Carrots are one of those vegetables that are often described as sweet, which is why carrot cake makes sense on paper. However, if you’ve ever grazed a crudité platter, you know that carrots are a gamble. The non-sweet carrots take a sharp turn toward bitter or downright soapy, and this is not how you want anyone to describe your cake. Instead of crossing...

When you buy something, you expect to have complete ownership over that object. If you buy a book at a bookstore, you can read it, tear the pages out and make paper airplanes with it, or use it to balance a wobbly table—and no one can stop you. If you buy a house with some property around it you expect to be able to do what you like with the walls of...

While new iPads are always exciting, it was the iPad Pros' M4 chip that stole the show this week. M3 just came out in October, and Apple decides to launch its successor now—in an iPad, of all devices. Still, the chip is here, and is likely what will power Apple's big AI plans this year. Apple touted M4's 3-nanometer architecture, its four performance...

Cleaning, decluttering, and organizing can get overwhelming if you try to tackle everything at once, and getting demoralized will only keep you from doing a good job (or doing it at all). If this sounds like you, you need a plan of attack that will not only help you stay on task, but keep you feeling positive and motivated—so consider the so-called...

TikTok loves a pithy rule for weight loss, and one of those is the 30-30-30 "rule" or "diet" (no relation to the 12-3-30 treadmill workout). As a morning routine, it’s not bad, actually—but as a weight loss hack, it makes bigger promises than it can deliver on. What is the 30-30-30 rule? Even though people call it a “rule,” 30-30-30 is just a routine...

Owning a home can be quite a learning experience. All kinds of things you never had to know about during your carefree days of paying rent suddenly become crucial knowledge, like what a roof system is, or how to identify lead pipes. Another fun term you might have to learn, especially if you have nightmarish neighbors? Something called “external obsolescence.”External...