Is there anything more frustrating than getting bacon grease on your favorite shirt? Or red wine on your favorite date-night pants? When this inevitably happens, you could give up and give in to the stain, crowning a new, ultimately lesser, favorite shit — or you could go down fighting. We encourage …

These shows explore the origin stories of common phrases and terms, the evolution of language and the biases that affect our perceptions of speech. Source link

Cash-strapped Americans are using their homes to pay down debt and keep up with the rising cost of living. Use of home equity lines of credit — a type of revolving loan that developed a troubled reputation for its role in the 2008 financial crisis — is on the rise …

Donald Trump and Tim Walz are attending college games on Saturday that will draw plenty of viewers in the swing states of Michigan and Georgia. Source link

Basically every major product category has seen massive inflation over the past decade. Every category, that is, except TVs. For some reason, year in and year out, brands compete not only to make the best and brightest but also the best cheap models. The new Vizio 4K TV (its literal …

Remember a few years ago when rumors and leaks predicted that Apple would remove all buttons from future iPhone models? Well, it’s 2024 and the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro show that nothing could be further from the truth. Apple added the Action button last year to the iPhone 15 …

The late-night institution begins its 50th season on Saturday. Here’s how The New York Times and others covered its debut in 1975. Source link

The S&P 500 index has averaged 10% annualized returns during the past half-century, but it’s not that difficult to outperform that target if you invest in a group of well-chosen growth stocks. To give you some ideas, a team of Motley Fool contributors see promising prospects in e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE: …

Two astronauts — one American, one Russian — will launch on a flight that is set to bring the Boeing Starliner astronauts home next year. Source link

Hot on the heels of its PS5 Pro announcement, Sony has once more upped the pre-holidays ante with its reveal of the PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection, on sale November 21. But for some of us, the thought of enhanced ray-tracing and boosted performance aren’t its most exciting proposition. Readers of …