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The Best Ways to Freeze Any Kind of Fresh Fruit

The Best Ways to Freeze Any Kind of Fresh Fruit

There’s little better than ripe fresh fruit eaten out of hand, but when you have too much to eat before it goes bad, do the next best thing: freeze your fruit. It’s easy and economical—a no-brainer way to extend the life of anything sweet and fresh that’s sitting on your counter, threatening to get squishy…
Your Smoothies Will Benefit From a Little Jam

Your Smoothies Will Benefit From a Little Jam

Some mornings are too busy to allow for cooking, or even chewing. On such mornings (or, sometimes, afternoons) I’ll make myself a protein shake. I keep it simple: a big scoop of protein powder, frozen fruit, water, and a little half & half. That tastes fine, but I recently found myself craving a more intense…
Europe’s major new interplanetary spacecraft has a slight problem

Europe’s major new interplanetary spacecraft has a slight problem

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Enlarge / In this image, the 16-meter-long Radar for Icy Moons Exploration is seen in stowed configuration.ESA It has now been two weeks since the on-target launch of the European Space Agency's 1.5 billion euro probe that is bound for the moons of Jupiter. This process had been going well until the space agency attempted…
Fortune Favors Those Who Add Cheese to Their Smoothies

Fortune Favors Those Who Add Cheese to Their Smoothies

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Smoothies can be a delicious way to drink your food, and there are a wide variety of ways to flavor your own. You can add any combination of fruit, veggies, dairy, or powders to make a shake that works for your palate and goals. While that’s all fine and good, there’s a bit of dairy…
10 Ways to Build a Better Smoothie

10 Ways to Build a Better Smoothie

Photo: Elizabeth Henkenius (Shutterstock)Smoothies should be smooth. Beyond that, there’s a sliding scale, and you need to know how thick or thin you like your drink. Know thyself and you’ll be able to wing it with recipes, nailing the perfect consistency time and again. This will also help you decide the quality of blender you’ll…
Stop Adding Banana Peels to Your Plants (and Do This Instead)

Stop Adding Banana Peels to Your Plants (and Do This Instead)

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Screenshot: Beth SkwareckiTo hear TikTok tell it, banana peels are an amazing fertilizer for your garden due to their high potassium content and the fact that you get them basically for free (assuming that you eat bananas). The reality is a lot less exciting. Nonsensical gardening tips have always been passed around, sometimes by literal…
7 Clever Ways You Can Use Your French Press (Other Than Making Coffee)

7 Clever Ways You Can Use Your French Press (Other Than...

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Photo: Olha Solodenko (Shutterstock)Your French press can be used to make homemade pressed juice from fruits like watermelon, albeit the process is a little more complicated than what you’ll read online. The instructions I found were to put small cubes of fruit into the press, mash to get the juices flowing, then press down the…
How to Wean Your Kids off Juice

How to Wean Your Kids off Juice

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Photo: Shutterstock It probably started as a once-in-a-while treat at a birthday party or out at a restaurant. But once your toddler got a taste of that sweet, sweet juice, bland old milk and water just didn’t have the same appeal. And now, juice is all they want to drink. We get it, kids. We’d…
Facebook is wagering that reveals with cult followings like ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ can energize Facebook Watch and generate millennial audiences

Facebook is wagering that reveals with cult followings like ‘Buffy the...

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Facebook is hoping that a crop of popular '90s shows can beef up Facebook Watch and the company's big bet on TV-like video programming. On Friday, Facebook dropped all 268 episodes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel," and "Firefly" on Watch as part of a licensing deal with 20th Century Fox. Each show has its…

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