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It was 15:37 (GMT) on a Thursday afternoon when we officially ran out of ideas. The request from the editors had been bouncing around for a couple of weeks: We need to write about the clocks going back. We’d groaned and tried to ignore it,…

Photo: Vogdux (Shutterstock)On a recent visit to the Phoenix Art Museum, I kept noticing their garden. There was a long walkway of a variety of white flowers of various heights, and even in daylight, it glowed. When I finally walked outside…

Image: CKA (Shutterstock)ChatGPT is dominating discussions in all corners of the tech world and beyond right now, and it’s easy to see why. Whether you’re interested in artificial intelligence tools or not, you no doubt have come across…

In daylight, my garden is a beacon of color and texture, but when the sun sets, the yard becomes a black hole. Delivery drivers struggle to see the house numbers or find the footpath, and I hold my phone flashlight awkwardly to avoid…

According to the National Fire Protection Associations, there were 51% fewer home fires in the U.S. in 2020 than in 1980. That’s encouraging, but it’s just not good enough for me, America—there are still an estimated 356,500 home fires per…

This coming weekend, nearly everyone in the U.S. will switch from standard time to daylight time. Sadly, the proposal to keep us on the same time zone year-round never went anywhere, so we’ll keep having these “spring forward” and “fall…

 As a normal human being and not an action movie character, you probably don’t spend much time thinking about how to survive life-or-death scenarios. But it’s worth knowing what to do if you’re pulled offshore by a rip current, your car…

According to a Harris poll commissioned for Ally Bank, 55% of those surveyed reported having had a “nightmare neighbor” in the past. I’m sure you don’t want to be thought of as one of those nightmares and end up vilified in a mortgage…

You’re driving down the road at night, and someone flashes their headlights at you—maybe a quick off-and-on, or they flicker their high beams. Or, even more perplexingly, they do this in broad daylight. What does it mean? (And no, it’s not…

A device called Mill from veterans of Nest, the smart-thermostat creator, transforms your would-be kitchen waste into chicken feed.