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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 56, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)
This week, I’ve been reading about Bill Lawrence’s TV shows and the massively powerful crypto lobby and the wild world of plankton, listening to Ed Helms narrate the excellent Snafu podcast, playing an alarming amount of...
Spaving, where you spend more to save more, is the latest financial trend. But this new strategy is really just an old marketing trick.
Sometime in the mid 1980s, my stepfather was in need of a 15mm socket. At Sears, he discovered that it would cost about $8 to purchase the specific socket he needed. But a 299-piece socket set cost him about $200. He proudly pointed to the 15mm socket in his new set and told us it had only cost him 67¢. This was my earliest introduction to...
One size doesn’t fit all when it comes to getting more done. Here’s how to figure out how you work best.
How do you account for the hours in a day? Even when my workday isn’t consumed by meetings, I often look up and feel surprised to find that it’s already afternoon and I don’t have nearly as many things crossed off of my to-do list as I planned. Distraction is a big culprit. The constant pings of emails and Slack notifications certainly feel like work, but I’m usually left...
I physically cannot choose between chocolate chip and monster cookies.
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"Don't blink. Blink, and you're dead."
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The sheer audacity.
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A lot of these products are under $10, but all of them are under $20... unlike the simple breakfast meal.
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Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system—even between organisms widely separated by evolution.
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Ahead of Game 2, Sabrina Ionescu, Breanna Stewart, Jonquel Jones, and Sandy Brondello expressed a consistent message: the Liberty are ready to move forward.
It’d be hard to overstate how crushing a defeat Game 1 was for the New York Liberty, and at this point, the sequences of events probably doesn’t need to be retold.
But, Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu, and the rest of the Liberty will never forget how the Minnesota Lynx secured the...
The California prison used to house some of the state’s most violent criminals, but has become more known lately for creative pursuits.
The Liberty, an original W.N.B.A. franchise, have been to the finals five times and lost each time. But their fans can’t help believing, again, this year.
The activist Sonam Wangchuk is leading protests to demand more autonomy for India’s remote Ladakh region, which shares borders with China and Pakistan.
When Sandy Irvine went on a pioneering expedition to Mount Everest’s summit in 1924, he and his partner vanished. The recent discovery may shed light on the ill-fated adventure.
Placing a high value on personal growth, millennials and Gen Z appear more likely than older generations to make hobbies and nonessential purchases a spending priority.
I’m taking steps to secure my future in an uncertain time for trans people in America.
The vice president needs to pull out all the stops to get out of her stall.
When the former president attacks immigrants, this is what I hear.
Honorable public servants of both parties upheld democracy after the 2020 election. America is counting on them again to do their duty.
It was also an especially music-filled evening, with Stevie Nicks as the musical guest and Ariana Grande, as host, breaking often into song.
A new film about the show doesn’t mention her. But in many ways her hit sketch series helped define the early vision of Lorne Michaels.