How to Maximize Your Meal Leftovers

11. Freeze Foods You Would Never Consider Freezing My mother recently told me she eats half an avocado every day for lunch and freezes the other half. “It thaws out beautifully,” she said. If brushed with lemon/lime juice, wrapped tightly, and frozen, browning is minimized, though texture softens. Her tip got me thinking about other…

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Best SUVs Under $40,000

If you think your needs can be met by a smaller or less expensive model, check out our list of the best SUVs under $30,000. Every model comes standard with automatic emergency braking (AEB) with pedestrian detection, AEB that operates at highway speeds, blind spot warning (BSW), and rear cross traffic warning (RCTW), unless noted…

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What Caused the European Power Outage?

The causes of the power outage that left millions in Spain and Portugal without electricity on Monday have yet to be fully determined, though service has now been restored across 99 percent of the Iberian peninsula. Red Eléctrica, the public company in charge of operating Spain’s transmission infrastructure, has preliminarily ruled out a cyberattack, human…

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Best Mattresses for Back Sleepers

The best mattresses for back sleepers, highlighted below, all earned high Overall Scores, which take into account a range of factors that all sleepers desire, including stability and durability. They also all come from brands that received satisfactory to excellent ratings for comfort and owner satisfaction, based on CR members’ experiences with 60,739 mattresses. Most…

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Dating Apps Are Using Role-Playing Games to Fix Your Rizz

I’m given the following scenario: I’m at a friend’s housewarming party and accidentally break a vase that turns out was a gift for the host brought by 35-year-old Caleb, a financial analyst from Annapolis, Maryland. “How will you handle this?” the screen reads. After responding to Caleb—a very eager robot with a deep voice who…

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Anyone Could Forget a Kid in a Hot Car, Research Shows

Diamond says the problem involves two parts of a person’s working memory: prospective and semantic. Prospective memory helps us remember to do something in the future, while semantic memory allows drivers to make the trip from work to home on autopilot, where they arrive without remembering clear details of how they got there. Prospective and…

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