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Gifts for your friend who needs to chill out

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Just breathe.

2018 has been pretty overwhelming. Do what you can to make your friends feel comforted.

They work 60 hours a week, have half a dozen side-hustles, and never, ever cancel plans. These gifts will appeal to all five of their senses, and will hopefully help…

How to cook a turkey that actually tastes good

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Keep your bird from being sad and dry.

Nothing ruins Thanksgiving like a dry, tasteless turkey on the table. Here's how to make your bird moist and delicious.

Updated 12pm—Here are the best Black Friday deals currently on the internet

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This list will be updated through Cyber Monday.

Despite retailers overeager advertising—which now seems to stretch Black Friday all the way to Nov. 1—Thanksgiving week remains one of the best in the year for good…

NASA's new Mars lander is in for 'seven minutes of terror' on Monday

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the planet mars

InSight will tell us about the planet's interior, but it's got to stick the landing first.

On November 26 a new mission called InSight will attempt to enter the thin Martian atmosphere and land in a region called Elysium Planitia.

The curious case of the electric carving knife

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electric knife

This Thanksgiving, consider plugging in your knife.

Electric knives seem cheesy. And to be honest, they basically are. But with the right one, you can cut meat into pretty slices.

How to eat less this Thanksgiving

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thanksgiving dinner food

You can enjoy food-related holidays and still eat a reasonable amount.

Whatever the reason, sometimes we want to avoid our basest urges—that is, to eat and eat and eat until no more pie can possibly fit inside our bellies.

How to eat as much food as humanly possible this Thanksgiving

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Get stuffed.

Filling up too fast on a holiday meal means you won’t manage to grab seconds or thirds of all the best dishes. You need to maximize your food intake—here's how.

Dark mode is easier on your eyes—and battery

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Apple OS mac dark mode

Why user experience designers are going gray.

Dark mode is an increasingly popular accessibility option, from Twitter to Reddit to MacOS. But achieving the perfect grayscale site isn’t easy.

The kilogram has a new definition

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antique scale and weight

A physicist explains why and how we redefined a basic unit of measure.

Scientists around the world have spent nearly two decades discussing how the kilogram could instead be defined in relation to constant measurements of nature. And now…

NASA's 2020 rover will search Mars for signs of life

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a rover on the surface of mars

And now we know exactly where it's going to poke around.

Was the red planet home to life? Thanks to the Mars 2020 rover's new target, we might find out soon.

Carving up the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line's most common questions

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turkey thanksgiving

No one seems to know how to thaw a turkey in America.

Every year, around 100,000 people call the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line to ask their most burning question: how the heck do I thaw this thing?

The best tech for people who appreciate practical gifts

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best tech gift ideas

Genuinely useful tech for the pragmatic people in your life.

When you’re a kid, practical gifts are the worst. Sure, you needed those pens for school, but you asked Santa for Nintendo or a Ninja Turtle, not office supplies. They…

The CDC says everyone needs to toss their romaine

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a head of romaine lettuce next to a bowl of chopped lettuce on a wooden table

And don't buy more.

We don't lightly advocate for food waste, but with the holidays approaching, an E. coli outbreak of unknown origin is nothing to play around with.

This new 'ion drive' airplane flew straight out of science fiction

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ionic airplane

The quiet propulsion system has no moving parts.

The plane's "engine" has no moving parts.

6 tricks that might keep you from getting a hangover

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alcohol wine

Maybe.

After thousands of years of getting wasted, humans still aren't exactly sure what causes hangovers.

5 Thanksgiving foods that are not safe for cats and dogs

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Hold the turkey skin and fatty gravy—your pet will thank you later.

A lot of ingredients that might show up in your holiday spread (or unguarded trashcan) are harmful to pets.

Termites built themselves a landfill the size of Great Britain

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A man stands in front of a large termite mound

The insect architects have been building these trash heaps for 4,000 years.

Termite mounds cover a huge area in northeastern Brazil, but no one lives inside. Now researchers think they know why.

The top 5 things that could send you to the hospital this Thanksgiving

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an ambulance on a busy road at night

Spoiler: Stop frying frozen turkeys.

Follow our tips so you end up with a fat stomach and not a fat hospital bill.

No, turkey doesn’t make you sleepy

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overeating and drinking

But it may bring more trust to your Thanksgiving table.

Tryptophan is off the snooze-inducing hook. But researchers in the Netherlands suggest it does have a different psychological effect.

What not to do on Black Friday

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Five mistakes that will sap your money and your sanity.

When you hit stores on Black Friday, you want to get the best value for your money. To do that, you'll need to avoid the most common shopping mistakes.
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