View Original How Not to Cry While Cutting Onions, According to the Experts Everyone claims to have the best way to stop the tears when chopping onions, but which ones are actually the real deal? Food scientists explain how to keep the flavor and cut the tears.
View OriginalWe’ll Embrace Any Excuse to Make Irish Soda BreadA little sweet and a little savory, this bread tastes great with beef stew or toasted in the morning for breakfast.
View OriginalSourdough Is Having a Moment... AgainSome people never stopped baking. Others just want to show off their crumb shots.
View OriginalStore-Bought Sauce Is the Secret to Not-Boring, Healthy Weeknight MealsThere’s no shame in opening a bottle, dumping it in the pan, and calling it a day.
View OriginalPostgres is eating the database worldPostgreSQL isn’t just a simple relational database; it’s a data management framework with the potential to engulf the entire database realm. The trend of “Using Postgres for Everything” is no longer limited to a few elite teams but is becoming a mainstream best practice.
View OriginalVeni, Vidi, Vici: The True Origin of Julius Caesar’s Famous ProclamationJulius Caesar’s proclamation veni, vidi, vici, better known in English as “I came, I saw, I conquered,” is without a doubt one of the most famous quotations from antiquity.
View OriginalWhat’s the Difference Between Vitamin D, D2, and D3?We all know that vitamin D is a necessary nutrient for good health. The vitamin is important in helping your system absorb the calcium it needs to maintain strong and healthy bones. We also need vitamin D to support various other functions and systems in the body.
View OriginalI'm a chef who's obsessed with my air fryer. Here are my 13 favorite things to make in it.When everyone else was buying air fryers, I held out. I still hauled out my deep-fat fryer and gallons of oil or wrestled with an array of frying pans and griddles.
View OriginalHow We Got Concussions So WrongThe first time Conor Gormally got a concussion, he felt as if he were standing on a ship at sea. A high school soccer player, he had decided to try out something new during his off-season: wrestling. His very first opponent caught him off guard, with a headbutt to the temple.
View Original‘I know someone who played noughts and crosses on one’: meet the top surgeon who burnt his initials on a patient’s liverOn the morning of 21 August 2013, a patient with acute liver failure was on the urgent transplant list at Queen Elizabeth hospital, Birmingham (QEHB). If a donor couldn’t be found within 72 hours, she would die. But she got lucky.
View OriginalHow to Maintain a Healthy Relationship With Someone Who’s DepressedDepression is the most common mental health problem in the world. According to some surveys, about 1 in 10 American adults will experience a major depressive episode in their lifetime. Many more will experience milder forms of long-term low mood, known as dysthymia.
View OriginalOn adapting ‘American Psycho’On Monday 26 February the LRB in partnership with MUBI screened ‘American Psycho’ at the Garden Cinema as the latest in a series of events exploring the art of literary adaptation. Mary Harron, the movie’s writer and director, spoke about it beforehand.
View OriginalThe Top 5 Longreads of the WeekThis story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. When I first started reading this piece, I wasn’t sure whether to be appalled or amazed. Last September, realtor John A. Woodward IV listed 1316 Beverly Grove Place for just under $5 million.
View OriginalHow I Conquered My Podcast BacklogI like podcasts. The problem is, I like podcasts too much. There are so many quality shows out there, and on every topic imaginable, that my queue of podcasts episodes I want to listen to can stack up quickly .