They’re staples on every American dining table and the requisite ingredients in virtually every European cuisine, so inseparable that polite society dictates they always be passed together. Salt and pepper are the undisputed champions of condiments—but how did they get so popular?
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It’s four in the morning and you’re stuck in your hotel room, bored out of your skull but wide awake. Thanks jet lag! That’s the price you pay for changing so many time zones in a single airplane ride. Here’s why it happens, and how you can prevent it from ruining your trip.
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The horrors of New Coke have not been easy for the American public to forget. We do not handle change well, especially when it comes to the brands that we’ve been conditioned to love. But did New Coke really taste that bad? And likewise, is the new Yahoo! logo really that atrocious? And is iOS7 really the flaming train wreck of a redesign that some folks are making it out to be? Or is the problem not within the product, but rather, within ourselves?
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You’re out on a date. You’re hoping to impress your companion and come off as a worldly gentleman or gentlewoman, but the bar menu is chock-full of alien ingredients. Your choice is simple: Get the one with fernet.
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Last week’s announcement that the new iPhone 5 will include a fancy new fingerprint scanning security system
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Say goodbye to "slide to unlock." At today’s press conference, Apple introduced the new iPhone 5S with a biometric lock it claims will revolutionize mobile security. Here’s how it works, and what it means for you.
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President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15th, 1865, mere hours after John Wilkes Booth inflicted the mortal gunshot wound, but his body had to survive a 19-day train ride across the country before being laid to rest in Springfield, Ill. And thanks to a recent discovery by a Union surgeon, the president looked as serene when he arrived as when he left. Death is never pretty, but we sure can come close.
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Deep water and the unprotected human body don’t play well together—like, at all. But what if there were a way to get around the body’s chemical limitations, a means of deep diving without the bends or lengthy decompression? Actually, there is. And we’ve almost figured out how to do it without killing ourselves in the process.
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Even as the body of evidence of cannabis’ potential as a potent medical precursor grows (especially with the development of CBD-rich strains), smoking it is not without long-term side effects. And we’re not just talking about munchie-induced weight gain, either. A number of recently published studies suggest habitually getting high not only kills your motivation, it might even alter your brain chemistry. Specifically, the part that makes you want to get off the couch.
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