How to ripen a rock-hard avocado in 10 minutes

My eyes have been terrible since grade 4, so I use a lot of "dark mode" apps, to try and avoid squinting at my laptop so much. But for some reason, it didn't occur to me until now to see if you can do dark mode on … PDFs. You can! Of course. I'm super… READ THE REST

Engineering at Home was created by Sara Hendren and Caitrin Lynch at Olin College of Engineering, and features tons of DIY accessibility projects that offer engineering solutions to help people adapt to their environments. For example, these personal sandwich-grabbing tongs: Or these eating tools that don't require fingers to hold them: Or a reading board that holds down a newspaper/book… READ THE REST

I know Sarah Cooper from her hilarious lip-syncs of Trump's incoherent babbling. I did not know that she was also the author of the hilarious 2016 book 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings. Cooper announced that she has a new calendar based on the book. Here are some sample pages: READ THE REST

Sometimes, you'd really rather just boost the temperature in your bedroom or home office by a few degrees without firing up your central heating and paying to pump that heat throughout the entire house.  In that case, you just need a portable heater that can wrap a cocoon of warmth around a relatively small, contained… READ THE REST

Earlier this month, stargazers were dazzled by a rare celestial event as The Great Conjunction offered a view of Jupiter and Saturn huddled close together in the night sky. The planets themselves aren't actually in closer proximity to each other, but just the idea of seeing this optical convergence that hasn't been viewed from Earth… READ THE REST

None of us are getting any younger. And while the ravages of time work differently on everyone, there seems to be one area where everyone from seniors down to the way-too-young start feeling discomfort first. Oh, that aching back. A lot of that may have to do with how many of us spend huge portions… READ THE REST