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Thanksgiving Turkey (Getty Images/mphillips007)

How to properly defrost a frozen turkey

Michael La Corte
(Rocky Luten / Food52)

How to clean cookie sheets

Caroline Mullen - Food52
Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other emitting gravitational waves, a prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity (Getty Images/Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library)

Gravity: The final frontier

Matthew Rozsa
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

How NASA is going back to the Moon

Troy Farah
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Increase in medical cost (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why are insulin prices so high?

Matthew Rozsa
Eddie Redmayne in "The Good Nurse" (JoJo Whilden/Netflix)

Netflix's serial killer nurse true story

Joy Saha
Sunset over crashing ocean currents (Gordon Scammell/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

'Water paradox' solved by microdroplets

Nicolás M. Morato - The Conversation
(Alpha Smoot / Food52)

So, what's the best way to store flour?

Zola Gregory - Food52
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(Ty Mecham / Food52)

How to fix drafty windows before winter

Camryn Rabideau - Food52
Mastodon app logo is seen in the Android store displayed on a mobile phone screen. (Photo Illustration by Davide Bonaldo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Should you join Mastodon?

Alison Stine
Red, white and blue donkey-shaped cookies are laid out for voters by members of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party at the Bryn Athyn Borough Hall polling station on November 08, 2022 in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Is distributing food near polls legal?

Joy Saha
(Rocky Luten / Food52)

How to cut every type of cheese

Marissa Mullen - Food52
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President Ronald Reagan, campaigning for a second term of office, smiles during a rally speech at the California State Capitol the day before the 1984 presidential election. (Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Rap, Reagan and the 1980s

Stefan M. Bradley - The Conversation
Gourds at the farmer's market (Getty Images/BruceBlock)

Why do pumpkins have warts?

Matthew Rozsa
"The Watcher" (Eric Liebowitz/Netflix )

The true story behind "The Watcher"

Joy Saha
Smoke enveloping a man's head (Getty Images/davit85)

Does pot really make your memory worse?

Troy Farah
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Protesters rally against a mask mandate, many showing support for US President Donald Trump, in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 22, 2020. (BRIDGET BENNETT/AFP via Getty Images)

Are conservatives really more heartless?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Grimacing businessman looking at computer screen (Getty Images/Westend61)

Why are security questions so dumb?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
An unwrapped pat of butter on its wrapper (Hussey, Clinton)

Wait, you can actually freeze butter?

Ashlie D. Stevens
Holiday Maple Glazed Turkey Dinner (Getty Images/Lauri Patterson)

What is Canadian Thanksgiving?

Joy Saha, Ashlie D. Stevens
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Yellow push pin in the center of blue push pins with their spike turned to the yellow one (Getty Images/loongar)

Strangers explain my autism to me

Matthew Rozsa
Raccoon (Getty Images / Mykel Leddel / EyeEm)

Experts: Beware the shy raccoons

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Rocky Luten / Food52)

Prep your pantry for hurricane season

Chelsea Brasted - Food52
(Rocky Luten / Food52)

A time-honored Jewish New Year tradition

Chaya Rappoport - Food52
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