisture, and gunpowder residue. It’s easy to lean them in the corner of the safe and forget about them until next year, but a little[...]
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Goodbye to the Age of the Book
Reading hasn’t disappeared, but its place in American life is quietly shifting. Long, demanding books are giving way to snippets, screens, audio, and video—and with that shift comes a deeper question about how we think, argue, and learn. What once required patience[...]
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What 38 million obituaries reveal about how Americans define a ‘life well lived’
Obituaries preserve what families most want remembered about the people they cherish most. Across time, they also reveal the values each era chose to honor. In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we analyzed 38[...]
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Dakota Gardener: The houseplant you didn’t know you needed — Growing rosemary indoors
Rosemary is one of my favorite herbs. It tastes, smells and looks good. This woody shrub is great for outdoor herb gardens. Able to withstand periods of high heat and drought, it is one of the easier plants to grow. Rosemary also[...]
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Prairie Fare: How can you take a bite out of food costs?
I picked up some food items from the grocery store for some work-related videos and paid for them with a credit card. I needed my receipt in order to be reimbursed, so I carefully tucked it into my purse — or so[...]
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What we eat is making us obese and sick — but science shows solutions are within reach
Kevin Hall reshaped nutrition research in 2019 when his controlled study showed that ultra-processed foods can override appetite and quietly add hundreds of calories a day. His new book Food Intelligence revisits that finding and argues that the problem goes well beyond[...]
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Watch: Why Leftover Pizza Is Actually Healthier: The Science of “Resistant Starch”
Leftover pizza may have just earned a surprising nutritional upgrade. Researchers studying how starchy foods behave when cooled found that pizza crust—along with rice, pasta, and potatoes—develops what’s called “resistant starch.” Once cooled below about 40 degrees, those starches link into chains[...]