Vibrant, fresh salads are one of my favorite lunches, but I don’t always have the time to stop and make one in the middle of my workday. Traditional, leafy bases can get limp and slimy if you make them ahead, but The Kitchn has come up with five fresh salad bases that stay crisp all freaking week.
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Burner is already great to give a phone number to people
you may not want to have your real number, but its newly announced chat bot, Ghostbot, makes it even better—and safer. Whether it’s a bad date who won’t stop texting you or an annoying match on a dating site, Ghostbot can take care of it for automatically.
Apps can measure how far and how fast you run, but they’re not great at gauging your long term progress. Am I building a habit? Am I getting faster? Seeing your runs on a sheet of paper, with planned workouts next to a brief post-mortem, helps you see your progress. Here’s the template I use.
As the head of TED, Chris Anderson has listened to a lot of talks in his lifetime, and he’s identified the one thing that makes a public talk truly spectacular. In his video, Anderson shares what that is and four tips you can implement to improve your own presentations and public talks.
Being strong and healthy is nice and important, but the reason a lot of us exercise is to look good. These aesthetically-focused exercises won’t make you hot overnight, but in combination with a healthy diet, they’ll give you the best bang for your workout buck so you look good dressed up—or undressed.
We’ve told you all about
the couponing tool Honey, which automatically hunts for and applies coupon codes for your online purchases. The browser extension recently released a new feature that can help you find better prices on Amazon.
Your paintbrushes should be clean and dry when you store them, but getting all that paint out of the bristles can be messy. Rather than use your hands or buy a brush comb, grab a fork to get between those bristles.
I always keep a bag of kitchen scraps—like onion skins, ginger peels, parm rinds, etc.—in the freezer, ready to be tossed in a pot of broth or stock, but now I have one more use for my bag o’ scraps: poached chicken.
Sig Nordal 